Jardins possíveis

Abstract

Gardens are microcosms of infinite, a cosmology (MOMGIN, 2013). What worlds do gardens reveal today that can contaminate architecture and urbanism in their modern and anthropocentric practices? The starting point of the thesis is the understanding of gardens historically, of the gardens researched as a possibility and also of the Brazilian history of the relationship between living beings. The research territories were chosen based on the understanding of water and the hydrographic basin as an essential unit for life and thinking about space. The possible gardens chosen for the thesis are those where people relate directly in its construction as well as these other living beings forming territories of "topobiorelational" symbiosis, multispecies(TISING, 2019) collectives, present in cities with the power to recreate it when they r-exist (MIGNOLO, 2004) or by becoming real. From the garden key, the research was developed in an attempt to understand how humans and non-humans relate. For research, the possible is associated with the characteristic of procreation already latent in the territory and power with a regime of visibility and invisibility that invents and concatenates narratives (BERARDI, 2019). In this sense, the proposal is to criticize urban planning as a critique of the visibilities regime, therefore, a critique of an anthropocentric form of power, operated also by major concepts and narratives such as sustainability and sustainable development. The ideas of nature, ecology and ecological movement will also be discussed in light of the worlds of gardens. From this, the research investigates the cosmopolitical (STENGERS, 2004) possibility of architecture and urbanism with non-humans, based on affective alliances and confluences present in the overflowing of gardens. Contributions towards the ideas of Living Earth, Gaia and cosmopolitical confluences will be pointed out. The gardens made visible are structured by care, love and religiosity. They are feminine, the meeting place of the different, memories repository of the out-of-order world, place of ancestry, safeguarding the land knowledge. They are possible microcosms, fragmentary and also planetary where the recognition of non-hegemonic cosmovisions works as examples of microcosmopolitics against colonials (BISPO DOS SANTOS, 2015). Among water, soil, sun, wind, animals and plants there are gardens as multispecies possibilities of exemplary futures raised as investigative hypotheses for architecture and urbanism in the conclusion.