DU&P JOURNAL PRESENTATION DU&P is indexed by: • DOAJ, Directory of Open Access Journals. EDITORIAL BOARD Directors and Editors-in-Chief EDITORIAL TEAM N° 44 DU&P ASSESSORS GRAPHIC DESIGN: Sebastián Chandía. JOURNAL CONTACT Editorial This 44th issue of DU&P magazine is entitled “the deconstruction of landscapes and cities”, where the contributions of researchers who, under a critical view of the phenomena and narratives studied, reflect models that contrast with the needs associated with the spheres of landscape and urban planning. Through their studies, they identify invisible subjectivities and otherness. This being a central theme in current post-structuralist philosophy, each article contributes to deconstruct hegemonic thoughts and practices in the territory. It is well known that various models have been imposed and continue to be imposed on the global south, with deconstruction being of fundamental importance in contemporary research to identify and change ways of thinking and acting, given that previous literatures continue to support implicit cultural and social biases. This, towards evidence that explains forms of power and social, cultural, economic and political relations that are repressed, violated, inequitable or unjust. Above all, the current articles provide an example of making visible and valuing phenomena and events, providing tools or epistemologies that allow us to move from reflection to action, changes whose impact makes inclusive sense and contribute to understanding our environment from heterogeneities, otherness, diversities, pluralities and subjectivities. URBAN AND TERRITORY STUDIES Likewise, the study by authors Millaleo and Marquez shows that Mapuche vegetable gardens led by Mapuche women did not disappear, despite the models of agrarian reform and counter-reform in Chile, based on patriarchal narratives and practices. The gardens survived this “modernization” as places of resistance. The Mapuche vegetable garden is a stronghold of the corporality of Mapuche women, made invisible in formal history. It is where they reproduce and create wisdom, learning and knowledge about the generation of life in the territories, passing from woman to woman. Thanks to its historical and political devaluation, it survived the modernizing assumptions based on scientific, rational and androcentric masculine and moral superiority. This worldview of the vegetable garden, which survives colonizations, modernizations and reforms, is the first body-territory of defense, of habitation that germinates life. It embodies our ancestral heritage and cultural diversity, relating the material and spiritual aspects of the territory as a means of reproducing life. CITY AND POLITICS The author Jorge Vergara evaluates the effect of the regionalization of CORVI collective housing in the year 1974, or during the military dictatorship and imposition of the neoliberal system. He maintains that the behavior in the common spaces of the buildings observed does not correspond to the assumptions of their rationalization. Rather, they facilitate the individual sphere by compromising the collective one. From the point of view of causality, regionalization is based on Chilean developmentalist modernity, significantly influenced by a Taylorist sense of functional efficiency; where architecture became just another repertoire for its operationalization, controlling, for example, constructive aspects and formal expressions that reduced the space and the number of possible interactions. The precarious is, in reality, an accumulation strategy. Concepts such as rationalization, replicability, flexibility, typology, standardization, practicality, are terms widely used to refer to these typologies of collective housing, even used to this day to identify their positive attributes, when in reality their design of collective housing was an experiment. URBAN AND ARCHITECTURAL PROJECTS The author Pablo Merello evaluates the use of portfolios in an architecture school. His topic, on the pedagogy of urban and architectural themes, is emerging at a global level, and has been installed as a line of research in various universities around the world. His contribution lies in the scarce literature that evaluates how a portfolio is used, a broad and traditionally used tool in the world by dozens of schools of art, design, architecture, urban planning and landscaping. This portfolio model is considered suitable for synthesizing evidence of learning, which in turn facilitates the capacity for self-assessment at different levels of the educational entity. Its adequate implementation requires communicative capacity between professors and students, it requires reflection, collaborative and organizational capacity, forming an integral part of the identity of the technical or professional training institution. LANDSCAPE STUDIES AND SUSTAINABILITY The contributions of Figueroa and Fernández, for example, show a bridge between quantitative scientific research and an explanation of causality that points to social and cultural spheres. They study the presence of native flora in squares and parks in urban areas. The results show that, in public spaces and urban parks, Chile's native species represent less than 15% of the registered and threatened species. The results make visible the obstacles in the incorporation of public areas for plant conservation. It is not a budget issue. Rather, it reflects that the notion of heritage has changed, including the notion of natural conservation in urban areas, a more recent fact with respect to the notion of cultural conservation. Moreover, it is reflected in the current state of natural and endemic species in public spaces. The presence and frequency of native species in the Metropolitan Region is influenced by the 19th century French model and design, which models a heritage institutionality, educational and research programs on the country's urban biodiversity. This builds public spaces typologies with a rather low presence of local and endemic flora both in cities and in Santiago de Chile.
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