Analysis of the demand for sustainability studies and its impact on the professionals' lives after REABILITA

• Autor(a) principal: Adjuto Martins Graff, Paula
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Montenegro Góes, Thiago
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: P@ranoá
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.unb.br/index.php/paranoa/article/view/35086
• topic: Sustentabilidade; Arquitetura sustentável; Ensino de sustentabilidade; Formação profissional; Palabras clave: Sustentabilidad; Arquitectura Sostenible; Ensino de Sustentabilidad; Formación Profesional.; Key-Words: Sustainability; Sustainable Architecture; Sustainability Education; Professional Qualification.

Sustainability is a relatively new concept and the teaching of sustainable guidelines in undergraduate academic programmes is still a barrier in the training of architects and urban planners throughout Brazil. The need for technical knowledge about sustainability generates demand for postgraduate courses with an emphasis on this theme. In the face of this problem, REABILITA emerged. In addition to focus on this much needed subject nowadays, it offers the distance learning methodology that democratizes the study of sustainability by making it available for students from all over Brazil and also from abroad. Thus, this work aims to understand the profile of those who took the course and what are the impacts on their professional lives after studying the topic. With this aim in view, a questionnaire was developed and applied to the REABILITA alumni to investigate the reasons for the demand and the impressions about the course, as well as the changes in the professionals' activities and lives. It was observed, from the reports, that the alumni improved their professional practice and got better qualifications. As a result, they have improved the performance and teaching of Sustainable Architecture and Urbanism. It is possible to say that the distance learning methodology is fundamental and a great facilitator of this scenario.