Espacios Y Arquitecturas Escolares. Materialidades, Reglamentaciones Y Cuerpos en El Pasado Y en El Presente

Abstract

The school, that institution that was born with and contributed to the formation of the modern world, closed its doors to contain the spread of Covid-19. Very shortly before we met, a disciplinarily plural group, formed mainly by historians, pedagogues, sociologists, anthropologists, architects and communicologists from Brazil, Mexico, Colombia and Argentina. First in Mexico City (Mexico) in June 2018 and then in August 2019 in Cordoba (Argentina). We were brought together by an interest in reflecting on spaces and architectures in schools, without imagining that in 2020 a pandemic would disrupt the world order. At that time, online classes, remote education and home schooling were strategies adopted by most governments as a safe way to continue with the processes of school-based education. Although they had already been tested and implemented at different educational levels, and could even remind us of past forms of distance education through the postal service and radio broadcasting, the accelerated spread of the disease imposed the generalized incorporation of these strategies without being free of contradictions and resistance.Gradually, schools have taken on new forms, the members of school communities have learned to relate to each other virtually, domestic spaces -now publicly exhibited -have been reorganized and re-staged to house functions and activities that were thought to correspond only to the school, while school buildings look empty, placing space at the center of the concerns of politicians and specialists: from reflections on virtual space to questioning how to rearrange physical spaces, perhaps through modalities that combine