How Children Behave in Public Spaces – Squares and Parks of Ji-Paraná / Rondônia
Childhood. Inventive Play. Nature. Public Spaces.
This writing stirred thoughts and inventions, promoting a re-encounter with the childlike way. Casting a gaze without pre-determined proposals allowed us to perceive the exploration of children in everyday spaces amidst nature, where infinite possibilities are built from play. The research was conducted in open spaces frequented by families in the city of Ji-Paraná, Rondônia, in public spaces intended for leisure. The experience took place with children of all ages, with diverse interactions with others and with the environment. To delve into this research, which is based on the perspective of cartography as a research-intervention method with Passos; Kastrup, and Escóssia (1999, 2007, 2009), articulated with Deleuze and Guattari's (1995) concept of rhizome, understanding research as an accompaniment of processes and the production of reality, with its multiple connections, unpredictable and continuous trajectories, with contributions on play and children's culture by Kishimoto (2010), as well as dialogues with texts that intertwine with childhood as a political and aesthetic dimension of existence, such as Benjamin (1984), Agamben (2005), Kohan (2010) and Larrosa (2002), Barros (2011), Chisté (2015), Leite (2011), Corsaro (2011). The results will be with the main subjects, engaged in the production of images – filmic and photographic, with their investigation of detailed observations, about what they are observing and experiencing behind the lenses of a camera, which today is intrinsic, in the junction with the means of communication. The results show that natural spaces enhance inventive experiences, favoring symbolic practices, fabulations and schizo-learning processes (Kastrup, 1999), in which play emerges as a production of meaning and reinvention of the everyday. In this investigative process, the contributions are from the children, in a journey conducted with seriousness, creativity and imagination, composing a writing that is born from these encounters in the child's way.