In light of the climate and social emergencies of the Anthropocene, this session proposes rethinking the role of the architect as an agent of territorial transformation and incorporator of futures. More than designing buildings, it is about acting with political and ethical responsibility on urban land, articulating design, incorporation, spatial justice and regeneration. Based on practices that cross architecture, urbanism, activism and real estate development, we seek to bring together theoretical and practical works that express this action: social housing led by architects, regenerative occupations, sustainable retrofit, new methodologies of social impact and approaches that integrate aesthetics, ecology and viability. In this way, it seeks to stimulate critical reflection on professional autonomy in the face of concentrating models, the possibilities of mediating conflicts, acting with innovation and regenerating urban ecosystems. An invitation to think and discuss new imaginaries and horizons, with responsibility and creative power to regenerate what (and for whom) is possible (and beyond the possible).
Presentations:
Katahirine: new Oikos to reforest the imagination
Luciana de Paula Santos
Landscapes of transition: urban regeneration and new ecologies in deactivated areas
Karla Cavallari, Alessandro Tessari and Alessandro Massarente
Every territory is an invention: memory, heritage and the imaginary of the forest
Laura Benevides
Hybrid economies / ecologies: countering territorial violence in the Bekaa
Carla Aramouny and Sandra Frem
A blank sheet of paper: architects as developers of futures
Evelyne da Nobrega Albuquerque, Paulo Almeida and Ricardo Avelino Dantas Filho