Architecture and urbanism, addressing the social space in the 21st Century: segregation strategies and appropriation tactics

• Grant number: 16/22704-8
• Support Opportunities: Research Projects - Thematic Grants
• Duration: February 01, 2018 - April 30, 2024
• Field of knowledge: Applied Social Sciences - Architecture and Town Planning - Fundamentals of Architecture and Urbanism
• Principal Investigator: Leandro Silva Medrano
• Grantee: Leandro Silva Medrano
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo (FAU). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Pesquisadores principais: Luiz Antonio Recaman Barros
• Associated researchers: Carmen Espegel ; Daniel Koch ; Erik Stenberg ; Gareth Doherty ; José Maria de Lapuerta Montoya ; Lizete Maria Rubano ; Nelson Mota ; Raphael Grazziano ; Tom Avermaete
• Associated grant(s): 20/00706-4 - Collective housing and the city: contemporary strategies for inclusive inhabitation in Brazil and The Netherlands, AP.R SPRINT; 19/06147-0 - Transnational exchanges for a critical and Socially-Inclusive approach to architecture and urban planning, AV.EXT
• Associated scholarship(s): 22/01669-0 - Space and representation in the experience of the Pankararu indigenous people in the city of São Paulo, BP.IC; 22/03732-1 - Collective housing and urban space in São Paulo: Parque Novo Santo Amaro V, BP.IC; 21/03825-7 - Contemporary intervention strategies: the architectural dialogue between urbanization of favelas and re-urbanization of the grands ensembles, BP.MS; + associated scholarships 20/11816-5 - Identification and analysis of counter-hegemonic projects, BP.PD; 20/11918-2 - Collective housing, urban form and evaluation, BP.PD; 20/11917-6 - Learning with the commons: housing for an urban social revolution, BP.PD; 20/04557-3 - Public and private: debate in contemporary Brazil, BP.IC; 19/06635-4 - On Space Theories and Dwelling: a Critical Anthology (2008|2018), BE.PQ; 18/02923-2 - Urban planning regulations and urban form: Sao Paulo in the 21st century, BP.MS; 16/22499-5 - Architecture and experimentation: dialogues between research and typology, BP.DR - associated scholarships

Abstract

The 21st century ushered in a number of new concerns for architecture and urbanism such as a critical review of the disciplines that deal with space conception, subsequent to the ideological vicissitudes of the Modern Movement and Strategic Planning, as well as the new social and economic processes of space production. The critical renewal of these disciplines is necessary in order to continue to fight for an informed and open-minded transformation of the meanings of the city. There were few transformations in Brazilian cities since the beginning of their industrialization and modernization processes. However, from the end of the 20th century some significant advances in terms of urban policy tools have been apparent. Nevertheless, this has not led to a socializing and democratic model of urbanization in Brazilian cities. Going beyond the economic and structural resistances of the dual Brazilian society, this research seeks to explore the severe limitations of Brazilian architectural and urban planning conceptions, with special emphasis on approach. The aim of this research is to understand the urban potential for appropriating new spatial paradigms in projects and urban interventions, defined as promoters of alternative configurations, that is, spatialities that problematize the consolidated relationship between the architectural object and cities. In order to do this, it is important to conduct a methodological-theoretical reflection and a critical analysis of emergent socio-spatial phenomena. These are the two areas addressed by this research. Given the breadth of this thematic project, a methodology involving the wide discussion of ideas on the conditions and possibilities of the contemporary urban space is necessary, as is the inclusion of new urban phenomena in the investigation, in particular, the analysis of their differentiation. Therefore, here, the research, researchers and objects are not limited to the Brazilian context, but count on the participation of other important research centres abroad that share the same concerns and where these discussions are also taking place. The aim of this work is to refine the critical methodology of the built environment, allowing for a reappraisal of the relationship between urbanism and architectural concepts, State and civil society. Its basic premises are the City and its physicality as an essential foundation of socialization in society. (AU)

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

MEDRANO, LEANDRO; BARROS, LUIZ RECAMAN; WILDEROM, MARIANA; GRAZZIANO, RAPHAEL; CRITIC-ALL PRESS. Space and the otherness An anthology. 2022 25TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INFORMATION FUSION (FUSION 2022), v. N/A, p. 10-pg., 2018-01-01. (16/22704-8, 16/21407-0, 17/16322-8, 15/19847-9, 17/26688-0)