Abstract

CUNHA JUNIOR, Henrique. AFRICAN URBANISM: 6000 years building cities (an introduction to the theme). Revista Teias [online]. 2020, vol.21, n.62, pp.371-382.  Epub Feb 09, 2022. ISSN 1982-0305.  https://doi.org/10.12957/teias.%y.48759.

The development of the conceptual framework of the subject of “African Urbanism: 6000 years building cities and towns” has been developed in research in the last 10 years and the discipline has been offered in some graduate programs in the areas of Engineering and Society at NIDES-UFRJ and architecture and urbanism UFBA. The article is about the conceptual referential development of urbanism based on the perspective of African history and culture and Pan-African concept. It deals with an approach that we consider to be original in the field of teaching urbanism, of a transdisciplinary character, for the areas of engineering and society, urban geography and architecture and urbanism. The teaching of the relationship between engineering and society is a relatively new field as a knowledge area that covers social relations, comprising ethno-racial relations, cultures and technologies. Urbanism and architecture are fields of knowledge at the interface of society and constructive technologies, and over the past century they have produced a Eurocentric vision and racist thinking about the African continent. The perspective of teaching urbanism based on African history and culture is an innovation in teaching, part of the theoreticalconceptual fight against Eurocentrism. In this article we present the development of the conceptual bases of this discipline.

Keywords : african urbanism; african history and culture; urbanism teaching; engineering and society; PanAfrican concept and education.

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