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The implementation of mega-events in Rio de Janeiro city such as 2007 Pan-America Games, 2014 Word Cup, and 2016 Olympics has considerably impacted its urban and social fabric. Thus, as a result of social and spatial ruptures which has been produced in the city during the process, some of the low income communities have been threatened, and others have been evicted during the implementation of the facilities linked to the mega-events.
This paper deals with a case in the Vila Autódromo community, located in Jacarepaguá region in Rio de Janeiro, which, since 2007, under different justifications, is at risk of being dislodged.
The main objective here is to present part of the building process of what has been called as “conflictual planning” as an instrument to support the Vila Autódromo community struggle in order to avoid to be evicted. In order to achieve that, we recover part of their struggle history, which has lasted approximately 30 years, focusing the different positions that have been taken by different social actors involved in the conflicts related to the right of staying in the land they live.
Considering the main demands of the community involved in the process, a group of students and researchers from two federal Brazilian universities expanded the collective resistance, exercising a way of planning that combines different kinds of knowledge aiming at a popular project that could effectively represent an important tool for their struggle.
This case study is particularly important due to its symbolic and political dimensions in the dispute among conflicting city projects.