Residential vulnerabilities and technological obduration
Authors
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Jorge Eduardo Vergara-Vidal
Departamento de Planificación y Ordenamiento Territorial, Escuela de Arquitectura, Universidad Tecnológica Metropolitana.
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7712-4090
Abstract
Considering that the behavior of material environments is key to understand how societies act through their massive objects, this text addresses the presence of asbestos in Chilean social housing blocks as a type of residential vulnerability and proposes the difficulties in its detection and removal as a type of technological obduration, whose modes of solution account for the controversies of socio-technical governance of such environments. Using a methodological approach that integrated bibliographic data, visual records and statistical data from the Catastro Nacional de Condominios Sociales conducted by the Ministerio de Vivienda, the paper describes the technological framework that included asbestos in construction materials, the controversy surrounding its harmful effects and its characterization as an element of urban vulnerability; the different forms of obduration presented by the materiality, associated with the built forms and the components in which it was used; and the policies designed to overcome such resistances and reduce the urban vulnerability associated with asbestos. The paper concludes that, given the role of categorization and material accounting operations in relation to the repair and care practices implemented, the State should be considered as a key objectual and technological variable to minimize the costs of adaptation that occur at times of partial changes between one technological framework and another.Keywords:
Housing buildings, material vulnerability, asbestos, technological obduration, care politicsReferences
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