Paisagem sonora além da audição: representações sonoras urbanas das pessoas surdas

Abstract

This Thesis deals with deafness under the socio-anthropological perspective, and the general objective is to understand who the deaf subjects are and how they relate to space, especially regarding sonorities: how deaf people feel, perceive, interpret and represent the sounds that surround them. Considering that the architectural and the urban spaces are sensitive spaces that can be perceived, interpreted and represented culturally, the hypothesis of this work is that the deaf person experiences and organizes the existing sounds in space through a sensitive and cultural construction of the soundscape. Thus, this Thesis is exploratory with an interdisciplinary and qualitative approach. The general methodology of the research was organized in two parts: theoretical structuring and case study development. The case study was developed from a semi-structured interview and Commented Soundwalking with deaf people. Based on the results, it was verified that the sounds are interpreted and represented by auditory, kinesthetic and visual reading, but always through cultural means. What is understood by a deaf person as a producer or transmitter of a sound event, will not always mean the same for a hearing person. However, the relativized reading made by the deaf people identifies these elements as a "sonorous sensation” that makes them feel the sounds through their body and mind. From the results of the case study and the theoretical support, it was possible to conclude that there is a correlation of the sound representations experienced by the deaf in their daily lives from a sensitive and cultural construction of a Soundscape beyond the Hearing.