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ISMAT 7085

Space Anthropology

Architecture
  • ApresentaçãoPresentation
    Curricular unit that aims to gather scientific knowledge and ethnographic techniques that allow the identification and analysis of contemporary representations of Space. The programmatic contents were selected in order to cover the mutations, contexts and dynamics that compose Space as a field: from macroprocesses, such as globalization and generalized acceleration, to microrelations, such as the heterotopic and the particular, and thus considering pressing issues such as climate change. It promotes the analysis and reflection on the local and translocal processes that address contemporaneity, along with the seminal impulses that actively contributed to the real and symbolic construction of space.
  • ProgramaProgramme
    1. The Anthropological Space. - General anthropology and anthropology of space: definitions and basic concepts. - Space and culture. - Social space and physical space. 2. The transformations of space. - The mutations of space (Foucault; Miranda). - Space and Urbanization. - The city and society. 3. Real space, virtual space and Globalization. - New configuration of the spatial dimension: between real and virtual. - Space and the complexity theory. - The "non-place" (Marc Augé).
  • 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
    Appadurai, Arjun ([1996] 2005), Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalisation . Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press Augé, Marc ([1992] 2005), Não lugares: introdução a uma antropologia da sobremodernidade . Lisboa, 90 Graus Foster, H. (1996). ¿The Artist As Ethnographer¿ in The Return of the Real: The Avant-gard at the End of the Century . London: MIT Press. ART/471 - BC Foucault, M.([1984] 2005). ¿Outros Espaços¿. in Revista de Comunicação e Linguagens . 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 . Cambridge: Polity Press. Simondon, G. (2015 [1958]) On the mode of existence of technical objects . Univocal. Silvano, Filomena (2017 [2001] ) Antropologia do espaço. Uma introdução , Edição documenta. Virilio, P. ([1995] 2000). A Velocidade de libertação . Lisboa: Relógio d'Água.
  • MetodologiaMethodology
    The use of active methodology and giving students the chance to learn to work in an interdisciplinary context (STEAM).
  • LínguaLanguage
    Português
  • TipoType
    Semestral
  • ECTS
    2
  • NaturezaNature
    Mandatory
  • EstágioInternship
    Não