Pedagogical course project: an experience in construction

Abstract

This article presents reflections on the Pedagogical Course Project (PPC) which challenges the participatory and interactive teaching-learning process among its agents to act in a complex, conflicting and diverse world. It argues that training in Architecture and Urbanism must combine technical training and scientific and critical reasoning with a view to solving old and new problems, in an inter and transdisciplinary way. Based on the necessary approaches for acting and coping with the contemporary world, the article is organized around three axes that also guided the construction of the PPC: 1. coping with the formation of the student as a technical-scientific and professional reflexive political subject, 2. the intersection of “little boxes” guiding the student's experience and structuring through a plot constructed by (i) agglutinating axes that favor the intersection of content and knowledge; (ii) integrated ateliers and studios mixing content, approaches and practices and (iii) transversal crossing lines, events that sew new forms of knowledge production and 3. themes, integrating contexts and experiences that extrapolate practices into activities beyond of classrooms, which aim towards the path of extension. In this environment, new student attitudes flourish, which advocate a more active role in the collective construction, not only of the training School, but of society in constant formation, within a general framework in permanent transformation, in which technology and imbalances constitute a constant and changing theme, in the search for another and necessary sense of the world for all of us.