METHODOLOGICAL GUIDE TO MAP USES OF PUBLIC SPACE IN THE CITY OF AMBATO FROM THE SOCIAL REPRESENTATION OF DESIGN

Abstract

This article analyses the the theoretical perspectives that allowed the construction of a methodological guide for mapping the uses of public space in “La Matriz” borough in Ambato, Ecuador. The proposal is to specify the concepts that allowed the making of a methodological perspective aimed at reflecting about the relationship between inhabitants and space in a specific context. A review of the contruction of the methodological guide is carried out through a multidisciplinary approach of the ethnography, thus producing a dialog between theorical & practical views for the analisis of social imaginary that are present in the relationships between the inhabitant & his space. Through the construction & application of the methodological guide it was posible to understand the community rhetoric & organitional practice as two categories that feed historically in their relationship, evidencing the presence of class practices and discourses in the construction of public space.