ai-research.pt is a research cluster and website based at dinamia'cet-iul that addresses issues related to Criticism, Theory and History of Architecture with an impact on contemporaneity. The core is composed by a group of researchers involved in housing, colonial & post-colonial and gender studies, architecture and urbanism education and Portuguese architectural culture. We work as a team in building research networks, benefiting from the coordination and participation in projects funded by the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia and the Cost Association. We deal with archives and heterogeneous documentation, from architecture drawings to films, we rely on field trips and oral history, we promote new historiographical and essayistic narratives that escape from traditional Eurocentric views. We work in long chronological frames and broad geographies, focusing on the territories that have Portuguese as one of their languages, asking ourselves how they are positioned in the world.

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ai-research.pt is a research cluster and website based at dinamia'cet-iul that addresses issues related to Criticism, Theory and History of Architecture with an impact on contemporaneity. The core is composed by a group of researchers involved in housing, colonial & post-colonial and gender studies, architecture and urbanism education and Portuguese architectural culture. We work as a team in building research networks, benefiting from the coordination and participation in projects funded by the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia and the Cost Association. We deal with archives and heterogeneous documentation, from architecture drawings to films, we rely on field trips and oral history, we promote new historiographical and essayistic narratives that escape from traditional Eurocentric views. We work in long chronological frames and broad geographies, focusing on the territories that have Portuguese as one of their languages, asking ourselves how they are positioned in the world.

© 2023 A+I - All rights reserved.

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Prédios do Goto (former Bairro Pais Ramos). Beira, Mozambique (2022) [Patricia Noormahomed]

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Torres Vermelhas. Maputo, Mozambique (2023) [Patricia Noormahomed]

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Bairro da Coop. Maputo, Mozambique (2022) [Patricia Noormahomed]

(Re-)inhabiting the city left behind. Appropriation and resignification of the modern project in Mozambique

Patrícia Noormahomed DOCTORAL THESIS

This doctoral research introduces a new approach to understanding and interpreting Mozambique’s architectural modernity as cultural heritage. Starting from the consideration that heritage is a social construction, it approaches this legacy not as a static image of the past but as an accumulation of appropriations and meanings over time. The focus is on urban housing, conceived during the final phase of Portuguese colonial occupation and reinhabited and redesigned once postcolonial life took over. Articulating the dialogue with a decolonial review of the “Authorized Heritage Discourse”, the research moves towards the (re)definition of this legacy as a hybrid and ever-changing heritage whose values and meanings are linked to the cultural practices of its inhabitants in their daily lives.

YEAR:
2023

STATUS:
Concluded

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