Saberes tradicionais e suas epistemologias: proposta para a Universidade Federal de Uberlândia

Abstract

The present work aims to propose an extension program, which develops projects aimed at the exchange of knowledge between different epistemologies, and also propose the building where the program will take place. The proposal is that the projects developed within the extension program do not limit themselves to a specific physical space. In this way, it is also proposed a structure that will create an ambience for the place where the workshops will take place, but that will not necessarily be used as a shelter for them. It is understood that this structure would be conceived as an extension of the activities, which could be relocated to different areas, adapting itself to the place where it is installed, creating an intervention there. It is based on the urgency of adopting a post-abyssal thought (Santos, 2008), which seeks to deconstruct the persistent thought, which is derived from an abyssal knowledge, that was established in colonial times. At this time, there were "abyssal" cartographic lines that separated the Old and New World, and these continue to structure the modern Western thought, in a way that constitutes the exclusive political and cultural relations that still exist. It is based on the proposal of a model of gnosiological education to deconstruct this paradigm, which implies a subject posture between the educators, in order to establish a dialogue to understand the meanings. From the perspective of architecture and urbanism, it is based on the idea that the understanding that there is a diversity of scenarios and contexts strengthens the perception of the importance of the entire process of elaborating an object created by architecture. Therefore, the proposal arises with the intention of establishing contact between the architect and urban planner in training and the holders of traditional knowledge feasible, and there is also the democratization of this knowledge for people from other areas of knowledge and for the population outside the academic world.