INTRODUCTION

The 21S seminars will be realized with the intent to promote debates and exchanges among the scholars involved in the Thematic Project: Architecture and urbanism towards the 21st century social space: segregation strategies and appropriation tactics and the academic community. The objective of these seminars is to characterize the critical inflexion that marked some of the debates on architecture and urbanism after neoliberalism’s ideological crisis (2008) and the period denominated as “post-critical”.

We intend to accomplish four seminars: 21S#1 (2018), 21S#2 (2019), 21S#3 (2020), 21S#4 (2021). The seminars will be open to researchers, undergraduate and graduate students interested in themes related to theory and criticism of architecture and urbanism.

21S#1 THEORIES AND METHODOLOGIES

spatialities and temporalities in the metropolis.

21S#2 INCLUSION AND DIVERSITY

what is relationship between the discipline and social movements?

21S#3 QUALIFYING THE URBAN

methodologies of analysis and design evaluation.

21S#4 CITY AND THE COMMON GOOD

understanding the limits of the city as use and exchange values.

The seminars are related to the core themes of the Thematic Project. In this sense, the empirical strategies related to them shall be explored with more emphasis by the researchers of each university.

Therefore, 21S#1 shall also consolidate a platform of dialogue and an exchange structure that can be the basis of the next four years of this research.

The first proposed seminar has the highlighted importance of providing us with a discussion that may be prolific to our research interests and propositional towards the design of dynamics, relations and goals for the following seminars.

The proposed program involves the participation of Brazilian and foreign researchers. The seminar will be free and open to undergraduate and graduate students and faculty of all educational institutions.

The seminar should entail:

11 foreign researchers [Columbia, Harvard, KTH, LTU, TuDelft, UPM, ETH];
9 Researchers of national universities;
Estimated audience: 200 people;
Final results published in the format of a book;
Recording of all presentations will be made available at the FAUUSP’s and other websites;
Expansion of audiences engaged with Architecture and Urbanism debates

The proposal aims to innovate the theoretic-critical debate of Architecture and Urbanism according to a perspective that takes into account the conceptual and political limits of the disciplinary strategies identified as “post-critical”. While looking at new tools of analysis and reflection, it aims to detect potentially transformative (counter-hegemonic) tendencies, both within disciplinary strategies and appropriation tactics.