Training of construction workers: autonomy in the reform of the Jardim Damasceno Cultural Space using wattle and daub

Abstract

This article discusses a pedagogical plan for the “practical training course for the autonomy of construction workers”, which will be carried out during the renovation of the walls of the Jardim Damasceno Cultural Space, with the use of the wattle and daub technique. This article aims to discuss pedagogical processes and teaching methodologies applied to the training of construction workers, which are emancipatory, libertarian, wich promote autonomy and rescue constructive cultures through the practice of the wattle and daub technique, in order to reflect on: the implications of labor relations at the construction site; the socioeconomic dimension of the productive chain of the wattle and daub; and the environmental impact caused by the choice of this technique. For that, reference materials on soil identification and selection were reviewed; bamboo framing technique for wattle and daub; preparation of the loam for wattle and daub; organization of pedagogic construction sites and horizontal work relations; agroecological construction and traditional construction cultures. This work results in a libertarian pedagogical plan that explores the possibilities of a specific construction technique, the wattle and daub, seeking the formation of civil construction workers who are autonomous, free artists, subjects of their own production and existence, inserted in relations of horizontal and non-alienating labor, local production chains and low environmental impact.