Preservação da memória e patrimônio cultural: a ruína do Palacete Fellet em Juiz de Fora (MG) e a potencialidade de seu espaço para reflexão

Abstract

This study aims to reflect upon the challenges of patrimonial preservation in Juiz de Fora (MG). For that, it is considered the degradation process of a heritage-listed building currently in ruins, the “Palacete Fellet”, located in the city Center. Under the analysis perspective of the municipality public policies, this research addresses the problematic situation created by the speculation and verticalization process on the urban landscape. This situation affected the preservation of some of the public assets and aggravated the devaluation of others, such as the palacete, consequently creating “empty spaces”. From the reflection upon how to recover the memories of a no longer existent or ruined immovable property, the present study points out to arts and handcrafts, specifically the freestyle embroidery, as a possibility to visually reconstruct the devastated heritage-listed buildings. The research methodology is based on a qualitative category of bibliographic reviews and documentary and propositional researches to bring as result an intervention with the freestyle embroidery, that contributes to a symbolic visit to these lost cultural monuments. The main consulted authors were Daniel Reis (2009), Ana Carolina Lewer Delage Lemos (2017), Larissa Ribeiro Moura (2017), Pierre Nora (1997) and Carina Folena Cardoso (2015).