PERCEPÇÃO AMBIENTAL NOS ESPAÇOS DE CULTURA: CENTRO HISTÓRICO DE CUIABÁ

Abstract

The present work textualizes ideas imbibed from the human world experience, experienced by their authors in researches from literature and field, perspectivated by the phenomenology of Maurice Merleau-Ponty's, which concept of spatiality was lend, in dialogue with the phenomenology of landscape, described by Tuan, categorialized as topophilia and topophobia. The work shows the non-turn offable connection that perception has, while a basis driving force of the realization of the synthesis of human experience lived-and-tasted, reflexively, in life-world phenomenon, which provides direction for the educational project of personal live and collective. The non-existent gap between the exterior and interior space. All spatiality suffers humanization or dehumanization which comes from the non-turn offable relations established between self-other-world. The historic center of the city of Cuiaba, capital of State of Mato Grosso (Brazil), with emphasis on squares, constitute itself a locus that creates an opportunity of look over the nature of human perception and express it in language. These revisited dimensions resignify space(s) and its implications for the environmental education, especially, to the educational dimension of tourism. The activity of immersion outer space, intentional encounter with the world, it is imperative to settle accounts with the time and space within himself, within the space of culture. These dimensions involve new theoretical and methodological tasks to the physical environment, human and spiritual. Key words: Environmental Perception. Phenomenology. Cultural Spaces. Historic Center of the City. Topophilia. Cuiabá (State of Mato Grosso).