The academic community and the general public were able to visit, at the University of Passo Fundo, the exhibition “Rereading the Neighborhood,” inaugurated on December 3rd. The exhibition brought together photographs and records produced by 4th and 5th grade students from EMEF Lions, revealing different ways of perceiving and interpreting the territory through the sensitive gaze of children upon the city, resulting in visual productions that express new readings of it.

The exhibition is the outcome of an activity developed on September 27th by VivA!Emau, in partnership with the extension project Territories of Childhood and with the UNESCO Chair UNITWIN Network – The City that Educates and Transforms. On that occasion, another edition of the project Rereading the Neighborhood was carried out, an initiative that seeks to bring students closer to urban space and to stimulate reflections on belonging, memory, and identity.

By transforming these experiences into an exhibition open to the public, the project expands the dialogue between school, university, and community, valuing children’s protagonism in the construction of knowledge about urban space. For the UNESCO Chair “The City that Educates and Transforms,” initiatives such as this reinforce the importance of educational practices that recognize the city as a pedagogical territory and children as active agents in its interpretation and transformation.

The exhibition “Rereading the Neighborhood” thus reaffirms the institutional commitment to actions that promote integral education, social participation, and the strengthening of bonds among the different actors of the territory.