Inventário dinâmico da produção do espaço urbano na UFJF: um instrumento para ação reflexiva

Abstract

The current process of shrinking State investments in social policies (including education) presents itself as a challenge for public universities in relation to maintaining their autonomous operation and funding capacity. It also instigates the quest to highlight their relevance and defend their permanence. The action of designing and maintaining university spaces is assumed to be a relevant starting point for reflecting academically on the performance of educational institutions and their relationship with the cities in which they locate themselves. The intention is to contribute to recovering paths towards the proposition of active research within the technical practice, both in the sense of obtaining didactic improvement and in the sense of improving the territory produced as a result. The research guides itself by the recognition of universities at the crossroads between distinct, contradictory, and conflicting fields (educational, professional, cultural, and research) and by the creation of a systematized record of actions directed to the planning and shaping of the Federal University of Juiz de Fora's territory (inventory) designed to develop a strategy that allows data mapping, action structuring, and future return for further studying (dynamical). Two analytical scales are present: that of a national context related to public policy formulations for higher education and the production of the professional field of Architecture and Urbanism; and that of UFJF's institutional conformation (object of the study). For the transit between these scales to take place, it proposes two databases for data collection and two systematization tools. The first one concerns the understanding of external forces and heteronomies that competed and interfered throughout this process (influencing it) based on the methodological procedure of constructing a timeline. The second, structured by the conjugated operation between data collection at the Pro-Rectory of Infrastructure and Management of UFJF's bidding construction archives and a georeferenced cartographic base (shared between the research and the work team responsible for the making of a new Physical-Patrimonial Master Plan for the institution), studies the evolution of its spatial conformation by observing the organization process of technical work over territory