Redes locais e a viabilização de atividades empoderadoras na natureza: diálogos do design em parceria com a pesquisa (pós) qualitativa e o conceito de amorosidade espacial

Abstract

This article aims to present two axes of the doctoral research “Partnership networks and the viability of empowering activities in nature with children from Petrópolis’ public municipal network”, continuation of the master's dissertation, developed within the scope of PPG Design at PUC-Rio. The first refers to the performance of partnership networks in environmental education, and nature as a classroom. The second, to the formation of affective bonds with space, which transform space into place, are the origin of human memory, and the concept of spatial lovingness (Lopes 2022). In dialogue with the methodology of Design in Partnership at PUC-Rio, which guided the fieldwork, and the findings of the (post)qualitative research, they constitute the structure of the thesis and a large part of its relevance. The existence of these two axes is a factor in enabling activities in nature with children, as verified in the field activities carried out throughout the 2022 and 2023 school years, a central phenomenon of the research since the master's degree. When shared with local, community-based partnership networks, the records of children's activities in nature served to enchant more people to the cause of conservation, like aromas that evoke the unity formed by society-nature-person, as understood by Lopes (2020, 249), by taking into account people in their singularities. It was possible to verify, throughout the experiences carried out, an element of utmost importance, a factor enabling activities in nature: the spatial lovingness towards others.

Keywords: environmental education, sustainability, Partnership Design, polyphony, play.