Advisor: Rachel Coutinho Marques da Silva
Dissertation: Advice and Technical Assistance in Rio de Janeiro: Critical reflection on praxis
Defense date: 17/05/2023
Abstract
This research addresses the experience of technical advisory services and technical
assistance to Social Interest Housing in the Metropolitan Region of Rio de Janeiro
(RMRJ), in the last 20 years. The intention is to reflect on the practice today, in view
of the transformation that the experience has undergone over the last few years.
Consecrated from the federal law of Technical Assistance for Housing of Social
Interest, 11,888 of 2008, advice in architecture and urbanism existed even before it
and, according to the law, is characterized by allowing populations that cannot pay for
architecture and urbanism have “the right to public and free technical assistance for
the design and construction of housing of social interest for their own housing” (Art.
2o., Law 11.888/2008).
Lefebvre’s notions of praxis and right to the city (1969) and Kapp’s socio-spatial group
(2018) will be the basis for the investigation and understanding of practices.
Based on interviews with professionals and the population who have participated in
the 3 case studies, a critical analysis of the experiences will be made, which are: the
Family Architect Project – Housing Improvements in Morro Vital Brazil, in Niteroi,
by the NGO Soluções Urbanas; Rehabilitation for housing of an idle building,
Ocupação Manoel Congo, carried out by NAPP – Core advisory, planning and
research, in downtown Rio de Janeiro and Mulheres em Ação, improvements and
training for small renovations together with a collective of black women, carried out
by Arche Projetos Participativos, in Campo Grande, west zone of Rio de Janeiro.