Artesanias construtivas e urbanas: por uma tessitura de saberes

Abstract

Under the perspective that there is an alarming distance between design, construction and use of space in architectural practice, we searched for forms to bring these steps together by cartographing the controversies around the issue, having found the constitution of two groups that approach the matter on different perspectives. The first one is articulated by the ideals of science, market and industry, that is, from hegemonic values. While the second one affirms itself in a sociological perspective, having participative processes as its mean of approach. Despite their differences, we were able to find points of convergence between the two cartographed groups, which conducted to a entanglement towards the matter: they are both somehow linked to States determinations, today a Market-State, and, in both, a stiffening of tenets can be observed. A way out of this deadlock was found among the autonomous and subversive actions that arise despite and beyond the designated intentions of spaces representation, in spite of planning. Inspired in Boaventura de Sousa Santos, we named these actions Urban and Constructive Artesanias, and placed a bet on the transforming possibilities of their mapping. Immersed in this perception, we experimented with architectural practices within the academy that could develop upon these cartographies. Finally, we perceived the need for dislocating a few important concepts towards the tessiture of an open and permanently connectable network, in which constructive and architectural, scientific and everyday knowledge could be constantly overpassed, simultaneously by political and poetic affairs and decisions.