Oficinas do ateliê itinerante: a experiência com as crianças como ferramenta de projeto

Abstract

This paper analyzed the first impacts of the workshops carried by the Ateliê Itinerante (Itinerant Studio) with students from a public primary school, as well as their contributions to the training of the architecture students involved. The Ateliê Itinerante is classified as a program that covers various subjects and aims to support professional training combined with social responsibility. The Urbanism and Landscaping Studio is part of that anchor studio and is organized to interact with vulnerable communities in their respective areas of need. In this period an agreement was established with the Secretariat of Education which enabled the achievement of eight workshops at the school with the goal of substantiating the course’s projects, as well as integrating students with the community. During them, the topics studied aimed to bring children closer to architecture and urbanism, expecting to affect the formation of future citizens as well. Through workshop production the children were able to express their dreams and necessities, which were used in the proposals with the purpose of provoking changes and create new possible worlds, proposals which went beyond the technical drawings and enabled the planning of other activities. Therefore the interaction between college and vulnerable communities needs to be based on a learning balance, on the exchange of experiences in order to cause the transformation of ideas and overcoming of mutual prejudice, since they are more than projects, they are experiences aiming to enable the interaction between dream and reality.