Na trilha da contra-hegemonia da engenharia no Brasil: da engenharia e desenvolvimento social à engenharia popular
Year: 2020
Type: article
Abstract: This paper aims at considering the benefits of putting scientific and technological development at the service of those who are most in need. We are dealing here, therefore, with John Bernhard Kleba’s ideas related to the creation of an “engaging” engineering. The makeup of the Engineering and Social Development (ESD) field —from 2003 onwards— is analyzed within the context of a progressive administration in the Brazilian government. In a project clearly designed for the expansion of universities, this administration created public policies that encouraged university extension, solidarity-based economy and social technology, which both made the field possible and strengthened it. Methodologically, this paper combines the analysis of documents with participant observation of the National and Regional Meetings of Engineering and Social Development (ENEDS and EREDS, due to their initials in Portuguese). Among our main conclusions, we highlight the consolidation of the ESD field in engineering, as well as its progressive transformation through time, which resulted in the creation of the People’s Engineering Network Oswaldo Sevá. Said transformation is made explicit by the progressive participation of social movements, which started to take part of the ENEDS and EREDS, showing a horizon in the field that abandons the idea of development without the participation of concrete subjects and assumes the ideal of constructing sociotechnical alternatives together with the popular classes.
Language: Spanish
Subfield: Development
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W3117989934