Verônica Natividade

SPECIAL TOPICS III

Photography has the ability to tell stories about the world. How can we understand the city from a photograph? Capturing and read a photograph can provoke ideas about the relationship between people and place. In this course, lectures about photography and fieldwork will introduce a different gaze over Rio de Janeiro and its landscape. Student will photograph to create narratives about community and social values. Each student will have to produce a photography project about their gaze over the city. The class will go out to different neighborhoods and photograph as a group (using a camera or a cell phone); back in the classroom, this fieldwork will initiate discussions about generating ideas and approaching a subject. Looking at historic and contemporary work, students will develop a framework for finding their own expression and approach.

Mandatory internship aimed at carrying out research and practice in architecture and urbanism. The program will be developed through a model office, through participation in social projects, and/or through agreements with architecture and urban design offices, with acceptance being at the discretion of the course coordinator.

Required internship aimed at the practice and investigation of architecture and urbanism. The program will be developed through a model office, participation in social projects, and/or through agreements with architecture and urbanism project offices, subject to acceptance by the course coordination.

Individual work. Planning and development of a project relating to one of the areas of architecture and/or urbanism, or development of research work of a theoretical or experimental nature, under the supervision of a faculty advisor. Presentation and defense of the final project.

The course speculates on the relationship of skin as a CONTACT SURFACE between concept/object/technique in art, architecture and urbanism. It explores new ways of thinking and building in contemporary times, where the notion of skin takes on the meaning of an ambivalent limit that creates patches of transition instead of rigid boundaries between conceptual formulation and digital technical exploration. The theoretical part focuses on contemporary art and architecture theory and the design part on digital technologies. There are no prerequisites and the expected products are free format.