Editorial | The city and the others

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In presenting this ninth issue of V!RUS, we inform our dear readers that, from this edition, our journal will be published once a year.

With the steady increase of the urban population in the contemporary world, concomitant with the consolidation of a communication infrastructure that redefines boundaries and connections, the city as a subject of reflection acquires renewed interest. Its increasing complexity and changing nature find a match in the fabric of multiple perspectives and experiences that seek to unravel it: a city built from the interaction and experience of people in their concrete and virtual spaces, the city as a growing organism or  as a palimpsest in continuous formation, the city as locus and process of reproduction of capital, the city as a data landscape susceptible to statistical techniques, among countless other possibilities. This convergence of reflexive glances supports this ninth edition of V!RUS, and the question we put to our collaborators: how different disciplines perceive the contemporary city? (to be continued in PDF)

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Author Biographies

Marcelo Tramontano, University of São Paulo

Associate Professor of the Institute of Architecture and Urbanism of the University of São Paulo (www.iau.usp.br), since 1990, where he coordinates the Nomads.usp - Center for Interactive Living Studies [www.nomads.usp.br]. Professor and supervisor at the IAU-USP Post-graduate Program in Architecture and Urbanism at Master and Doctorate levels and postdoctoral supervisor. Member of the Postgraduate Committee and the IAU-USP Higher Council. Since 2006, Editor-in-chief of the V!RUS Journal (issn 2175-974x, www.nomads.usp.br/virus), biannual thematic publication online bilingual (Portuguese-English or Spanish-English) by the Nomads. usp. Post-Doctorate at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure D'Architecture de Paris-Malaquais, France ("Contemporary Housing and New Media", 2002); Associate Professor degree at the University of São Paulo ("SQCB: apartments and ways of living in the city of São Paulo", 2004 School of Engineering of São Carlos); PhD in Architecture and Urbanism from the University of São Paulo ("Paris, São Paulo, Tokyo: new ways of living, new living spaces", 1998, Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism); Master in Architecture from the Ecole D'Architecture of Grenoble ("Architecture de terre: program de formation pour formateurs", 1990, CRATerre); Graduated in Architecture from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture of Grenoble, France (1984, DPLG) and in Architecture and Urbanism from the Catholic University of Campinas, Brazil (1980). He was a Visiting Professor in the Department of Cultural Sciences at the Leuphana Universität and the Hafencity Universität, Hamburg, both in Germany (2009 - 2010), Ecole Nationale Supérieure D'Architecture de Paris Belleville (2013), guest professor at the Tsinghua University School of Architecture, China, and Guest Researcher at Osaka Sangyo University, Japan 1993 - 1994, Department of Environmental Design). He coordinates research projects on public policies in the field of Culture and Urban Studies exploring the use of digital media in: 1. Cultural actions for reading and occupying urban public spaces (FAPESP 2004-2008, FAPESP 2011-2013), 2. Strategies for the development of the Advanced Internet - TIDIA-AE (FAPESP 2007-2009), 3. Study and characterization of the relationships between behaviors and living spaces in Brazil (PRP-USP 2001-2008), 4. Studies on metropolitan housing modalities; 5. Design processes with parametric design and digital manufacturing (FAPESP 2011-2013, CNPq 2013-2015), and 6. Intervention research projects with national and international partners outside the university (FAPESP, CAPES, DAAD). He prioritizes themes related to the use of documentary film as a means of research; contemporary urban dwellings and their history; architecture, parameterization and digital culture; BIM and design processes; computerization of everyday life on the scales of the body [wearable computing], the object [furniture with integrated media], building [the building as communication interface] and the city [computerized urban fragments], cultural policies; furniture design; online platforms in participatory decision-making processes for urban interventions. Invited professor of the PROCAD-CNPq Project involving the Post-Graduate Programs in Architecture and Urbanism of the IAU-USP and the Federal University of Pará, UFPA (2013-2016). He coordinated international agreements for the exchange of undergraduates, graduate students and professors with the Ecole d'Architecture of Paris-Belleville (France), Hafencity Universität (Germany, participant) and Leuphana Universität (Germany), the latter two through the UNIBRAL Capes- DAAD (2008-2011 and 2014-2016).

Anja Pratschke, University of São Paulo

Anja Pratschke, a German Architect and Researcher, lives in Brazil since 1991. Associate Professor at the Institute of Architecture and Urbanism, at the University of São Paulo. Productive Fellowship by CNPQ since 2014. Since 2001 she works as a teacher and full-time researcher in the Institute of Architecture and Urbanisme of the University of São Paulo where she teaches Digital Midia in Architecture [undergraduate] and Architectural Conception and Digital Culture [postgraduate]; since 2001 she is co-coordinating the research group Nomads [http://www.nomads.usp.br/site], where her research projects are based theoretical and practical in the design process and communication in Architecture: Cybernetics, Ecology, Artificial Intelligence, Digital Architecture, Computational Design Process. She studied Architecture in the Ecole d'Architecture de Grenoble, France, did her Master of Architecture in Theory about the use of voids in architecture at the University of São Paulo between 1992-1996, realized a one year research about contemporary architecture in Japan in 1994 and did her Ph.D. in Computer Science at the Institut of Mathematics and Computer Science in the University of São Paulo about the use of mnemo-structures as architectural methods to construct virtual spaces between 1998 and 2002. Realized a Phd International period in the Department Hipermedias at the Université de Paris 8 in 2001, and her Postdoc research at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College of London about Second Order Cybernetics in 2009. Associate Professor since 09/2018 with the defense of the systematized text: The ship, the sea, and the steersman: Design process and Cybernetics in the Digital Cultura, at IAU-USP.

Pedro Veloso, University of São Paulo

bachelor's at Arquitetura e Urbanismo from Universidade de Brasília (2006) and master's at Architecture and Urbanism from Universidade de São Paulo (2011). Has experience in Architecture and Urbanism, focusing on Planning and Projects of the Construction, acting on the following subjects: criative process, digital modeling, theory of project, contemporary architecture and parametric modeling.

Anelise Ventura, University of São Paulo

Architect, designer and doctoral student of Interunit Bioengineering at the Engineering School of São Carlos [EESC], at the University of São Paulo [USP], at the Labciber research group [Electric Engineering - EESC USP] and at Labral [Medicina - Unicamp]. Master's degree from the USP's Architecture and Urbanism Institute [IAU] in São Carlos (2015), in the research group Nomads.usp - Center of Interative Living Studies, in the lines of research Design Processes and Hybrid Spatialities. Graduated in Architecture and Urbanism from PUC de Campinas (1998); Graduated in Multimedia Design and Professional Master in Exhibit Design, both from the Istituto Europeo di Design in Turin, Italy (2001). MBA in Branding - Brand Management from Faculdades Rio Branco in São Paulo (2005). She has experience in the areas of Design Processes, Design Management and Graphic Design.

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Published

2022-05-02

Issue

Vol. 1 No. 09 (2013): V!09 The City and the Others

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Editorial