Doubting the City: a Pedagogical Experience of Readings and Appropriations of Contemporary Urban Spaces

Abstract

This article presents a pedagogical experience gestated and developed within the course of Architecture and Urbanism of the Centro Universitário Senac, in the disciplines called “Integrative Projects” that deal with the city and the relations between its inhabitants and urban spaces. Disciplines that propose to the students that they think, that reflect, that they experience the city and all its contradictions. Experiences based on concepts such as walking, body, everyday life, otherness. More than reports of such pedagogical practices with their heterogeneous results (which in essence are of little relevance to the proposed reflection). The propose of this paper is to present a possible pedagogical cartography, seeking together with the students a more subjective critical thinking and incorporated that could become an understanding of everyday reality and a propositive consciousness of a plural and dissensual city.