Entre a cidade planejada e a cidade vivida: o skate e a ressignificação da Praça Antônio Carlos em Juiz de Fora (MG)

Abstract

This study investigates Praça Antônio Carlos, in Juiz de Fora (MG), as a territory of appropriation and resignification through skateboarding. It analyzes the role of the Associação Juizforana de Skate (AJS) in mediating relations between skaters, public authorities, and urban space, highlighting tensions between institutionalization and everyday practice. Based on audiovisual, documentary, and oral sources, the research examines the impacts of the square’s redevelopment, the construction of new circuits of use, the production of material and symbolic traces, and the emergence of events and collectives, with particular emphasis on women’s skateboarding. It argues that skateboarding operates as a cultural practice that challenges urban norms, produces forms of sociability, and redefines meanings of public space, revealing disputes over the right to the city and ways of inhabiting urban environments.