Cities, spaces and health production

Experiences in the psychosocial dimension

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to bring a reflection on the interrelationship between city and affectivity in the psychosocial and cultural historical perspective for the understanding of health promotion from three dimensions: the construction of meanings, sustainability and psychic suffering. The environment as a socio-physical, cultural and temporal construction in environmental psychology and social psychology goes beyond the environment as a background. This is not only what surrounds the individual, but the one who impresses on his subjectivity, which can impact on healthier, livelier and more open societies, or on the contrary generate psychic suffering. The research articulates the abovementioned dimensions by choosing the affectivity category as observation, intervention and analysis by the method of affective maps. We will present results of research developed in the research laboratory in environmental psychology (LOCUS-UFC) that show affective indicators of health production processes in urban environment based on the perception of its inhabitants, evaluating affections that potentiate and / or that depotencialize their action in the City.