Coarse epistemes: Skill, craftsmanship and tacit knowledge in the grit of the world

In the words of Dutch archaeologist Maikel Kuijpers, craft is “a way of exploring and understanding the material world”. This definition suggests that craftsmanship can be understood as a touchstone for a theory of knowledge in material productions. By exploring the role of skill in the processes of making and its epistemic correspondence, I...

One and Many Details: Considering the Contingencies of Building as Empirical Evidence for Architectural Pedagogy

The study of built objects has always played a key role in the education of the architect. At the earliest stages of training most of us sat in front of buildings and drew them, trying to capture their overall features and minute details. What appears simple is, in fact, an extremely meaningful exercise. It presumes that drawing an existing...

Política de Remoções em Belo Horizonte

Este texto foi motivado pela parceria do MOM, entre 2014 e 2015, com os crupos Cideade e Aleteridade, e Pólos de Cidadania, ambos da Escola de Direito da UFMG, do desenvolvimento da pesquisa Direito fundamental à motadia adequada: novos olhares sobre os impactos e efeitos das políticas públicas de assentamentos e reassentamentos em aglomerados...

Trabalho, Receituário e Alienação na Arquitetura: Apontamentos Críticos à Prática do Arquiteto

The essay seeks to point out contemporary phenomena of de-creasing autonomy by the alienation of everyday skills that, together with architectural drawing, promote the architect and urbanist’s figure to that of an expert, thus imobilizing its practice in a heteronomous form. It aims the exposition, with the critiques of Ivan Illich and Sérgio...

Urban Predation: The symbolic economy of the Pixo

This essay proposes an analysis using the “symbolic economy of predation” to provide new perspectives on the question of pixo. For this, pixo will be considered as any act on walls, building facades, asphalt or monuments rejecting the hierarchical separations between writing, scribbling, painting or graffiti imposed by the art system and other...

The Tangible Presence of Human Labor in Architecture

This essay aims to show that in many of the theories that fundament material culture and architectural experience, labor is implied in the constitution of material and, although seldom directly addressed, it is a determining dimension of materiality. From the Vitruvian and Renaissance treatises and Gottfried Semper to John Ruskin and the Art and...

Aspectos da conceituação do trabalho em Marx: a alienação como abstração concreta

This article covers a question relative to the double determination and dialecticityin the concept of labour, as developed by Marx from the Hegelian dialectics. It seeksto demonstrate the ontological significance of the concept to the Marxian thought,a key element in his critics as a path to self-conscience and as a territory foralienation....