Kinematic-graphic body: a transdisciplinary method proposal for embodied cities

Authors

  • Mariana Valicente Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  • Cintia Ramari National University of Brasilia, Brazil
  • Ethel Pinheiro Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  • Niels Albertsen Aarhus School of Architecture, Denmark

Keywords:

Gender, Ambiances, Urban space, Body, Methodology

Abstract

This paper aims to present methodological strategies to a qualitative analysis supported by the interpretation of quantitative data in public urban spaces, as ‘Corpography’ has done. Including new narratives for urban planning and public policies that take into account perspectives that consider not only physical spaces but also the subjective ambiances and performances stimulated by the relationship of the body with public environments is a challenge for the Applied Social Sciences and especially urban ethnographic research. In an effort to evade the limitations caused by a technocratic approach or reductionist analyses of gender in urban spaces and steering towards an approach that considers the social-political body as a unit of analysis, the intention hereby proposed is to raise questions, issues, and possibilities inherent to a research of this nature. Therefore, this paper aims to shed light on theoretical and practical challenges in this kind of research and highlights possible methodological paths to follow in order to fill in those gaps and build a reliable, serious, deep, and complex analysis of gender and public spaces under the perspective of women’s corpographies: the choreography of political bodies active in urban spaces as an alternative of resisting in a gender-excluded city.

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Author Biographies

Mariana Valicente, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

She is an architect and urbanist, has a Master's degree in Architecture, and is a researcher at the Postgraduate Program in Architecture and Urbanism of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She collaborates with the LASC research laboratory and works as a researcher and heritage educator at SESC Pompeia Cultural Center, in Sao Paulo. She studies gender, urban appropriations, educational territories, free space system, modes of production of contemporary space, and the right to the city.

Cintia Ramari, National University of Brasilia, Brazil

She is a Bachelor in Physical Education and holds a Master's degree in Movement Biodynamics and Sports. She is a researcher at the National University of Brasilia, Brazil, where she carries out research on biomechanics of walking impairment in neurological diseases.

Ethel Pinheiro, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

She  is an architect and urbanist and Doctor in Architecture. She is a Professor at the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where she coordinates the Postgraduate Program in Architecture and Urbanism, and is the Editor-in-Chief of its scientific journal CADERNOS PROARQ. She conducts research on ​​architectural representation with an emphasis on urban space planning and design, technical and observation drawing, and urban anthropology.

Niels Albertsen, Aarhus School of Architecture, Denmark

He is a Master of Political Sciences and Professor Emeritus at the Aarhus School of Architecture, Denmark. He has been dedicated to teaching and research since 1975, evolving at an intersection between urban and social theory, theories of architecture and design, the sociology of the architectural profession, and the sociology and philosophy of art.

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Published

2020-07-20

Issue

Vol. 1 No. 20 (2020): V!20 Question of Method

Section

Ágora