Projeto de criação e implantação da Uned - Cidade de Goiás

Abstract

Due to the particular insulation rendered by factors of political, economic and geographic nature, the City of Goiás managed to preserve its urbanistic and environmental characteristics, which led to its inscription by UNESCO in the World Cultural Heritage List in late 2001 and rendered an increased interest in the city and the region, mainly through tourism – which influences the real estate sector, by turn. More and more, buildings located in the protected area are purchased by nonresidents and turned into holiday homes or holiday inns, whose reforms frequently leave just their street-fronts untouched. Areas in the outskirts of the city are increasingly being transformed into allotments deprived of service infrastructure, and farther areas have undergone a process of division into small rural properties. Likewise, immaterial heritage have increasingly been transformed or depersonalized, such as the theatricalizing of religious forms of expression and the changes in local culinary art, among other changes. In view of the abovementioned factors, there is a pressing demand for professionals duly instructed and prepared to valorize and preserve the vast cultural heritage existing in the City of Goiás, in order to support a technically, socially and culturally-adjusted management of the aforesaid heritage. Considering these factors and the status of Goiás as a regional converging pole for students, this project does not aim at proposing ways to manage the heritage considered, but rather establishing a Decentralized Teaching Unit (UNED) under the Federal Center for Technological Education in Goiás State (CEFET/Goiás), where future professionals could be prepared through technical high school courses in the areas of Building Construction and Environment. The core technical courses would be complemented by regular and optional courses in the subject-area of Arts, to be attended by enrolled students and the local population as well, in order to develop knowledge and respect with regard to the varied cultural forms of expression. In addition, the establishment of UNED in Goiás – the proposal presented herein – also aims at expiating a historical debt with the City of Goiás, which has suffered the transfer to Goiânia of the Goiás School of Craftsmen Apprentices (later turned into CEFET/Goiás) and the conseqüent closing of its activities in the city,