Approaches and methodologies in participatory processes: for an education of architecture and urbanism capable of welcoming and preserving

Abstract

This text examines the adequacy of undergraduate Architecture and Urbanism content to the way of life of quota students, insofar as the content of this professional training still follows the European matrix, perpetuating colonising, exclusionary and racist aspects in design production or intervention in the city space. The text takes as evidence the results of an extension project that promoted student dialogues with Latin American authors and followed Freirean action strategies. The project's Reading Circles were built on the testimonies and records of the participants, who realised both the levels of oppression experienced by them, identifying agents and manifestations of these oppressions in the everyday landscape of the cities, as well as emancipatory forms of action.