O comum urbano como satisfator sinérgico? O caso da horta Morro Verde, Vila das Antenas, Belo Horizonte

Abstract

The hegemonic production of the city, based on the accumulation of capital, reveals increasing processes of privatization and positions the city as a commodity to be consumed. Against the current of capitalist accumulation, one can perceive the emergence of more collaborative forms of use and management of urban resources and the city itself, based on collective inventiveness, located in the theoretical and practical field of the urban commons. This study aims to explore the value of the urban commons as a synergistic satisfier of fundamental human needs, taking as reference a community Garden, located in the favela Morro das Pedras, called Morro Verde, which, even permeated by contradictions, extrapolates the capitalist logic and promotes ways of living in the city based on collaboration. To this end, interviews and participant observation were conducted. Through deductive thematic analysis of the testimonies and notes made during the observations, the potential of the urban commons to synergistically satisfy the fundamental human needs of subsistence, protection, affection, understanding, participation, idleness, creation, identity, and freedom was verified. Understanding the value of everyday spaces maintained by informal cooperation relationships allows for a new perspective on peripheral practices.