Pelas mãos do povo: um estudo sobre a circulação de saberes informais e formais na produção edilícia em ocupações urbanas

Abstract

The vision of urban occupations contradicts and prescribes the norms and codes imposed on the processes of production of formal housing and the forms of occupation in the territory of the city, but not for that reason, the constructions produced in these spaces do not present variable degrees of durability, healthiness and safety. The particular path taken by these agents and groups results in a unique spatial experience, open to empiricism, improvisation and the use of various techniques and practices of very peculiar construction and organization, without pre defined formulas, but with an authentic heading. The present work consists of an investigation of the circulation of scientific, empirical and traditional knowledge in the production, planning and spatial expansion in urban areas of informal occupation and how these knowledges are constructed, updated and appropriate to the popular construction that is produced in a self - managed way in the segregated spaces of the city .