Walking and cartographing on the Chuí-Chuy border

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Keywords:

Cartography, Walking, Border

Abstract

We have travelled around the twin-cities located in the Brazil-Uruguay border line, aiming to build and share information about public places found in this contemporary in-between-space. In the case of Chuí-Chuy, a line marks the division-connection that crosses the maps and the urban life of both cities. The methodology used was the urban cartography through exploratory walks along the border line, during in which we collected data in maps, photographs, videos and interviews in order to experience the border in the border. Urban cartography aims to follow processes and lifestyles in contemporaneity, bringing up what the unspeakable in the cities, as a way of composing new urban critiques. Walking, used as an aesthetical and ethical praxis, aims at a body immersion of researchers in the chaotic and complex scenery of a border city. In these urban places, it was possible to find Derrida’s “hostipitality”, a hostile hospitality of a reception that is subject to conditioning. To walk and to cartograph are encounters in opposite directions, a writing of the city that brings up a revolution, a possibility of creation as insurrection of devir in this space-between-border-line. The information obtained makes us question about the political, social and ethical responsibility of architects and urban planners in the unveiling of small and marginal happenings.

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Author Biographies

Eduardo Rocha, Federal University of Pelotas

He is an Architect and Urbanist and Doctor of Architecture. He is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism at the Federal University of Pelotas, and a researcher at the Graduate Program in Architecture and Urbanism at the same university, where he coordinates the research group "City + Contemporaneity". He studies contemporary ways of life, urban and social cartography, walking and activation of public spaces.

Lorena Resende, Federal University of Pelotas

She is an Architect and Urbanist and holds a Master degree in Architecture and Urbanism. Her studies focus on Border Cities, and Planning and Design. She is a temporary lecturer on graphic expression at the Federal University of Rio Grande. She collaborates in the development of research, teaching and extension projects with the LabUrb and Labcom research groups, from the Federal University of Pelotas, Brazil.

Luana Detoni, Federal University of Pelotas

She is an Architect and Urbanist and holds a Master's degree in Architecture and Urbanism. She teaches at Anhanguera Faculty and is a member of the research groups City+Contemporaneity and Studies of Contemporary Urbanism, both of the Federal University of Pelotas, Brazil. She develops research, teaching and extension projects at the LabUrbe research group of the Federal University of Pelotas, Brazil.

Taís dos Santos, Federal University of Pelotas

She is an Architect and Urbanist, and a researcher of the Graduate Program in Architecture and Urbanism at the Federal University of Pelotas. She is a member of the research group Cidade + Contemporaneidade, where she studies the theory of contemporary architecture and urbanism.

Vanessa Forneck, Federal University of Pelotas

She is an Architect and Urbanist, and a researcher at the Graduate Program in Architecture and Urbanism at the Federal University of Pelotas, Brazil. She collaborates with the Teaching Project of the Study Center of Brazilian Architecture at the same university. She develops research, teaching and extension projects at the LabUrbe of the Federal University of Pelotas.

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Published

2019-12-13

Issue

Vol. 1 No. 19 (2019): V!19 The Construction of Information

Section

Ágora