Banca de DEFESA: DILTON LOPES DE ALMEIDA JUNIOR

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STUDENT : DILTON LOPES DE ALMEIDA JUNIOR
DATE: 01/12/2023
TIME: 09:00
LOCAL: Auditório MASTABA - FAUFBA
TITLE:

Brasília Fantasma: the contemporary taba and the refavela - intellectual nebulae between Brazil and Nigeria based on Lucio Costa (1963-1977)

KEY WORDS:

Diaspora; Urban Thought; New Cities; Exhibitions.

PAGES: 392
BIG AREA: Ciências Sociais Aplicadas
AREA: Arquitetura e Urbanismo
SUBÁREA: Fundamentos de Arquitetura e Urbanismo
SPECIALTY: História do Urbanismo
SUMMARY:

At the crossroads between Brazil and Nigeria, we will try to present the construction of Brasilia and its phantasmatic images based on two unrealised projects by Lucio Costa - the unrealised exhibition L'art au Brésil: la taba contemporaine de Brasilia for the Petit Palais in Paris in 1963 and the unrealised urban planning proposal for the new capital of Nigeria, Abuja, in 1976. We will try to create a nebulae (Pereira, 2022) of relationships between discourses, actors and institutions situated in time, in a kind of wandering and deviant prosopography. To this end, we will bring these two unfinished projects together with two other projects that were not conceived by Lucio Costa, but which were carried out in synchronous efforts with those of the Brazilian architect-urbanist: the Imagem Africana exhibition held in Brazil in 1963 and the FESTAC Town urban project by Doxiadis Associates inaugurated in Lagos, Nigeria, in 1977 for the 2nd World Festival of Black and African Arts and Culture. We have chosen to present these projects from the perspective of non-architects: the Brazilian resident in Lagos, Romana da Conceição, and the musician Gilberto Gil. In this way, in the transit between the two countries, the professional and intellectual paths of architects and urban planners are crossed by dictators, filmmakers, chancellors, intellectuals, anthropologists, artists, musicians, journalists, theatre-makers, diplomats, yalorixás and obás. 

At the crossroads between progress and catastrophe, had Nigeria dreamed of a racial democracy, just like Brazil, through the construction of new capitals and urban transformations in modernising uprisings? Have these dreams collapsed? Which futures were interrupted and remain in time as traces? How can we glimpse their flashes of counter-power (Didi-Huberman, 2013a) or the appearance of their ghosts? In Brasília Fantasma we set out to map how racial democracy became a political operator for architecture and urbanism in transatlantic transit and how the colonial project of segregation and exclusion of certain bodies, contradictorily, persevered within the developmentalist and nationalist experiences of these two nations, however emancipatory they aimed to be. We also want to reclaim, in the sense of Isabelle Stengers (2012), the insurgent and counter-colonial experiences that survive and persevere in time and space despite all the violence imposed, and to reconstitute other possible histories (Hartman, 2022) from the transatlantic diasporic experiences (Gilroy, 2002) of reunions between the familiar and the strange in their subjective dimension of urban affections between Brazil and Nigeria. In this way, we are betting on a decentred and polyphonic narrative that excels in the accumulation, complexity and ambivalence of intersecting times and spaces.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Presidente - 1349720 - PAOLA BERENSTEIN JACQUES
Interna - ***.569.177-** - MARGARETH APARECIDA CAMPOS DA SILVA PEREIRA - UFBA
Interno - 2565868 - FABIO MACEDO VELAME
Externo à Instituição - OTAVIO LEONIDIO RIBEIRO
Externo à Instituição - GUILHERME TEIXEIRA WISNIK