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ogni_ingles_capa.indd 1-2 15/02/2016 22:23:02 organizers USP President Marco Antonio Zago Vice-Pre- Critical Rapporteurs Textual re- sident Vahan Agopyan Provost for Undergraduate ports Gonzalo Iparraguire, Julia Buenaven- Studies Antonio Carlos Hernandes Provost for tura, Rosa Levandovski, Victoria Rodner Graduate Studies Bernadette Dora Gombossy de Audiovisual reports Jessica Candal Sato, João Melo Franco Provost for Research José Eduardo Alberto Menna Barreto, Larissa Figueiredo, Krieger Provost for Culture and Extension Maria Rafael Urban Arminda do Nascimento Arruda Provost for In- ternational Cooperation Raul Machado Neto IEA Director Martin Grossmann Deputy Director Paulo Saldiva Board Beatriz Barbuy, Senior Committee for the In- Eugênio Bucci, Fernando Queiroz Cunha, tercontinental Academia Regina Guilherme Ary Plonski, Regina Pekelmann Pekelmann Markus, Takao Kondo, Till Roen- Markus, Renato Luiz Sobral Anelli and Ri- neberg, Eliezer Rabinovici, Sami Pihlström, cardo Oktake Research Committee Hamilton Hisanori Shinohara, Martin Grossmann, Bernd Varela Headquarter Staff Aziz Donizetti Salem, sponsor Kortmann General Secretary Carsten Dose Claudia Regina Tavares, Dario Borelli, Edilma Martins, Eduardo Costa dos Santos, Fátima IEA-USP Scientifi c Commit- Moreno, Fernanda de Mattos Cunha Rezende, tee for the Intercontinental Flávia Dourado Maia, Flávia Mendes, João Fer- Academia José Eduardo Krieger (president) nando da Silva, Jorge Paulo Soares, Marcelo Regina Pekelmann Markus (vice president) Vera Rodrigues dos Santos, Maria Leonor Calasans, supporters Lúcia Imperatriz Fonseca, Marcelo Knobel, Re- Marisa Macedo Gomes Alves, Marlene Signo- nato Janine Ribeiro, Hernan Chaimovich, Mas- retti, Marli Pedro, Mauro Marcos de Oliveira simo Canevacci, Martin Grossmann, Eugênio Bellesa, Raimunda Rodrigues dos Santos, Ra- Bucci, Sérgio Adorno, Paulo Saldiva fael Borsanelli, Richard Meckien, Roque Ce- leste Passos, Sandra Sedini, Sergio Bernardo, Young researchers Adriano De Ceza- Tizuko Terezinha Sakamoto São Carlos Hub ro, André Cravo Mascioli, Boris Roman Gibhar- Renato Luiz Sobral Anelli, Hamilton Brandão dt, David Gange, Eduardo Almeida, Eva Von Varela de Albuquerque, Thais Cardoso, Lucia Contzen, Helder Nakaya, Kazuhisa Takeda, Liu Elena Losapio Pereira, Rosemari Siqueira Ri- Yangyang, Marius Müller, Nikki Moore, Norihi- beirão Preto Hub Fernando de Queiroz Cunha, to Nakamichi, Valtteri Arstila Antonio José da Costa Filho, João Henrique Rafael Jr., Rafael Sica Speakers Context Axis Ana Lydia Sawaya, partner Fernando Mussa Abujamra Aith, Sylvia Duarte Services Service Hiring Alípio Monteiro, Dantas, Suzana Pasternak, Hugo Segawa, Paulo Alípio Monteiro Jr. Transportation Europatur Time Axis Saldiva, Martin Grossmann, Eduardo Monteiro, Viagens Turismo Ltda. 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We began the scientific and cultural tour furrowing the city by bus, driving through kilometers of cement, cars and palm trees. The contrast between the green tones of the dense vegetation and the gray tones of the magnificent buildings creates a score of simultaneous dissonance and harmony. The absence of advertising in the streets allows us to appreciate in detail the amalgam between centenary architecture and contemporary industrial design. After visiting the Independence Park and the surrounding palaces, one can understand ogni_ingles copy.indd 4 15/02/2016 22:28:32 4 that the urbanization of São Paulo was a clear mological threshold – or paradigm – from borhoods of Portuguese, Japanese, Bolivian, attempt to domesticate nature. The transfor- which it is not easy to escape, or even to Paraguayan, and Korean populations, among mation of rivers into underground cement ca- face. To create art beyond the limits of tra- many others. São Paulo is, in this sense, a nals, of native forests into enclosed parks and ditions and contexts of epoch was the idea multiethnic nation in itself, bringing together of hills into uncountable edifices expresses that Levy’s music conveyed to me, resonating nationalities from all over the planet. the materiality of the ideals of an aristocracy with the spirit of the ICA event of bringing Regarding scientific imaginaries, the Uni- that believed wilderness should be tamed, that various researchers from around the world versity of São Paulo managed to further the the indomitable nature of the tropics could be to creatively discuss new ways to investigate education of its first graduates in different controlled. This made it possible to create the the ubiquitous problem of Time, as well as universities of the US and Europe to plan the city, to dominate it and to inhabit it. the challenge of rethinking academic life in creation of its own faculties, leveraging their Brazil is rooted in aboriginal cultures that its social and academic contexts. vast experience, which in turn was used to date more than 12,000 years. Besides the São Paulo has reinvented itself sever- develop public policies that gave voice to the hundreds of indigenous Amerindian and al times thanks to its cultural cannibalism demands of a city in constant growth. This African peoples that faced – and still face – – and continues to do so. When visiting pluri-ethnic and academic landscape that colonization, many ethnicities took part in USP’s Museum of Contemporary Art (MAC- allowed USP to grow over the last 80 years the construction of a globalized mega-nation. USP), we witnessed, in addition to a formi- and establish research centers like the IEA The cannibalism attributed to some Ama- dable art exhibit and a panoramic view of frames the Atlantic horizon where the partici- zonian tribes can be interpreted today as a Ibirapuera Park, a performance of musical pants of the ICA may conceive and develop a metaphor of the multicultural exchange that anthropophagy: the mega-city noise filtered new dawn of science without borders (nation- traverses the city as one of its identifiable fea- through the pharaonic walls of the museum al, ethnic, academic or economic). tures: feeding on other cultures to build one’s and turned into quadraphonic sound, a poet- We ended the two days of our exhaust- own. Martin mentioned this idea to explain ry spiral that repeated itself in changing pat- ing Paulista tour by visiting the Nutritional the history of São Paulo’s cultural heritage, terns, as in a Bach fugue, but implemented by Education and Recovery Center in the Vila from the architecture of public buildings to electronic pulses, cables and magnetic speak- Medeiros favela. As we listened to the cele- the structure and design of the Schools of the ers. The sonic culture of São Paulo, nurtured brations with shouts and pyrotechnics com- University of São Paulo. on samba and on baroque music, has man- ing from the houses of the goals of the match This idea turned up again later, when we aged to digest the dissonances and arrhyth- between Palmeiras and Corinthians, I read listened, through the hands of young pianists mias of the 21st century urban jungles, and a 50-meter graffiti on a huge wall that capti- from USP, the music of Brazilian composer has also been bold enough to capture its lush vated me: “We will not be forever, but we Alexandre Levy (1864-1892). Listening to the fidelity and intercultural language. This is an- will be always sailing the times of eternity.” piece “Brazilian Tango,” I recognized the 2x4 other of the resonances that echo the melody An excellent phrase not only to reflect upon tempo of Buenos Aires’ tango milonga, and the running through the ICA participants in São the philosophical dilemma of time, life and mixture of tango and classical piano referred Paulo: audacity, fidelity, multiculturalism. eternity,