TOWARDS OPEN SPACES

• Autor(a) principal: Vieira, Leandro Pessoa
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: GeoTextos (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufba.br/index.php/geotextos/article/view/45536
• topic: ar livre; espaços abertos; vida; outdoors; geography; life; urban experience; pandemic

Traversing life, geography and outdoor, in this article, I seek a hermeneutics of open spaces. Positioning geography, anthropology and phenomenology in relation, I aim at the commitment to combine theory with experience to understand the contemporary urban dwelling of open spaces. With Ingold (2015), I add the notion of outdoor to a direction to inhabit the city. In the unison of experience, imagination and fantasy, I project the opening of these spaces as a possibility, as an opening to being and beings, to the multiplicity of existence. Knowing that the process of inhabiting the city has always been closely linked to one of the countless ways of inhabiting the Earth, it is possible to affirm that the city is not a denial of nature. In a radically inverse sense, the city is, above all, the emergence of the land that we are, especially when lived in open spaces. Opening to the freedom of encountering the unforeseen, with the unexpected, with beings and entities, the outdoor is the gateway to contemplation, celebration, care and attention to the urban experience of otherness.