Roundtable 3: City, housing and heritage

ACCESS AND LANGUAGE

Portuguese / Spanish / English

CUIDADO: este evento começa às
10h00 horário de Brasília
PRECAUCIÓN: este evento comienza a las
10h00 hora de Buenos Aires

PROGRAM

The program will be announced soon!

The City, Housing and Heritage roundtable aims to reflect on the place of heritage in the contemporary city, in the light of decolonial perspective and deepen the crossings with the issue of housing as a land use, which reveals itself to be preponderant in the life of communities in their different social strata. It is intended to publicize initiatives that have being carried out in Brazil and abroad for the conservation and recovery of heritage with a focus on local knowledge and discuss management experiences and collective strategies of civil society on the subject of social housing in historic centers, in protected areas or in heritage buildings or buildings of interest to the heritage.

The accelerated urban transformation, especially in the metropolitan regions, continues to generate impacts and substantive changes in the ways of inhabiting cities. Among the multiple changes experienced in the urban fabric and, consequently, in the social body that inhabits it, it is possible to highlight processes related to social segregation, the emptying and degradation of central areas, gentrification and the modification of the economic dynamics of the land and real estate markets, both formal and informal. The blatant housing shortage in Brazilian and other peripheral cities, especially among the poorest strata of the population, raises questions related to the permanence and coexistence of different social groups in central areas, as well as socio-environmental conflicts in territories protected by their environmental and landscape attributes. Thus, the debate on the use of urban built heritage for housing or other social uses and on the forms of financing to enable access to decent housing becomes crucial.

Solutions that inspire transformations in form, uses and stances and promote the sharing of responsibilities in safeguarding and conserving the collective heritage, to help conserve it. Initiatives for the reuse of built heritage adapted to contemporary needs; urban regeneration projects in protected areas; economic instruments for heritage recovery and technical assistance actions for the conservation of the inhabited heritage will be some of the themes of discussion.

The debate is part of the discussions on New Heritage Approaches as part of the activities of the Our World Heritage Movement and will be promoted by the Institute of Architects of Brazil, by the Professional Master in Design and Heritage, at the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro – UFRJ, by the Council of Architecture and Urbanism of the State of Rio de Janeiro and by the International Council of Portuguese-Speaking Architects, with support of the Group of Studies and Research in Politics and Territory – GEOPPOL/IGEO/UFRJ, of the Centro de Patrimonio Cultural de la Universidad Católica de Chile and the Foro Latinoamericano de Ciencias Ambientales.