Construção Civil e Arquitetura na era do Antropoceno: trabalho expropriado e natureza espoliada

Abstract

This work indicates some reflections of a research which investigated the relationship between Society and Nature, especially conflictual in the field of Civil Construction – the one in which Architecture is practiced. We start from the following argument: although we continue to bet on sustainability as a solution to the socio-environmental problems in the Anthropocene, the capitalist mode of production and reproduction – which governs our thermofossil civilization – is unsustainable by its very nature, as it depends on the excessive exploitation of natural resources and of the workforce for the purpose of cumulation. In this paper, we also discuss the importance of spatial production – and, therefore, of the built environment – for the expansion and the continuity of unsustainable capitalist dynamics. Finally, we insist on the urgent change of our ways of producing and building, aiming to face the imminent socio-environmental collapse.