Translating Ferro
Traduzindo Ferro
Transforming Knowledges
Transformando Conhecimentos
Production Studies International Conference 2024
Held at Newcastle University, March 25-28.
How would knowledges and practices of architecture and design be transformed if labour, know-how and processes of building production were made central?
Keynote Speakers: Sérgio Ferro (France) Usina CTAH (Brazil) Christine Wall (UK)
Building: An exhibition under construction @ The Farrell Centre
Conference Program
Production Studies Series
Publications of Research by TF/TK Affiliated Researchers
Lelé: Dissonant Paths to Prefabrication and Building Sites - Sergio Ekerman
The Struggle of Piquiá: Habitat Self-Management in a Mining Hub of the Brazilian Amazon - Kaya Lazarini
Dwellbeing Sheildfield: Reconnecting to Land in the Financialised City - Julia Heslop
Our House: Walter Segal and the Emancipatory Building Site - Hugh Strange
Architecture in the Urban Periphery: Cases, Houses, and Construction Sites:
Women at the Forefront of Production of Space - Carina Guedes & Mariana Borel
Watch the Talks here:
Concrete Experiments - 12 October
Emancipatory Practices - 20 October
Beyond Separated Design - 27 October
+ Matrix “Making Space” Book DiscussionBuilding Alliances - 3 November
Production Pedagogies - 17 November
PRODUCTION STUDIES: WORK IN PROGRESS
In the fall, TF/TK presented a series of five lectures and discussions in collaboration with Central St Martins, drawing on the theory and ideas of Sérgio Ferro.
Lecture Series: - Watch:
Translating Ferro / Transforming Knowledges of Architecture, Design and Labour for the New Field of Production Studies is a joint Brazil/UK project funded by the AHRC and FAPESP with the aim of defining and consolidating a new field of Production Studies, structured and informed by the work of Brazilian architect and theorist Sérgio Ferro.
Traduzindo Ferro/Transformando conhecimentos em Arquitetura, Projeto e trabalho para um novo campo de Estudos da Produção é um projeto em colaboração Brasil/UK financiado pelo AHRC (UK) e pela FAPESP com o objetivo de definir e consolidar um novo campo de Estudos de Produção, estruturado e informado pela obra do arquiteto e teórico brasileiro Sérgio Ferro.
- Translating Ferro -
TF/TK explores and translates into English the single most sustained and rigorous enquiry into art, architecture and design from the perspective of labour in any language – that of the still active Brazilian–French historian, theorist, and architect, Sérgio Ferro, whose work demonstrates that architecture’s very existence is predicated on the separation of design from the construction site.
- Transforming Knowledges -
In the context of the depletion of resources and ever worsening and increasingly disconnected conditions of contemporary construction across the globe, TF/TK looks to Ferro’s work to advance the critical understanding of relations between architectural design and the production and labour of building, with the aim to foster, responsible and just alternatives and develop urgently needed field of Production Studies.
- Traduzindo Ferro -
No âmbito do TF/TK é traduzida para a língua inglesa a investigação rigorosa do ainda ativo teórico, artista e arquiteto franco-brasileiro Sérgio Ferro nos campos da arte, arquitetura e design a partir da perspectiva do trabalho cuja obra aponta para o fato da própria existência da arquitetura se baseia na separação entre o desenho e o canteiro de obras.
- Transformando Conhecimentos -
No contexto do esgotamento de recursos e das condições progressivamente exploratória e alienante da construção civil contemporânea em todo o mundo, TF/TK espera que o trabalho de Ferro avance na compreensão crítica das relações entre o projeto arquitetônico e a produção e trabalho de construção civil, com o objetivo fomentar alternativas responsáveis e justas e desenvolver o campo dos Estudos de Produção urgentemente necessário.
