{"id":1032,"date":"2026-10-28T15:40:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T18:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wilsonisfer.art\/curitiba-urbanism-and-the-awakening-of-a-design-mind\/"},"modified":"2026-11-06T15:01:32","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T18:01:32","slug":"curitiba-urbanism-and-the-awakening-of-a-design-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilsonisfer.art\/pt\/curitiba-urbanism-and-the-awakening-of-a-design-mind\/","title":{"rendered":"Curitiba, Urbanism and the Awakening of a Design Mind"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"443\" src=\"https:\/\/wilsonisfer.art\/painel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/03-curitiba-urbanismo-e-o-despertar-d-1024x443.jpg\" alt=\"The IPPUC sign on a brick wall at the entrance of the institute, with garden and flags\" class=\"wp-image-1021\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wilsonisfer.art\/painel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/03-curitiba-urbanismo-e-o-despertar-d-1024x443.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wilsonisfer.art\/painel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/03-curitiba-urbanismo-e-o-despertar-d-300x130.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wilsonisfer.art\/painel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/03-curitiba-urbanismo-e-o-despertar-d-768x332.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wilsonisfer.art\/painel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/03-curitiba-urbanismo-e-o-despertar-d-1536x664.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/wilsonisfer.art\/painel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/03-curitiba-urbanismo-e-o-despertar-d-18x8.jpg 18w, https:\/\/wilsonisfer.art\/painel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/03-curitiba-urbanismo-e-o-despertar-d.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At a very young age, I had an experience that I consider important to understanding my development: my first internship at IPPUC, Curitiba's Institute for Urban Planning and Research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was approximately fifteen years old. I worked in two departments, first in Projects and later in Visual&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Communication. It was an early introduction to planning, technical drawing, spatial organization and communication applied to the city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Curitiba was experiencing an important period of urban transformation. Planning ideas developed during previous decades were becoming tangible projects that changed how people experienced and used the city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rua 24 Horas, parks, public spaces, transportation systems and urban facilities became part of a distinctive visual and cultural identity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For someone interested in drawing, images and creative work, being close to that environment was an extraordinary learning opportunity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Later, I worked in industrial design and drafting at Dan-Par Seikan do Brasil. It was a time before computers became commonplace in design offices. Drawing boards, technical ink, drafting instruments and lettering templates were part of everyday work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That experience taught me something I still consider fundamental: an idea must find a way to exist in the world. Imagination is important, but designing requires method, precision, patience and the ability to execute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Perhaps this relationship between thought and material has remained with me ever since.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When I work on a sculpture, there is also a design process. There is observation, intention, decision and transformation. The difference lies in the nature of the material and in the physical relationship with it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My education did not happen only within spaces traditionally dedicated to the arts. The city, technical drawing, architecture and communication were also schools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Curitiba was one of the first major references that shaped the way I see the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">- Prefeitura de Curitiba \u2014 Hist\u00f3ria do IPPUC \u2014 https:\/\/www.curitiba.pr.gov.br\/noticias\/elaboracao-do-plano-de-urbanismo-deu-origem-ao-ippuc\/37313 Contexto do planejamento urbano de Curitiba.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">- Instituto Jaime Lerner \u2014 https:\/\/www.institutojaimelerner.org\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Refer\u00eancias sobre projetos urbanos e Curitiba.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At a very young age, I had an experience that I consider important to understanding my development: my first internship at IPPUC, Curitiba's Institute for Urban Planning and Research. I was approximately fifteen years old. I worked in two departments, first in Projects and later in Visual&nbsp; Communication. It was an early introduction to planning, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1021,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-places"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonisfer.art\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonisfer.art\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonisfer.art\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonisfer.art\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonisfer.art\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1032"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonisfer.art\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1052,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonisfer.art\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032\/revisions\/1052"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonisfer.art\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonisfer.art\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonisfer.art\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonisfer.art\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}