An Experiment in Transdisciplinary Systems Mapping: Architecture and the Water-Energy-Sanitation Nexus in Brazil

Autor(es)

de Castro, Marco Aurelio Soares ; Valencio, Norma ; Iossifova, Deljana ; Santiago, Cristine Diniz ; Ziglio, Luciana ; Valencio, Arthur ; Pugliesi, Erica ; Goncalves, Juliano Costa ; Cheung, Eric ; Sengupta, Ulysses

• Tipo de documento: Artigo Científico
• Fonte: ARCHITECTURE-SWITZERLAND; v. 4, n. 1, p. 16-pg., 2024-03-01.

Resumo

Urban environments contain and are part of a wide range of interconnected complex systems, including infrastructures and services. Rapid and often uncontrolled urbanization triggers distributive inequities and environmental injustices, posing urgent and interconnected challenges that demand inter- and transdisciplinary solutions. Despite architecture's commitment to 'sustainability', its central role in urban systems and their dynamics as well as the discipline's intersections with other disciplines remain relatively little explored. In this contribution, we focus on the water-energy-sanitation (WES) nexus in Brazil, drawing from transdisciplinary workshops, scoping reviews, and systems mapping. We propose a framework for the analysis of urban nexuses. This framework builds on transdisciplinary systems mapping for the identification of nexus components, nodes, and their interconnections. Our findings indicate that a nexus perspective allows us to identify challenges in urban nexuses, productive intersections with the knowledge and approaches from other disciplines, and possible solutions in collaboration with non-academic stakeholders. We advocate for an expanded professional field and a redefined sense of responsibility within the discipline. (AU)

• Processo FAPESP: 22/09136-1 - Consecução dos Objetivos de Desenvolvimento Sustentável no contexto de enfrentamento de desastres (CODeS): ferramentas computacionais na análise integrada de dados
• Beneficiário: Norma Felicidade Lopes da Silva Valencio
• Modalidade de apoio: Auxílio à Pesquisa - Programa eScience e Data Science - Regular
• Processo FAPESP: 19/12553-0 - Centro Brasileiro para o Desenvolvimento na Primeira Infância
• Beneficiário: Naercio Aquino Menezes Filho
• Modalidade de apoio: Auxílio à Pesquisa - Programa Centros de Pesquisa em Engenharia
• Processo FAPESP: 23/07235-5 - Construção e implementação de aplicativo para coleta de dados sobre desenvolvimento infantil
• Beneficiário: Arthur Lopes da Silva Valencio
• Modalidade de apoio: Bolsas no Brasil - Programa Capacitação - Treinamento Técnico
• Processo FAPESP: 19/17507-7 - Para o Brasil Saudável: Nexo Urbano Sustentável (Água-Energia-Saneamento) na Bacia do Rio Tietê
• Beneficiário: Norma Felicidade Lopes da Silva Valencio
• Modalidade de apoio: Auxílio Organização - Reunião Científica