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ISMAT 7085

Space Anthropology

Architecture
  • ApresentaçãoPresentation
    This course aims to gather scientific knowledge and ethnographic tools that allow the identification and analysis of contemporary representations of Space. The syllabus covers the technical mutations, social contexts and relational dynamics that build up Space as a field of action: from macro-processes, such as globalization and generalized acceleration, to micro-links, such as the heterotopic and the particular, passing through pressing issues such as the impact of human action on Earth. Analysis, reflection and debate are promoted on the local and translocal processes that mark contemporaneity, along with the seminal impulses that actively contributed to the real and symbolic construction of space.
  • ProgramaProgramme
    1. Anthropological Space - General anthropology and the anthropology of space: definitions and basic concepts. - Space and culture. - Social space and physical space. - From anthropological places to the non-places of supermodernity (Augé).  2- Transformations of Space - Transformations of space (Foucault; Miranda). - Space and urbanisation. - The city and society. 3. Real Space, Virtual Space and Globalisation - A new configuration of the spatial dimension: between the real and the virtual. - Space and complexity theory. - Space and globalisation.
  • ObjectivosObjectives
    General Learning Objectives: Relate theoretical knowledge: analyse, categorize and compare the contents of this subject. Know the specificities of a research anchored to anthropology as a field of study. Understand the mode of existence of the urban space and the functioning of the networks that constitute it. Stimulate the critical reflection on contemporaneity.   Expected outcomes (indicators): Develop skills in scientific research: identification, selection, justification and validation of ideas. Identify concepts in reference works and develop further readings. Essay writing, scientifically anchored and parameterized according to academic standards. Realize experiences in visual illustrations (scale models and/or drawings). Critically discuss the contemporaneity, correlating the acquired knowledge. Apply knowledge and anthropological tools in transdisciplinary research projects.
  • BibliografiaBibliography
    Augé, M. (2007 [1992]). Não-Lugares: Introdução a uma antropologia da sobremodernidade. Lisboa: 90º. AE/334 - BC Appadurai, A. ([1996] 2005), Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalisation. University of Minnesota Press Foster, H. (1996). 'The Artist As Ethnographer' in The Return of the Real. MIT Press. ART/471 - BC Foucault, M.([1984] 2005). 'Outros Espaços'. in RCL 34/35. Lisboa: Relógio d'Água. AQ/667 - BC Hall, E.([1966] 1986). A Dimensão Oculta. Lisboa: Relógio d'Água. S/41 - ER Latour, B. ([2015] 2017). Facing Gaia: Eight Lectures on the New Climate Regime. Polity Press Silvano, Filomena (2017 [2001] ) Antropologia do espaço. Uma introdução , Edição documenta. Simondon, G. (2015 [1958]) On the mode of existence of technical objects. Univocal. Virilio, P. ([1995] 2000). A Velocidade de libertação.Lisboa: Relógio d'Água.   Nota:  cotas da Biblioteca Victor de Sá - ULHT
  • MetodologiaMethodology
    Fostering the "role play" device in the context of debate/discussion assembly.
  • LínguaLanguage
    Português
  • TipoType
    Semestral
  • ECTS
    2
  • NaturezaNature
    Mandatory
  • EstágioInternship
    Não