Indisciplinar Cartographic Method: from rhizome’s topology to topography

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Information, Cartography, Genealogy, Actor-network, Associations, Controversies

Abstract

In this article, we will relate to the theme Construction of Information from three topics, focusing on the recent production of Indisciplinar’s Research Group, from the Federal University of Minas Gerais, about ongoing disputes in various territories of Belo Horizonte – the capital of Minas Gerais state in southeast Brazil. For this, we developed the proposal of an own work method that would make it possible to construct information by articulating the needs and the temporalities of the struggles, with the demands of scientific/academic production, always in a collective and networked way. In the first topic, "1. Field Epistemological Dispute", we discuss the concepts related to information, knowledge, as well as knowledge and episteme, trying to highlight the way these concepts are constructed and how power relations permeate this construction. To this end, we resort to the thinking of some French poststructuralist philosophers such as Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari, and Bruno Latour. In "2. Indisciplinar's Production: cartography and technopolitics", we will present some of the reflections made by the group since 2012, about the production of the contemporary city. These reflections allowed us to systematize guidelines for the cartographies performed, enumerate the main dimensions to be addressed and organize our repertoire of processes and work platforms. In the topic "3. Cartographic, genealogical and plateau method", we will discuss how the collective construction of information has been developed by Indisciplinar, in order to coherently approach the adopted theoretical assumptions and their methodological research guidelines, constituting an operative method for your investigations.

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Author Biographies

Marcela Lopes, Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil

She is an Architect, Civil Engineer and Doctor in Architecture and Urbanism. She is an Adjunct Professor at the School of Architecture and Design of the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil, and a collaborator of the Graduate Program in Architecture and Urbanism at the same university. She is a researcher at the Indisciplinar research group and the coordinator of the Nature Politics extension program. She studies space production processes, housing, technical advice for self-built urban occupations, collaborative cartography and shared design processes.

Natacha Rena, Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil

She is an Architect and Urbanist and Doctor in Architecture and Urbanism. She is an Associate Professor at the School of Architecture and Design of the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil, and the Graduate Program in Architecture and Urbanism at the same university. She coordinates the Indisciplinar research group and the IndLab extension program. She works on geopolitics and territory, the cartography of urban struggles, contemporary architecture and Ibero-American collectives.

Ana Isabel de Sá, Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil

She is an Architect and Urbanist and Master in Architecture and Urbanism. She teaches at the Federal Institute of Education, Science, and Technology of Minas Gerais, Brazil, both in the Architecture and Urbanism and Building Technics courses. She is a researcher of the Indisciplinar research group and works on the topics such as urban technopolitics, collaborative cartography, public participation policies, and urban territory co-design.

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Published

2019-12-13

Issue

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

Section

Ágora