Spaces of slums: history and experiencies / Espaços de favela, fronteiras do ofício: história e experiências contemporâneas de arquitetos em assessorias de urbanização

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2007

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The purpose of this explanation is to bring us a critical reflection about the architectural professional practice pointed out to the questions concerning popular housing, especially the social housing in urbanized slums. We started from a historical revision on how the architect plays its part concerning the circumstances of the continuous precariousness of the urban housing, treading a bibliographic and analytical route that starts in the years 1930s and arrives to the present days: approaching the presence of slums in the Brazilian cities, we raise discussions about the practice of the professionals involved with the already consecrate process of urban upgrading of those settlement and also regarding the deficiencies of the performance of the State, that comes gradually betting in compensatory policies to deal with the housing deficit. As a methodological procedure we opted to focusing some recent practices of slum upgrading: the experiences from Dois de Maio and Jardim Olinda centers, both in São Paulo (SP), and Tamarutaca center in Santo André (SP), include in the years 2000s in two different public urbanization programs - the program Bairro Legal, of the São Paulo city hall, and the program named Programa de Inclusão Social (currently Santo André Mais Igual), promoted by the Santo André public power - and from whose urbanity and housing projects participated, respectively, the non-governmental organizations USINA Centro de Trabalhos para o Ambiente Habitado / TEIA Casa de Criação (as partner), GTA Grupo Técnico de Apoio e PEABIRU Trabalhos Comunitários e Ambientais. The field research make us possible to understand either the historical evolution of the professional exercise of the architects in the confront of the slums deal, as the potentialities of the contemporaneous practice transformation, taking into account the politic context that involves the State, social activities, technical activities and the amplest set of the society. From the description of the cases, we look for to argue the current reality of the slums upgrading public policies and their relation with the social rights and the importance of the participative projectin the process under studying. Furthermore, we question the possible dialogues and the mystifications around the relation between popularand specializedknowledge and we try to discuss the technical essenceof the projective experience of the architects as a critical horizon to think the politic contents of the craft.

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cultura profissional políticas habitacionais habitação popular favelas participative project popular knowledge popular housing prática profissional projeto participativo slums up-grading architects saber popular professional practice housing policies urbanização de favelas arquitetos slums professional culture

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