RICARDO MÉRI – SOBRE A INVESTIGAÇÃO NA CONCEPÇÃO DOS PROJECTOS DE ARQUITECTURA
Sinopse:
A palestra utilizará as definições de investigação e concepção de projectos de arquitectura para apresentar uma revisão das possibilidades de investigação através do desenho. A panorâmica inclui diferentes aspectos como a arbitrariedade e a sistemática na eleição da forma arquitectónica, e também uma avaliação da concepção do projecto como disciplina independente. Mais tarde estudamos a influência do tempo e significado na investigação arquitectónica definindo três aspectos para a avaliação da investigação arquitectónica através da concepção do projecto: relevância, influência e vigência. Finalmente, a palestra apresenta algumas possibilidades e exemplos do que pode ser considerado investigação pelo projecto.
The lecture will use the definitions of research and architectural project design to present a review of the possibilities of research through design. The overview includes different aspects like arbitrariness and systematicity in the election of architectural form and evaluates project design as an independent discipline. We will summarize the influence of time and significance in architectural research defining three aspects for the evaluation of architectural research by the project design: relevance, influence and validity. Finally, the lecture presents some possibilities and examples of what can be considered research by the project.
Ricardo Méri Ricardo Méri de la Maza. Professor no Departamento de Projectos Arquitectónicos da Universitat Politècnica de València (rimede@pra.upv.es). Arquitecto e Doutor em Arquitectura pela Universitat Politècnica de València. Foi professor na Universidade CEU UCH e na Universidade Lusófona do Porto. Director da revista TC Cuadernos e co-director da colecção de livros de investigação ART (Architectural Research Tribune), é autor de numerosas monografias e livros sobre arquitectura.
Faten holds a PhD from the Faculty of Environmental Studies at the Université de Montréal. She is a practitioner, former university professor and author of numerous scientific publications. She has an extensive expertise in space appropriation and governance in vulnerable human settlements, particularly in contexts of migration and forced displacement. She has developed workshops on humanitarian architecture and post-disaster reconstruction in Turkey and Jordan with the Arab Reform Initiative and McGill University, and in Canada with McGill university. She is an associate researcher in Adapto, a Canadian government-funded project that focuses on climate change adaptation in informal contexts in Colombia, Chile, Haiti and Cuba. She is also a member of the Canadian Research Institute on Humanitarian Crises and Aid (OCCAH). She is currently leading projects on homelessness in Montreal and on urban vulnerability in Aboriginal territories at Cérsé, a research center specialised in social innovation and eco-citizenship.
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Hostipitality, place identity and appropriation of refugee spaces
The case of Syrian refugees in Lebanon
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Abstract
With 80 million people uprooted around the world, refuge spaces are coming to be the most visible urban transformations of modern times. These spaces, whose primary function is to shelter, often house refugees for decades. Yet, host states, mostly developing countries, continue to host refugees without adopting comprehensive, long-term strategies for their integration, causing acute political, socio-economic and humanitarian problems. The lack of a long-term solution is explicitly revealed by the conceptions of refugee spaces, often designed as temporary solutions. From a theoretical perspective, while social scientists and geographers have widely documentedthe geopolitical and anthropological aspects of forced migrations, they have neglected the concept of space appropriation and the production of place identity. Indeed, their classification of space/place are often based on dichotomous conceptualizations and differs from refugees’ lived experiences.
This research examines refugee spaces through the lenses of power, culture and space. It provides new evidence on the appropriation of these spaces through refugees’ social, economic and political practices, their interventions on space, and their perceptions of their new living environments. It also examines the impact of the strategies adopted by the international community, host governments, humanitarian organizations, and local communities.
