urban practice and collective minds
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The community introduces itself…
Urban practice and shared learning: the design process of urbanization of Favelas
Salvador Bahia Brazil
City Planning and Collective
Minds
Salvador
the landscape
The social architecture places a challenge to humanize a part of the city which has been neglected by the urban development
Find solution...with tender Creativity Find solution...with tender Creativity Precariousness and problemsPrecariousness and problems
The use of words...define as we see others, and The use of words...define as we see others, and establishes a quality of relationship/interactionestablishes a quality of relationship/interaction
““urbanize” urbanize” ““Favelas” Favelas” ””precarious settlements” precarious settlements” ““underdeveloped settlements”underdeveloped settlements”
the method
creates spaces for exchanging specific knowledge of the place and the moment.
eliminates the mystifying of the symbolic effect from “experts” strengthning
autonomy and trust of the/and from the community
Process of projet in landscape architecture
Brings forwards the phases:AnalysesSynthesisEvaluationRepresentation
When explored together, these phases provide systematic and hierarchical information in a creative way, prioritizing the most relevant, and visualizing the expected outcome of these decisions
relationship/interaction;authorship; Drawing, letters and expressions
the waysthe waysdweller
Creative Nature:Popular knowledge
Applied TechnologiesConditions in the public administration
The urbanizing experiences in the two Favelas sparked attention in the
activity of the architectural project process.
Such a practice of combined production making it clear how the
dwellers can contribute in the planning of the project in the collective area.
1st challenge...
To optimize the time between politics bureaucracy and community necessities;
2nd challenge...
To embrace tools from the communities on top of architectural draws;
3rd challenge...
enable the collective to create a social and political project.
the project construction building bridges of imagination and
transformation.
Baixa do CaranguejoBaixa do Caranguejo
Rail road1860
Avenida Suburbana 1970Original Urban Nucleos
As a learning practice...place the community as the deciding factor
The sketch as language of the architect Looses its originality within the work of projection because...
.. new shapes and representations surface everyday...
reflectionsreflections......
The architect as the driver of the process:The architect as the driver of the process:
• identify and mediate the disconects identify and mediate the disconects between the community culture and between the community culture and information, against the theory and information, against the theory and legislation, to reach a common ground;legislation, to reach a common ground;
...and the presented experiences expose that the plurarism, the lack of unity, and the local autonomy interact under permanent tension with the governing system.
The relationship between what we see and what we want to understand never fades.
Nagirley KessinNagirley [email protected]@usp.br