O ruído que brota dos muros do Porto: ensaio visual sobre o direito à habitação

Abstract

Framed in a visual and walking sociology, this essay presents and discusses a selection of photographs of protest for the right to housing, captured on the walls of Porto, Portugal, in the last two years. The images show the tensions and contradictions associated with the processes of gentrification and tourism. Of this set, we highlight the diversity of agents, languages, recipients or discursive strategies, as well as the potential for dissemination that these messages have, when transposed to other contexts, such as collective mobilizations or social networks. The double character of registration in the public space is also noteworthy: they are a memory of past claims and an incentive for future struggles. Being apparently silent, these counter-visualities produce noise, changing the urban landscape and driving social and political transformations.