Téchne, Industry and Technological Institute of the South in the province of Buenos Aires (1947-1955)

Abstract

The objective of this article was to present a preliminary study that would serve as a framework for a subsequent approach to the continuities and ruptures in the scientific-technological thinking and practice of the university of southern Buenos Aires during the sixties and seventies of the 20th century, with the purpose of understanding its historical development as a acumulative production of knowledge, delimitation of disciplinary fields or qualitative leaps in some specific object of study. To do this, it is necessary to follow the intellectual trajectory and the exchange networks, both inside the institution and outside it, an issue that can even extend to national or international ties. The specific case of this higher education institution in the southwest of the province of Buenos Aires is significant, given that it was designed from its origins to respond, through an eminently technical profile, to regional socioeconomic and productive development. Thus, the industrial destiny of the port city was strengthened, which, for the time, denoted significant growth in population, commercial, industrial and marine terms. In this sense, it was determined what place intellectuals and scientists occupied in that context.