Summary
This research is linked to the Graduate Program in Teaching of Humanities and Languages at the Franciscan University (UFN), developed within the research line "Teaching and Teaching Practices." In this context, we propose the perspective that Itaimbé Park—one of the main public spaces in Santa Maria—can be configured as a multiple educating territory within the city's urban center, based on the potential pedagogical activation of its different spaces and knowledge. To this end, we adopted a research methodology consisting of a literature review on urbanism, cartography, and "caminhografia" (walkography), as well as urban walkography itself, which emerges as a subsidiary method of cartography.
Individual and collective walks were conducted in the park. The collective walks involved the groups "Mapeando Memórias" (Mapping Memories) and "[com]Vida," both from UFN, to map the practices of space and the invisible urbanities emerging from the territory. These walks were recorded in "experience notebooks" (field journals) that supported the development of "type-figures," which are representations of daily urban experience. From these, we extracted eight possible themes for the construction of a matrix of (in)visible knowledge of the territory and the park’s micro-territories.
With this matrix, we concluded that the park holds a wealth of educational potential that can be intentionally mobilized through an "(in)visible curriculum of knowledge" of the territory. When pedagogically activated, this can lead to the establishment of the park as a potential educating territory in the city of Santa Maria/RS.