Dimensão da Participação no Planejamento: Um Estudo da Edificação do Plano Diretor Participativo de uma Instituição Pública de Ensino Superior Brasileira.

Abstract

The research analyzes the dimension of participation in the planning, taking as a basis the empirical study of building Participative Master Plan (PMP) of a public organization of Brazilian higher education, the UFRRJ. The Master Plan (MP) is traditionally a planning and management tool that characterizes the objectives for the municipal territory. Over the years, other spaces were using the master plans such as the Brazilian public universities. The discussion on the role of the MP of a university campus refers to the dimension of participation when the plan predisposes to be an instrument of participatory planning. The initial assumption of the study was that the building of MP, in the context of a university, which has to be participatory, should involve the academic community and the social agents in the vicinity of the campus in decision-making processes concerning the MP, starting with the dissemination and easy information access, making more transparent and accessible the construction of this instrument. However, the findings of the research beckon for a situation that contradicts the sense of participation, considering it in its magnitude, which suggests that there is no participation without the democratization of decision-making processes. Thus, the idea of building a participative master plan, which incorporates the mobilization of the academic community, which should be articulated to the local institutions, falls to the ground when in practice, cannot reach the participatory dimension which is encompassed within the intent of the PD. The research concludes that the master plans of university campuses have brought important advances for planning and management of universities; however, to realize its participatory premise it requires that its management must seek to provide universal access to information and, specifically, the democratization of the decision-making processes, otherwise, it will comprised the original intention of the PDP in question.