Joelho #02 Intersecções: Antropologia e Arquitectura

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This issue of Joelho publishes the papers presented at the International Colloquium “Intersections: Anthropology and Architecture/Crisscrossing Anthropology and Architecture”, part of the Autumn Colloquia organized by the Rector of the University of Coimbra, held at the Rectorate Auditorium in two sessions on November 23 and 24, 2009. In addition to the papers, the issue also includes the debate that followed the sessions and a series of subsequent comments that contextualize and open perspectives on the colloquium and its communications.
The invitations sent to the speakers, which naturally included architects and anthropologists, aimed to document two distinct projective and ethnographic practices: one, which we might describe as modern, saw action or intervention on reality as its field of operation; another, which we could label as critical, aimed to deconstruct the reciprocal appropriations of discourse. Thus, the colloquia sought not only to offer a snapshot of the present but to establish a starting point from which to initiate a debate on disciplinary intersections. This is reflected in the transcription of the debates that followed the presentation of the papers.