Stroll as a critical and propositional approach

Abstract

Thinking space as a manifestation field of different agents implies to consider that, in its dynamic production, there are individuals that own greater or smaller speech power, which are manifested through macro and micro narratives, sometimes segregated, and in other times overlapped, connected, in dialogue. The architect is, therefore, only one of these agents. Over this investigation, the urban settlements are presented as a relevant dialogue moment of these different individuals,meaning an important resistance that tenses the capitalist city and its neoliberal policies. Comprehended as a threshold,the settlements support an interpretation according to which they are, on one side, insecure and vulnerable and, on another, they represent powerful spaces open to the creation. In this tension that begins from its assertion exercise in the city, it is possible to recognize am important resistance, from which several lessons can feed, as they potencialize both the critical and propositional exercise made by the architect and urbanist. The approximation exercise is explored in two settlements in Fortaleza, and it is also investigated how the come and go among theory, practice and dialogue resulted in important lessons related to the city.Thus,we intend to propose a transition from architecture and urbanism as an end, so that they can be understood as a way: being a way to the construction of an open design process; or being a way to enable discourses and dialogues among different narratives.