La identidad en un objeto técnico: el ascensor residencial en las escalas arquitectural y urbana

• Jorge Eduardo Vergara Vidal ^[1]
  1. [1] Universidad de Chile

     Universidad de Chile

     Santiago, Chile

     
• Localización: Política y sociedad, ISSN-e 1988-3129, ISSN 1130-8001, Vol. 57, Nº 1, 2020 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Nuevos y viejos protagonistas en la escena política contemporánea), págs. 241-259
• Idioma: español
• DOI: 10.5209/poso.58935
• Títulos paralelos:
  • Identity in a Technical Object: Architectural and Urban Scales in a Residential Elevator
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  • español

    Mediante observaciones etnográficas, entrevistas y análisis documental, este trabajo estudia los enlazamientos entre lo social y lo técnico que se producen en la identidad de un ascensor en la medida en que se desplaza entre situaciones urbanas de diferente escala. Se observa que su identidad, lejos de ser estable, es constantemente reconfigurada, y constituye un conector que facilita su coherencia en cada situación. La relación entre identidad y coherencia puede verificar el efecto que la variación escalar tiene sobre los objetos técnicos y sobre las relaciones entre la sociedad y la tecnología en las ciudades.

  • English

    The verticalization of cities has brought with it the massification of technical phenomena whose management, previously only relevant to each building, must be dealt with at the urban level. Through ethnographic observations, interviews and documentary analysis, this work studies the links between the social and the technical aspects that occur in the coordination of an elevator as it moves between situations of different scales. Its identity, far from being stable, is observed to be constantly reconfigured and to constitute a connector that facilitates its coherence in each situation. The relationship between identity and coherence may verify the effect that the scalar variation has upon technical objects and on the relationships between society and the technology of its cities.

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