Metamorfoses da experiência urbana: entre a modernidade, o arcaico e o contemporâneo

Abstract

This thesis is designed as a narrative, as a way to tell the metamorphosis of urban experience by the presentation of the social, temporal and spacial forms in three historical periods: the archaic, the modernity and the contemporary. The return to the archaic and modernity is a strategy to situate, to experimente and to think critically, by contrast, the problems and potencys that still resonate in the present. This work uses elements of the urban history and theirs aesthetics, epistemological and political relations with philosophy to composse this narrative woof. Firstly, it presents, as a threshold in the beggining of the modernity the first german romanticism, a critical negation within the modernity. Next, it shows the society, the linear time, the main modern transformations (knowledge, seeing and power), the metropolis and the lived experience. After, it gets back to archaic period seeking to think the community, the circular time and the experience until the birth of polis, because the lessons of this period are important. It arrives in the contemporary – thought by ecos and ruptures of the modernity and archaic – trying to composse in a speculative, processual and fragmental way, a mode o exposion of the contemporary urban by the creation of concepts as oceanic time, abyssal community and tunnigs – the contemporary form of urban experience. It still thinks the possibility of a transition in the urban contemporary, between urban-skin to urban-humus, trying to embody a way of thinking beyond the human, so, cosmopolitic. Thus, this work aims to think the problem of urban experierience by modes of telling the urban critically situated in the present, producing modes of do, say and think dissant and necessary within the field of architecture and urbanism.