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Digital spectacle and its impact on architecture and the architectural image
No full textWe live in a world of digital excess, and architecture is a part of this: on the one hand, abundant and instantaneously available references, and on the other, a medium that takes an enormous amount of time to be finalized.
As some argue that architecture is too slow for the digital revolution1, the recent resurrection of the collage appeared as a viable strategy to critically reclaim architecture’s place: one that, unlike simulations of binary realities, was to be a raw and ambiguous like an “open project” even if computer-simulated.
Due to its success, however, the collage has been taken over by the market for its “arresting novelty”. As a commodity, it compensates for architecture’s slow pace: faster to produce and consume, less related to the disciplinary process of the conception, more evocative, and less ideological.
To some, the “collage era” represents the return of a more prosperous, stronger profession2, as others claim they are blank postcards of a post-idealistic age, one where built quality rarely holds up.(...
Replacing urban identity: the disappearance of Sha’biya Al Safa Neighborhood
No full textThe meaning of identity of a place is manifested in its genius loci, or rather in the hidden spirit of the place itself. The immanent value of the built environment represents its physical and materic sedimentation, as well as the collective memory testifies to the emotional stratification of the space itself. The spatial component involves not only the sphere of urban form and public spaces, but also the private dimension of domesticity. It is a process of accumulation of the historical memory of a place, through fragments of shared community life as well as of family and domestic identities. In this sense, the theme of loss of urban historical memory in newly developed contexts, in cities such as Dubai for example, appears relevant. Furthermore, how in such areas the built environment is suddenly altered by the dynamics of real estate.
This contribution documents, also by means of photography, the case of the disappearance of Sha’biya Al Safa Neighborhood (also known as Sha’biya Al Shorta). Neighborhood built to house the low-income local population, as part of the social housing program wanted by the late Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan since the end of the 1960s. These photos, taken in September 2018, document the state of the neighborhood shortly before its demolition, when its inhabitants had already abandoned this place. Instead, the pictures taken in February 2021 describe the current state of the area: an infrastructured tabula rasa ready for real estatedevelopment.
The images narrate the loss of daily living in the neighborhood. They speak of a community, which has now disappeared, characterized by a vibrant everyday life with cultural values rooted in the place and tradition. It is a visual testimony that identifies the urban peculiarities of the neighborhood in its morphological and typological dimension, as well as reveals the traces of the family life of its inhabitants. This case documents, once again, how urban transformations based on demolition and new construction inevitably lead to a zeroing of the original social identity and of the collective memory connected to the place itself
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No full textIt will be difficult to understand the full impact of the digital on architecture without the internet as its privileged territory; they are, to some extent, inseparable, in the same way that it become inseparable in how architects consume and produce architecture today. Although not always organized, the internet has become architecture’s biggest archive, one made up mainly of images.
Using Luca Galofaro’s montages and their dissemination as a paradigmatic example of a contemporary architectural practice that takes full advantage of the internet as a medium, this text problematizes both the conception and consequences of the digital image on the discipline. The former, how images are consciously constructed, as a kind of graphic hupomnemata for the one who “ingests” the work of others and incorporates it into his own; the latter, the effects to be constrained to a specific medium. If one of the internet’s characteristics is the ability to support simultaneously redundant and contradictory discourses propagating the same type of content within each “niche”, how can we bypass the mashed-up state that the discipline has become? Is it possible through the fruitful use of the digital medium or are we expecting more than what it has to offer?
More than taking sides for or against the internet, perhaps we may ponder one that does not consider it in terms of exclusivity – pixel vs. paper or analogue vs. digital –, but in complementarity with each other, taking the advantages of different media in order to build a more consistent discipline, one that is able to go beyond temporary nodes of aligned interests
A formação inicial de professores e o ensino de língua materna: Contextos contemporâneos
Get PDFThis article analyses the current normative context of the Portuguese teachers’ qualification as the native language in Brazil, investigating the approach given to multimodality, to multiliteracies, and to native language in recent national regulations for initial teacher training and basic education. It is a qualitative documentary research based on thematic categorical and cross-sectional analysis of results. From the dialogue between thinkers in education and language sciences, it appears that the treatment of Portuguese as a native language presupposes that teaching must be corroborated by the sense that this conception brings together. For this, it is necessary to expand the dialogue between the normatives to improve the qualification of Portuguese teachers, its teaching performance, the appropriation of linguistic multimodality and the multiliteracies constituting national multicultures and cultural innovations in the teaching and learning processes.Este artigo analisa o contexto normativo atual da formação de professores de Língua Portuguesa como língua materna no Brasil, investigando especialmente a abordagem dada à multimodalidade, aos multiletramentos e à língua materna nos recentes regramentos nacionais da formação inicial de professores e da Educação Básica. Trata-se de uma pesquisa qualitativa documental cujos procedimentos calcaram-se em análise categorial temática e transversal de resultados a partir dos achados do estudo e teoria embasadora. À luz do diálogo teórico, constata-se que no tratamento da Língua Portuguesa como língua materna se mostra oportuno a ampliação do diálogo entre os normativos recentes, consoante a legislação basilar de educação brasileira, de modo que seja possível às licenciaturas em Letras aprimorarem a formação dos professores de Língua Portuguesa no Brasil, preparando-os na sua atuação para a apropriação da multimodalidade linguística e dos multiletramentos no processo de ensinar e aprender.
Recebido: 2/06/2021Aceite: 20/10/202
O diagnóstico de transtorno de déficit de atenção/hiper-atividade (TDAH) na vida de uma criança: Um estudo de caso
Get PDFThis article aims to analyze the impacts of the diagnostic of Attention Deficit HyperactivityDisorder (ADHD) on the life of a child. Initially, it approaches how ADHD appears in psychiatrymanuals. Then, it criticizes such concept in the light of the discussions around childhood medicalization Hereupon, it presents methodological aspects of the research done in the city of Salvador, Bahia,Brazil, through a qualitative case study. Taking advantage of intense field research, the followingprocedures were adopted: participant observations, document analysis, and partially structuredinterviews. The long interaction with the child and her environment made it possible to realize thather journey is crossed by a complex and delicate process as of the constitution of ADHD diagnosticthat impacts on a medical and psycho-pedagogical intervention that imprisons school and familyperception. Against these obstacles, the child insists on being, provoking on the other new perspectivesabout her way of living. It is expected, with this article, to contribute to the critical debate about themedicalization of childhood, favouring understandings that respect the diversity that it envolvesO presente artigo tem por objetivo analisar os impactos do diagnóstico de Transtorno de Déficit de Atenção/Hiperatividade (TDAH) na vida de uma criança. Inicialmente, aborda como o TDAH comparece nos manuais de psiquiatria, tecendo críticas a tal concepção, à luz dos debates em torno da medicalização da infância. Em seguida, apresenta os aspectos metodológicos da pesquisa realizada na cidade do Salvador, Bahia, Brasil, por meio de um estudo de caso qualitativo. Valendo-se de um intenso trabalho de campo, foram adotados os seguintes procedimentos: observações participantes, análise documental e entrevistas semiestruturadas. A longa convivência com a criança e seu entorno tornou possível desvelar que sua caminhada é atravessada por um processo complexo e delicado a partir da constituição do diagnóstico de TDAH, do qual decorrem intervenções medicamentosas e psicopedagógicas aprisionantes de sua vivência escolar e familiar. Contra essas amarras, a criança insistia em ser, provocando a todos a lançar outros olhares para suas formas de viver. Espera-se, com esse artigo, contribuir para o debate crítico acerca da medicalização da infância, favorecendo compreensões que respeitem a diversidade que ela comporta
The power of imagination: An interview to designer Hans Thyge, from Design, Interior & Branding Studio Hans Thyge& Co based in Norsminde, Denmark
Get PDFFátima Pombo (FP) and Hans Thyge (HT)
FP The motto of your Design Studio is that ‘it all starts with the power of imagination. Every design should tell a story, on its own and as part of a bigger context’. What is the meaning for you of such statement? HT Let me tell you a story that enlightens the meaning you are asking for. Many years back I was driving down to the Cologne furniture fair with two employees. We were driving late evening and started to discuss a new competition we were invited to take part of. It was about an ergonomic chair made of plywood for the contract market. In the night we discussed advantages and principles. After some talks back and forth, we suddenly discovered an interesting static principle, which could move the pivot point of the backrest up in the lumbar area. Immediately we felt that we had discovered something compelling while driving in the dark without pen and paper. The interesting thing was that we had elaborated an idea using our imagination and the spoken language even the matter was about three-dimensional form. The day after I flew to Poland after a long day at the fair, and I quickly sketched the principle down on the back of my ticket. The idea remained intact and worked after some experiments with prototypes. We often talk about “The power of imagination” which has become the motto of our small design studio. Design is about being able to imagine and sense stories and elements carried out in materials, with colours and surfaces. Theoretically there is no difference between writing a book, composing a piece of music or designing a chair. Whether it is the pencil or the very sophisticated 3D modelling programs we are using to elaborate our ideas, it always comes down to our ultimate ability to see and feel the object for our inner eye. Without that, designing becomes a superficial act dethatched from our personal life. A genius violinist once was asked where he got the ability to play so beautiful and he answered: “It is the sum of my life and all I see and experience everyday”. Our power of imagination is a sum of the cultural input we are experiencing, or in other words all which our senses see and feel through our life. It is not only the capability of playing the notes or designing a chair……the character and ingenuity of the expression is a matter of who we are, which will always be reflected in the things we create.
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Novos modos de vigiar, novos modos de punir: A patologização da vida
Get PDFThe authors make conceptual reflections, based on the real history of some children, on the roots of the processes of pathologization and medicalization of life and the ways in which these processes are articulated with prejudices and intolerance of differences, and with the silencing of questions and of utopias. Inscribed in the positivist paradigm, they contain alienated and alienating concepts about science and knowledge, the world, subjects and life itself; through diagnostic-labels and reports, they have been doubly instruments of violence, either because of the violence they provoke by abstracting the subject and removing life from the scene, or by concealing situations of violence experienced by children and adolescents, constituting an alibi that calms consciences, silences conflicts and exempts everyone from their responsibilities.As autoras fazem reflexões conceituais, a partir da história real de algumas crianças, sobre as raízes dos processos de patologização e medicalização da vida e os modos pelos quais tais processos se articulam com preconceitos e intolerância com as diferenças, com o silenciamento de questionamentos e de utopias. Inscritos no paradigma positivista, trazem embutidos em si concepções alienadas e alienantes sobre ciências, saberes e conhecimentos, mundo, sujeitos e a própria vida; por meio de diagnósticos-rótulos e laudos, têm sido duplamente instrumentos de violência, seja pela violência que provocam ao abstrair o sujeito e retirar a vida de cena, seja por escamotearem situações de violência vividas por crianças e adolescentes, constituindo-se em um álibi que acalma consciências, silencia conflitos e isenta a todos de suas responsabilidades
Encontros entre deficiência, infância e formação docente: Contribuições para enfrentar a medicalização da educação no presente
Get PDFThis work builds a space to problematize a research and extension Brazilian project,developed since 2016, focusing on in-service teacher training on the matter of disability, inclusionand classroom aid practices. The discussions presented emerge from disability studies intertwinedwith narratives related to early childhood education practices from the 2019 meetings’ participants. Aknowledge of experience was acquired through both classroom experiences and demedicalization studies allowing us to question the ways we think about the relations between disability, childhoodand teacher education and to confront the logic of medicalization, by approaching other perspectives.The analysis of school practices shows the strength of biomedical model invading the relationshipbetween adults and little children and, thus, brings to presence the need to challenge the hegemonicview with the social model of disability. This perspective enables us to question the production ofdiagnosis generated before actual encounters with the children. The analysis of the fragments presentedreveals growth, movements, tensions and overcomings. At the end, some questions are presented onmedicalization of childhood in education in pandemic times.Este trabalho constrói um espaço de problematização da experiência de pesquisa e extensão universitária brasileira, desenvolvida desde 2016, para a formação docente continuada acerca de deficiência, inclusão e mediação educacionais. As discussões apresentadas partiram dos estudos da deficiência em relação com as narrativas das práticas de docentes da educação infantil, participantes dos encontros de 2019. A partir das experiências profissionais e de referenciais desmedicalizantes, constituiu-se um saber da experiência para elaborar o encontro entre deficiência, infância e formação docente. Desse encontro, emergiu a possibilidade de problematizar antigos e atuais endereçamentos feitos à educação e a seus profissionais, em uma tentativa de enfrentar a lógica medicalizante. A análise das práticas docentes evidenciou a força da compreensão biomédica da deficiência nas relações dos adultos com as crianças na educação infantil e a necessidade de deslocar esse predomínio com as concepções do modelo social da deficiência. Com essa lente, questionamos a produção de diagnósticos que se antecipam às relações com as crianças. As análises de fragmentos dos encontros revelaram processos de aprendizagem, deslocamentos, tensões e ultrapassagens. Ao final, o texto apresenta algumas questões sobre a medicalização da infância na educação em tempos de pandemia
Discursos medicalizantes na educação infantil: Problematizações em torno da educação especial
Get PDFThis article is the result of a master’s dissertation study that brings medicalizing discoursesinto the daily lives of early childhood education as a central issue, and how special education iscaptured by such discourses. By medicalization we mean the process of artificially transforming social,historical and political issues into medical issues. The text addresses the notion of discourse forFoucault as an essential concept, bringing questions about normalization, subjectivation and knowledge//power relations. In order to discuss the notion of medicalization, we brought authors who defenddifferent theories, such as Moysés and Collares, who are Brazilian references. This paper consists ofa case study that uses the principles of cartography as a tool, and its research plan was a MunicipalCenter for Early Childhood Education of the Municipality of Vitória, ES, Brazil. The theoreticalinvestigative path resulted in two problematization movements: the first one on the medicalization ofsupposed disorders/disabilities, and the second one on the medicalization of the disability condition.The analysis of these movements demonstrates how the medicalization of childhood occurs despitethe consumption of medicines, both through the creation of labels, as well as through the medicalrepresentation present in the referrals for special education of children who deviate from the standards.Este artigo é resultado de uma pesquisa de dissertação de mestrado que traz como questão central os discursos medicalizantes nos cotidianos da educação infantil e como a educação especial é capturada por tais discursos. Por medicalização entendemos o processo de transformar artificialmente questões sociais, históricas e políticas em questões de ordem médica. O texto aborda como conceito essencial a noção de discurso para Foucault, trazendo problematizações sobre normalização, subjetivação e relações saber-poder. Para discussão da noção de medicalização trouxemos autores//as que defendem distintas teorizações, como Moysés e Collares, eferências em âmbito nacional. Este trabalho constitui-se em um estudo de caso que utiliza os princípios da cartografia como ferramenta e seu plano de pesquisa foi um Centro Municipal de Educação Infantil da Prefeitura Municipal de Vitória. O percurso teórico investigativo resultou em dois movimentos de problematização, o primeiro sobre medicalização dos supostos transtornos / deficiências e o segundo sobre a medicalização da condição da deficiência. A análise desses movimentos demonstra como a medicalização das infâncias ocorre a despeito de haver o consumo de medicamentos, tanto por meio da criação de rótulos, quanto pela representação da ordem médica presente nos encaminhamentos para a educação especial das crianças que fogem à norma
