The city in a sociotechnical perspective: political ontologies, urban assemblages and hybrid places

Authors

  • Fabíola Belinger Angotti Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Brazil
  • Marcelo Hamilton Sbarra Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Brazil
  • Paulo Afonso Rheingantz Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Brazil
  • Rosa Maria Leite Ribeiro Pedro Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Brazil

Keywords:

Contemporary city, Science-Technology-Society, Actor-Network Theory, Political ontologies, Hybrid places

Abstract

Understanding that contemporary city is becoming more complex due to the several relations that take place among people, environments and objects, in this article we explore some possibilities related to the theme of the V!RUS 14 Journal call, weaving the city in contemporaneity. Inspired by the Science-Technology-Society (STS) studies and the Actor-Network Theory (ANT), we bring to reflection our comprehension about a multiple city and its resonances in hybrid places, in the Architecture-Urbanism (AU) field, by reading authors from these areas. In this direction, we recognize the city as a territory whose performance is produced from crossings which involve assemblages and effects of the connections among different actants that participate of urban life. Associating STS studies, the ANT and AU allow to delineate an alternative ontology to understand, produce and perform the moves of a heterogeneous ensemble of entities or hybrid places that continuously coproduce themselves.

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Author Biographies

Fabíola Belinger Angotti, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Brazil

 She is architect and urban planner. Researcher at Architecture Graduate Program, and at Psychology Graduate Program, both at Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. She studies environmental perception and analysis of the architectural form and the urban morphology, relationship between Science, Technology and Society, Actor-Network Theory and Architecture and Urbanism.

Marcelo Hamilton Sbarra , Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Brazil

 He is Master in Architecture and Urbanism. Researcher at Architecture Graduate Program, at Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. He studies post-occupation evaluation, place quality, environmental psychology, and discourse analysis.

Paulo Afonso Rheingantz, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Brazil

He is architect and urban planner, Doctor in Production Engineering. Professor at Architecture and Urbanism Graduate Program, at Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and at Federal University of Pelotas. He studies post-occupation evaluation and place quality from the perspective of the Science, Technology and Society studies.

Rosa Maria Leite Ribeiro Pedro, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Brazil

She is psychologist, Doctor in Communication and Culture. Professor of the Graduate Program in Psychology, at Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. She is Coordinator of the Research Group Contemporary Culture: subjectivity, knowledge and technology. She studies subjectivity, technologies and surveillance based on the Actor-Network Theory.

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Published

2017-07-01

Issue

Vol. 1 No. 14 (2017): V!14 Weaving the City

Section

Ágora