Jornada ao centro da COHAB: pesquisa-ação e ecopedagogia em escolas e conjuntos habitacionais: (experiências no Cerrado e na Amazônia)

Abstract

This academic work is a journey to the center of the COHAB program (housing estate). In this journey, popular culture and science tools are used in theory and practice. Urban peripheral landscapes are spaces that reflect the urban geography of popular housing, supported by statistical housing data and the residents' view of their homes. Bibliographical research was carried out on the urban and housing issue in Brazil, focusing on two states: Pará and Minas Gerais, where field surveys were carried out in the housing estates of two municipalities (Bragança-PA and Patos de Minas-MG), in two biomes (Amazônia and Cerrado). In interviews and exchange of sustainable ideas with the residents, knowledge was woven into intercultural collaborations. When researching the housing deficit and the housing program Minha Casa Minha Vida, it was sought to understand how this program was developed in order to remedy homelessness in the country. It was developed action research and ecopedagogy practices, both as means of research, as well as a teaching laboratory for the development of materials and pedagogical methods. Subsequent to the bibliographic study and field research, some possible sustainable solutions for COHAB housing are proposed. Sustainable techniques of Permaculture are presented, which provide a more ecological management in human occupation. There was a practical study of some of these techniques in school space, and with these experiences it was possible to verify that there are many possibilities for creative actions in ecopedagogical education, where different age groups in different spaces (classrooms, squares or streets) can think together about topics related to housing and ecology. All these research processes led to the creation of pedagogical materials and methods, which stimulated ecological literacy and the valorization of ethnobiodiversity. In this journey, it was possible to cooperate and disseminate sustainable techniques, in an academic and popular laboratory that united knowledge in thinking about the "house" and its geographic dimensions (philosophical, environmental and social), exercising collective thinking from scale models and games built and reflected in the COHAB housing study. The journey is a decolonial turn in the dwelling field, space that it is territory and place to educate.