Distância entre Conhecimento e Experiência: a pertinência de Inception no ensino de Arquitectura

Abstract

If cinema assumes a decisive importance in the creation of an immersive and collective experience, Inception, written and directed by Christopher Nolan, results in an opportunity for reflection that reveals, with particular relevance, the adopted cinematographic methodology and applies it in a transversal disciplinary framework , between Cinema and Architecture. In the first part of the essay, we seek to establish a close relationship between Cinema and the dream experience, as both share similar structural principles and necessitate the suspension of critical thinking in order to provide an immersive experience. Consequently, it is assayed about the illusory nature of the dream and theoretical problems are enunciated in order to question the legitimacy of reality itself. In a second moment, the intention is to analyze and identify possible architectural references used by the director in the creation of Limbo, as well as to relate it to the plan for Paris downtown, by Le Corbusier, since both share embryonic symptoms identical in his conception . It seeks to understand, at the same time, why Limbo, ultimately, neglects the responsibility of being a city. Finally, it is crucial to bring together the concepts, which are quite distinct and distant, of knowledge and experience, punctuated by the case study of Punt en Komma's project process, by Álvaro Siza. Finally, it is enunciated how new tools, together with traditional instruments, allow us to respond effectively and assertively to the needs of a discipline that is inert in adopting new work methodologies.