A arquitetura pode reparar o planeta?
Fraturas, descontinuidades, sincronias e outras dislocações epistemológicas necessárias para a cidade pós-carbono
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https://doi.org/10.12795/astragalo.2025.i40.03Palavras-chave:
ecologia, transformação urbana, discontinuidades epistemológicas, cidade pós-carbono, reparaçãoResumo
A arquitetura pode reparar o planeta? Com esta pergunta aparentemente incomum, mas fundamentalmente urgente, o projeto da exposição The Great Repair (A Grande Reparação) na Haus der Künste em Berlim enfrenta uma reorientação crítica: afastar-se da arquitetura como busca incessante pela novidade e pelo consumo, em direção a uma prática baseada na preservação, durabilidade e cuidado das realidades existentes. Essa mudança exige a recuperação de sistemas de conhecimento antigos e incorporados, nos quais a materialidade não é um mero meio, mas um lugar de significado e compromisso, e nos quais a construção se torna um ato de gestão relacional, integrado ao cuidado, à cooperação e à transmissão da sabedoria prática. Além disso, exige abandonar as projeções utópicas de um futuro descarbonizado — visões que continuam perpetuamente adiadas e abstratas — em favor de um presentismo radical, uma postura ética que insiste em responder às urgências do aqui e agora. Navegando entre as ‘distrações’ expansivas, mas muitas vezes totalizadoras, do pensamento utópico (como nos adverte C. Rendueles) e o desespero imobilizador das narrativas apocalípticas (como na oportuna crítica ao fascismo do fim dos tempos de M. Klein), este ensaio propõe uma arquitetura enraizada no materialismo radical e na atenção ao diferencial, ao fragmentado e ao polifônico. A partir dessa base, surgirá um quadro de práticas e recomendações centrado na reparação e sensível às fissuras, às feridas, narrativas vernáculas e às fraturas que compõem o tecido material e social de nossas cidades.
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