The essence of return
Erick Mizushima – Brazilian
Gabrielle Frigotto Ramos – Brazilian
Gihad Abdalla El Khouri – Brazilian – AQ+Ø arquitetura
It is aware that universities in emerging and peripheral countries, despite as much it tries to be a social construction space and dissemination of knowledge, ends up not finding inaccessible and/ or democratic ways, which leads in an irreparable gap. In that context, it is more suitable, thinking in the essence of universities; the knowledge, and its basis instrument; the class. Therefore, to envision new statutes, modes, presences that are in fact universal and democratic. A class allows, says Deleuze, to put a subject in movement … now! Nothing more contrary of a movement than the university, just like today. It has bosses, managers, administrators, judges, etc. A movement has bifurcations, drifts, vanishing points. The essence of return is therefore, not drawing a university in movement, but draw the movement. It is therefore, to rescue a confidence in the encounter, the affectation, in needs of the student and other. It is important to be on the lookout for meetings, with an idea, a work, a color … outside, in another context, more open, in the world, in the favela. The essence of return is therefore, displacement, reoccupation, return to the essence of contact, speech, exchange, encounter. Moving while operation: being out, being present around the world; bifurcation and drift as action: mental and physical openness to doubt, to possibilities; contact and affectation as an end: to touch and feel touched by the other, omnipresent and universal knowledge, lurking, waiting. In spite of all the unlearning, the strength of the encounter, the lurking, the matter in movement.