Architecture and City in a socioenvironmental agenda

Paths for a regenerative management of the human habitat

Abstract

Mobilized by the powerful speech of Ailton Krenak, this special edition of arq.urb constitutes an act of resistance and faith in the future – it is a small but vigorous inventory of possibilities of overcoming the terrible picture before us in this moment: a social environmental crisis whose most dramatic and recent expression transpired with the new coronavirus – Covid-19 – pandemic, as far as it is known so for, resulting, among other aspects, from the ecological imbalance associated to the reduction of bat population in a certain region of China, which led, in their absence – habitual hosts for the virus, to its adaptation to the human body as an alternative. The dissemination of the new coronavirus in humanity was exponential and reflected in the economies of every country in the world, also highlighting the lack of health conditions (a basic premise for avoiding it spread) in many human communities left out by globalized capitalism, concentrated in the hands of few, supposedly protected in places voided of meaning, to whom Krenak refers in the speech reproduced as this text’s epigraph. Thus, clumsy environment management intertwines with a perverse social and economic inequality [...].