Paper short abstract:

This paper shows the affective forms that configure the city of Caracas, from the way its residents make sense of their everyday life. Thus, we have approached to these aesthetics shaping from diversity of texts: stories, objects and spaces, that embody shapes and senses of our city.

Paper long abstract:

On this paper we discuss the affective forms that shape the city of Caracas, from its own citizen. Hence, from a Social Psychology interesting on how people make sense on their social relations in their everyday life, we have tried to understand from the hermeneutic perspective, those aesthetics configurations that emerge on the daily stories, which are intertwined and lived in Caracas. This study goes hand in hand with authors such as Gadamer (1977), Garagalza (1990) and Ricoeur (2000), whose theoretical and methodological approach has allowed us understanding and interpreting several texts that appeared during the research. Stories, objects, places, spaces and images have emerged from the conversation with people of different ages, diverse social groups, interests and life experiences, as well as pictures, tales and other texts that we collect all over the city, in order to interweave along to them the shapes and sense of Caracas as a meaningful place.