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How can we weave cooperative and regenerative worlds in big cities? How do we find practices that deviate from the march of civilizing progress destined to lead us to ruins? How do we speculate other imaginaries of the future of human habitation, taking into account that it is ancestral and it can only be done with practices in the present? How do we turn the university and the city into a collective space of affective experiences that takes into consideration joy and care for other beings that cohabit the territories with us?
These are some of the questions that follow the path of this extension program that works alongside the communities and the research group and the homonymous atelier of the Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo of the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. In the face of climate crises, rethinking cities becomes an urgent task. Rio de Janeiro is a voracious consumer of resources and a major producer of waste, pollution and exclusion. To rethink this large urban agglomeration from the perspective of the forest is to learn to be a forest with the Atlantic Forest, with local community experiences and with Afro-Amerindian sensibilities. Instead of being destructive, human habitation can be a part of a web of collaborative life between different species and contribute to a cyclical economy that produces life with existential and poetic diversity. Such a perspective questions the hegemonic practices of planning, designing and building environments. Facing the Anthropocene, the forest and the city can cease to be antagonistic ideas and start to establish healing relationships in human settlements.

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