vi "We read the wind and the sky When the sun is high We sail the length of sea On the ocean breeze At night we name every star We know where we are We know who we are, who we are Aue, aue, We set a course to find A brand new island everywhere we row Aue, aue, We keep our island in our mind And when it's time to find home We know the way Aue, aue, we are explorers reading every sign We tell the stories of our elders In the never ending chain Aue, aue Te fenua, te mālie Nā heko hakilia We know the way" "We know the way"

Resumo Este artigo deriva de pesquisa de mestrado que teve como objetivo analisar a resiliência no ambiente construído de habitações de interesse social (HIS) do Programa Minha Casa, Minha Vida, com enfoque em dois de seus atributos: adequação climática e adequação ambiental. Para isso, foram desenvolvidos procedimentos metodológicos de avaliação pós-ocupação para observação desses atributos em HIS situadas no estudo de caso intitulado Residencial Sucesso Brasil (Uberlândia, MG). O artigo dá enfoque à descrição dos resultados que caracterizaram a inadequação ambiental do estudo de caso elencado. Trata-se de características inerentes ao empreendimento entregue que ocasionam, dentre outros efeitos, o desperdício de materiais construtivos, altos gastos com energia elétrica e a depredação de áreas recreacionais e áreas de preservação permanente (APP). Como principal contribuição do trabalho, destaca-se a identificação de soluções projetuais que devem ser encorajadas em projeto de HIS, a fim de amplificar sua adequação ambiental. Ademais, os resultados da pesquisa desenvolvida amparam a obtenção de HIS mais resilientes, alinhando-se, assim, aos objetivos de agendas urbanas de relevância internacional, que colocam a resiliência como motor no combate à vulnerabilidade das grandes cidades.

The poor initial resilience of the ground-breaking Brazilian urban social housing programme ‘Minha Casa, Minha Vida’(MCMV) affects millions of people, who have tried to adapt their homes, survived the unexpected and have to reinvent themselves constantly. This study delimits the elements that compose the concept of resilience, namely: the impacts, vulnerabilities and adaptive capacities that characterize the resilience of the built environment in the case study selected. To achieve these aims, advanced Post-Occupancy Evaluation (POE) and Co-production techniques have been applied in the case study of a typical Brazilian MCMV development in Uberlandia (Brazil). The results highlighted factors going beyond the typical vulnerabilities already seen in most of these developments. They pointed out the adaptive recovery capacities as key factors for resilience. This case study provides the means to investigate resilience and its variables in depth within the specific context of MCMV’s social housing, subsidising designers and public policies makers in the elaboration of more resilient projects for these social housing communities.

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This paper deals with digital POE methods focusing on their reached potential in facilitating the face-to-face experiments demanded by the project. Recognized as a set of methods and instruments applied in environments during use, Post-Occupancy Evaluation (POE) can help manage the project process, providing diagnoses and recommendations that feed new projects and interventions in environments in use. POE approaches have been continually restructured in the face of new environmental, social, economic and especially technological demands. In early 2020, the Covid-19 pandemic, lockdowns and quarantines made it challenging to continue to apply traditional face-to-face POE-based tools and techniques. Simultaneously, the MORA Housing Research Group was carrying out a research project in the city of Uberlândia (Brazil) focusing on the understanding of the relationship between the incidence of arboviruses in the case study social housing neighbourhood, the occupants’ practices, and the built environment management, through POE. The social distancing measures applied during the Covid-19 pandemic led the research team to transform methods from face-to-face to hybrid ones, comprising digital and physical approaches to co-produce durable solutions against dengue. The work comprises a five stage method using on-shelf digital platforms and designing other 2 specifically for the project’s purposes. By introducing the digital/physical hybrid POE format, the use of social networks and messaging applications significantly reduced the number of necessary visits by researchers to the neighbourhood from 20 to 5 in the first stage of the work, saving a lot of time and effort. The new tools were easy to use for all users. Users reported finding it pleasant to participate in activities with digitally remote researchers. The findings from this project indicate that the incorporation of new digital tools to facilitate physical POE research as a novel hybrid approach provides a successful alternative approach to standard POE processes that are based on face-to-face participation.