Projetar é projetarcom: o processo de projeto como construção coletiva

Abstract

Multiple realities in constant changes in the contemporary world further challenge the design process within the architecture-urbanism field. In accordance with the Science-TechnologySociety (STS) studies and with the fundamentals of Actor-Network Theory (ANT), this thesis starts from the understanding of the architectural project as a sociotechnical artifact enacted as a collective construction whose hybrid networks articulate and associate both human and nonhuman actors. Starting from the understanding that researching produces and step in worlds, as well as the possibility of drawing and modifying existing boundaries, this research aims to map the effects of the designingWHITH in the architecture-urbanism design processes and in the formulation of the design principles and procedures. Seeking answers to the question “what are the possible contributions of designingWHITH to the architecture-urbanism design process?”, the methodological strategies proposed aim to explore ways to describe the diffuse complexity of the dynamics of the design process contemplated as collective of human and non-human actors. They are divided into three movements – mapping the associations produced during the design process; following the actors and register their enactments; walking an uncertain road in the dynamics of the process of design. In order to explore the transposition of the effects of to researchWITH to designingWITH, this thesis call upon the cartography of controversies as a practical development of ANT, taking an illustrative design process of an architectural project as an object to think over. It also brings together and presents a research-in-motion, that until now seeks to collaborate to the understanding that the attempts to simplify the design process as a mere technical activity will move it away from the inherent indeterminacy and perversity of its problems, and from the complexity and non-linearity of its supportive networks.