Print Email Facebook Twitter Engagement and Estrangement: Participation and Disciplinary Autonomy in Álvaro Siza’s S. Victor Neighbourhood Title Engagement and Estrangement: Participation and Disciplinary Autonomy in Álvaro Siza’s S. Victor Neighbourhood Author Mota, N.J.A. Faculty Architecture and The Built Environment Department Architecture Date 2013-06-01 Abstract Citizens’ participation in the design process has been discussed since the aftermath of World War II as an instrument to promote a more humanist approach to habitat. However, it has been also accused of fostering populist outcomes where the designer is merely the hand of the people, challenging the traditional limits of architecture’s disciplinary autonomy. Hence, to which extent can architects negotiate their critical approach to the status quo with the will of the people? Is there any contradiction between the architect’s social commitment and architecture’s disciplinary autonomy? Should the architect design for the people or with the people? To contribute with some possible answers to these questions, this paper presents a critical approach to Álvaro Siza’s S. Vitor housing neighbourhood, a project designed with citizens’ participation. It will discuss the contributions brought about by the creative tension immanent in the relation between the designer and the user. It will chiefly explore the delicate negotiation between the architect’s engagement and estrangement in the design process, and its consequences in promoting urban inclusion. Subject architecturecitizens' participationpopulismdisciplinary autonomyÁlvaro Siza To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:0e4353a4-477e-41c1-976e-c372aa9b9a90 Publisher University of Coimbra, Centre for Social Studies ISSN 2192-908x Source Ces Contexto. Rethinking Urban Inclusion: Spaces, Mobilizations, Intervantions, eds. N. Duxbury, G. Canto Moniz, and G. Sgueo. Debates, (2) 2013 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type conference paper Rights © 2013 Centro de Estudos Sociais, Universidade de Coimbra Files PDF 294021.pdf 318.85 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:0e4353a4-477e-41c1-976e-c372aa9b9a90/datastream/OBJ/view