THE CAU CENSUS THROUGH AN INTERSECTIONAL APPROACH: A PORTRAIT OF INEQUITY IN ARCHITECTURE AND URBANISM
equity, architecture, urban planning, profession, intersectionality
The present study aimed to depict the inherent inequities in professional practice based on the information from the 2nd Census of the Council of Architecture and Urbanism of Brazil – CAU/BR, conducted in 2020, starting from the following hypothesis: the greater the overlap of difference markers of an individual in relation to a normative reference (in the categories of gender, race, and disability), the greater their vulnerabilities throughout their career. When it comes to gender, we tend to talk about women; when it's about race, we think of non-white individuals; and when we speak of bodies, we have an ideal based on ability for a particular model of work. In this research, an inverse approach was adopted, shifting the focus to the white, cisgender, and non-disabled man to demonstrate his privileges in relation to others. Those who deviate from this standard were not marked, and their intersections were not hierarchized, both to simplify the reading of the data and to enable and encourage a convergence of agendas. Conceptualizing categories and then suppressing them, disaggregating data to reaggregate them, deconstructing a canon without proposing new hierarchies, we sought, through a wandering narrative, to conduct an exercise of provocations. We delved into aspects such as discourse, representation, and behavior, contextualized in structured axes derived from a critical grouping of questionnaire questions: 1) identity, 2) income, 3) education, 4) habits and inputs, 5) work, and 6) politics.