Projeto Cingapura: o sentido da casa e do morar na interface exclusão/inclusão social

Abstract

The present dissertation analyses the social inclusion process by exclusion through an urbanizationb program developed by the City Hall of São Paulo city and known as "Projeto CingaPura". Through an empirical research developed in one of the condominium possible draw resident's profiles, identifing their expectations concerning to the project and understanding the meaning of a home and housing through the comparison betweenlhe old and the new one. Concerning to Vygotsky's historical-cultural theory the research sought to compare the elaborated meanings by each individual to the senses of the inclusion proposal developed by the State. The resident's opinions about the advantages and the disadvantages of living in a Cingapura condominium were divergent which indicates that it has been an iIIusion consensus which supposes that changing fisical and spacial patterns should be always better concerning to citizenship. The hypothesis that the Brazilian housing policy has been historicalIy excluding some individuais and that "Projeto Cingapura" is emblematic from a perverse processing of inclusion by the exclusion was proved through the revelation made by the residents that they were still discriminated, which algo suggests that the changing of the material conditions doesn't assure lhe overcome of the prejudice, already inculcated in that population