Territórios: Desafios e Representações

Code:

460520

Acronym:

TDR

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Architecture and Urbanism

Instance: 2022/2023 - 1S (of 18-11-2022 to 24-02-2023)

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Arquitectura (A)
Course/CS Responsible:	Advanced Studies Course in Territory

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
CEAT	14	CEAT	1	-	6	30	162

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

The trivialization of the use of the word “territory” erroneously suggests that its meaning is clear and self-explanatory. In fact, the situation is very different: the meanings of the territory as a concept are lost (as in common language) in the lack of rigor and in the diversity and contradiction of what is said about it.



Territory is a highly sensitive political device; a permanent social construction interpreted and problematized in an unstable way. More than a fact or a set of facts, the territory is a subject, a matter under discussion that includes the positions of the actors involved and the scientific/disciplinary approaches highlighted.



This UC will seek to reflect on what is said when talking about territory, as well as on its modes of production and representation, exploring operative ways of looking at the phenomena of contemporary urbanization. To this end, it starts from the recognition of the extensive anthropization of the Earth in which the city-country dichotomies; center-periphery; rural-urban; natural-artificial no longer make sense. This condition forces us to accept and understand the complexity of (in)visible processes, agents and phenomena, which crosses infinite scales, times and disciplinary fields.



Acting in this context is “an act of 'unfolding' that weaves from one point to another, so many relationships (...). That's it, actualizing potency, or becoming active: life and its prolongation depend on that.” (Deleuze, 1988). For this reason, the limited vision of the project-that-creates the 'new' is contradicted, and thus freezes the territory in a 'finite' idea, for a project-that-transcribes and catalyzes infinite relationships and possibilities. How to act like this? How to think like that? What tools? How to represent this relational unfolding? are the issues we try to approach.

Learning outcomes and competences

The CU Territories: Challenges and Representations aims to offer the theoretical basis that can support the exploration and debate to be developed in the remaining CUs of the course. In this sense, it is intended to:



. To clarify central concepts in the discourse and action on the territory such as city, urban, rural, natural, territory, organization of the territory, sustainability, among others.

. To distinguish and relate analysis and regulation/intervention

. To identify the main processes and actors in the transformation of the territory

. To recognize the specifics of specific territories

. To use critical tools for representing places in their transversality of scales and time(s)

Working method

Presencial

Program

1. Territory - critical analysis of the concept in the disciplinary fields of Geography, Urban Planning and Political Sciences



2. The frequent uses of the word in the media sphere



3. Territory and urbanization - critical analysis of recurring themes/contexts in Portugal



4. Towards an epistemology of territory

Mandatory literature

Graham, S.; Marvin, S. (2001) ; Splintering Urbanism: Networked Infrastructures, Technological Mobilities, and the Urban Condition
Brenner, N. (ed) (2014) ; Implosions/Explosions: Towards a Study of Planetary Urbanization, Bovis, 2014
Roy, Ananya; What is urban about critical urban theory, Urban Geography 37(6): 810–823, 2016
Lefebvre, Henri; The Production of Space , 1974
Ascher, François; Metapolis ou l'avenir des villes, Odile Jacob, 1995
Sgard, Anne; Fortin, Marie-José; Peyrache-Gadeau, V.; Le paysage en politique, Développement durable et territoires Économie, géographie, politique, droit, sociologie Vol. 1, n° 2 | 2010 Paysage et développement durable, 2010

Teaching methods and learning activities

Exposition of theoretical and conceptual matters, and promotion of critical discussion.



Presentation and discussion of study-cases.

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

designation	Weight (%)
Trabalho escrito	100,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

designation	Time (hours)
Frequência das aulas
Trabalho de campo
Trabalho de investigação
Trabalho escrito
Total:	0,00

Eligibility for exams

At least 2/3 of attendance in classes

Calculation formula of final grade

On a scale from 0 to 20, the classification of the written work, provided that the attendance requirement in at least 2/3 of the classes is fulfilled.