Projects

The goal of the project is to consolidate, by means of internationalization, a standard for the organization and processes related to inclusive social businesses – with an emphasis on governance standards – toward the implementation of public policies that generate social and economic impact in the communities where they are active, looking at social improvements, the preservation of cultural and historic heritage and the recovery of vulnerable areas.

The inequalities that characterize contemporary reality contemplate several areas of life, from access to buying power to the active participation on the economy, health, education, security, housing, welfare, to subjects that defy the institution's preparedness – including the University and the State – to provide rights to the city and to a dignified life.

The importance of internationalization in this project stems not only from the need to acknowledge the diverse experiences in the elaboration and execution of public policies, but also from the exchange between national and foreign researchers and public managers active in the construction of organizational and institutional models geared toward the reduction of inequalities.

Coordinator: Fábio Ramazzini Bechara

E-mail: 1145985@mackenzie.br

The project deals with issues that the programs have studied fiercely, in which they acquired competence and proven experience on research, production and education of human resources, as well as established international partnerships.

Those are issues regarding: immigrants, refugees, expatriates; fictional and artistic representations of the cultural and socio-political spaces; learning, language learning and intercultural networks; non-verbal languages; arts as means of integration and reducing intolerance; cultural plurality, management implications and attitude toward foreign and diverse; transformative learning and conflict resolution in different cultures; re-qualification and recovery of public spaces and degraded areas toward shared living and respect to differences; sustainable urban interventions that promote quality of life; appreciation and preservation of cultural heritage.

Coordinator: Maria Lucia M. C. Vasconcelos

E-mail: marialucia.vasconcelos@mackenzie.br

The project will focus on the linguistic, artistic and cultural, architectural and urban representation understood as a project, on one hand, and the forms of regulation mediated by norm, on the other.

With all the ambiguities and myriad interpretations brought on by the means of expression and communication, or even because of them, we understand that the complementarity between those media is fundamental in the representation of ideas, concepts and their materiality. One cannot ignore, in this context, the importance of the full possession of the linguistic modes of representation of statements.

The Architecture and Urban Design Project and the Arts Project collude, as language and representation, characteristics and attributes of the non-verbal sign, in the form of drawings and signs, mediating social needs and issues. The targets of the project will be the socio-spatial production of the formal and informal cities by the several actors, the degradation of historical, urban and environmental heritage, and possibilities stemming from regulatory frameworks and languages

Coordinator: Eunice Helena Sguizzardi Abascal

E-mail: eunicehelena.abascal@mackenzie.br