Date: 4/04 to 16/05, 2022

Location: Online Event

The PRAXIS group (Social Practices in Urban Space) from the UFMG School of Architecture, coordinated by Professors Denise Morado and Daniel Medeiros de Freitas, from the School of Architecture, has just launched the e-book “Social practices in urban space: trajectories and developments of the PRAXIS-EA/UFMG group [2009-2022]”, to celebrate its 13 years of activities.

The e-book “Social practices in urban space: trajectories and developments of the PRAXIS-EA/UFMG group [2009-2022]”, is available for free download through this link.

The e-book brings together the works presented at the PRAXIS 10+ Seminar, between April and May 2022, an event that is part of the Research Groups Program of the Institute for Advanced Transdisciplinary Studies at UFMG (IEAT/UFMG), with support from the Behner Stiefel Chair of Brazilian Studies at the State University of San Diego (San Diego State University), the postgraduate program in Architecture and Urbanism at the UFMG School of Architecture and the Design & Education extension project (EA-UFMG), supported by CNPq.

The PRAXIS+10 Seminar videos are available on the IEAT YouTube channel. In addition to postgraduate students and researchers from PRAXIS-EA/UFMG, professors Ricardo Sanín-Restrepo (Universidad Javeriana Bogotá, Colombia), Amira Osman (Tshwane University of Technology, South Africa) and Krzysztof Nawratek (University of Sheffield, England), as well as external mediators, Doctor Cleide Nepomuceno (Public Defender’s Office of Minas Gerais), Jobert de Paula (activist in the fight for housing), Fernando Maculan (architect), Gisella Lobato, Izabel Dias and Luciana Moreira (Belo Horizonte City Hall) . The critical report of the seminar was made by Marina Sanders and Professor Thiago Canettieri, from the UFMG School of Architecture.

Marina Sanders Paolinelli and Thiago Canettieri, who wrote the book’s afterword, highlight that the discussions presented at the PRAXIS 10+ Seminar and in the e-book contribute to revealing the limits and contradictions of a certain ordering of space, dominated by the social forms of capitalism, addressing the practices and discourses mobilized by different agents operating in different contexts of the city – whether in its so-called “formal” face, in which capital, the State (and urban planning) determine the rules of the game; whether in its so-called “informal” aspect, where social groups excluded by these same rules create and recreate ways of living and living.