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The article discusses the role of documentary cinema as inspiration for the development of sensitive collaborative methodologies in interdisciplinary fields, such as collective health, involving the approximation between scientists, filmmakers, and social movements around health and environmental problems. The article is anchored on the notion of making common used by Paulo Freire and in the work of Boaventura de Sousa Santos, called Epistemologies of the South, and his proposal to decolonize knowledge, which includes the realization of ecology of knowledges. From such references, the documentary is reflected beyond an artistic and authorial work based on science, but as an emergence of new epistemes and knowledge connected to social struggles and emancipatory processes that can inspire theoreticalmethodological renewal in the production of knowledges. In the article, we selected two documentaries that address the struggles against capitalist agriculture and the effects of the intensive use of pesticides, as well as the promotion of agroecology and agrarian reform as alternatives for fairer, healthier, and more sustainable societies. As a result, the analysis of those documentaries demonstrates the potential of bringing together science, politics, art, and ethics as interdisciplinary and intercultural practices of co-labor-action, co-production, and co-creation.

RESUMO O artigo discute o papel do cinema documentário como inspiração para o desenvolvimento de metodologias sensíveis co-labor-ativas em campos interdisciplinares como a saúde coletiva, envolvendo a aproximação entre cientistas, cineastas e movimentos sociais em torno de problemas de saúde e ambiente. O artigo ancora-se na noção de tornar comum usada por Paulo Freire, e na obra de Boaventura de Sousa Santos denominada de epistemologias do Sul e sua proposta para descolonizar o conhecimento, o que inclui a realização de ecologias de saberes. A partir de tais referenciais, o documentário é refletido para além de uma obra artística e autoral apoiado na ciência, mas enquanto emergência de novas epistemes e saberes conectados a lutas sociais e processos emancipatórios que podem inspirar a renovação teórico-metodológica na produção de conhecimentos. No artigo, selecionaram-se dois documentários que versam sobre as lutas contra a agricultura capitalista e os efeitos do uso intensivo de agrotóxicos, assim como a promoção da agroecologia e da reforma agrária como alternativas para sociedades mais justas, saudáveis e sustentáveis. Como resultado, a análise de tais documentários demonstra o potencial de reunir ciência, política, arte e ética enquanto práticas interdisciplinares e interculturais de co-labor-ação, coprodução e cocriação.

This article discusses theoretical, methodological and political issues related to urban greening in the Global South, as well as emancipatory alternatives to envisioning more inclusive, democratic, sustainable and healthy cities. We sustain that the role of traditional and peasant peoples and communities – including indigenous, quilombolas and others - is strategic for thinking about alternatives and actions aimed at the paradigmatic transition that surpasses the vision of Eurocentric modernity. It generates artificial barriers that divide countryside and cities, society and nature, life and economy, as well as subjects and objects in producing and sharing knowledge. These peoples and communities designates a diversity of social situations that have as a common denominator conditions of existence considered to contrast with “modernity,” situated on the margins of the representations of “development” and “progress” of the hegemonic economic and political powers. Our arguments are empirically based on experiences developed in Brazil with interdisciplinary and intercultural dialogues carried out in recent years. The events called “Meetings of Knowledges” brought together academic groups and different social movements and community organizations involving social struggles and topics such as health, environmental conflicts and justice, food security and sovereignty, agroecology, among others. These meetings intend to enhance intercultural and interdisciplinary interactions between agents working together in different territories with concrete knowledges and experiences. The contents generated by the debates held at these events and their developments depict social experiences that reinforce the underlying hypothesis behind this article: the social struggles involving the interaction between traditional and agricultural populations with urban spaces in the Global South provide important evidence for research agendas about emerging emancipatory processes related to urban greening. In the first part of the text, we analyze the historical, social and epistemological meaning of indigenous, quilombola and peasant peoples in the Brazilian context, analyzing both recent contradictions and threats, as well as their role in the emergence of ongoing emancipatory agendas, including interaction with cities. Finally, we show examples related to social struggles, first of an indigenous ethnic group in the Amazon region, and then in two big Brazilian cities, involving social movements and community organizations that integrate actions for decent housing, sanitation, health care, and food along with the rescue of ancestral knowledge.

Este artigo discute a proposição de metodologias colaborativas não extrativistas e sua relação com a comunicação a partir da obra de Boaventura de Sousa Santos. Partindo de autores como Orlando Fals Borda e Paulo Freire, Santos questiona as metodologias qualitativas que extraem conhecimentos apartados das lutas sociais e não reconhecem os saberes dos sujeitos investigados. A partir desse referencial e de uma pesquisa sobre documentários produzidos no contexto das lutas sociais contra os agrotóxicos e pela agroecologia, buscamos levantar possibilidades metodológicas relacionais que apontem para processos de co-labor-ação e co-criação. A construção de novas narrativas e conhecimentos dilui fronteiras entre ciência e arte, ao mesmo tempo que resgata e avança na perspectiva freiriana da comunicação enquanto um tornar comum. Entrevistas narrativas e contação de histórias da literatura oral são exemplos dados no artigo que apontam para uma abordagem teórico-poética como alternativa. This article discusses the proposal of non-extractive collaborative methodologies and their relationship to the communication based on the works of Boaventura de Sousa Santos. Based on authors such as Orlando Fals Borda and Paulo Freire, Santos questions qualitative methodologies which extract knowledge that is separated from social struggles, and also they not recognize the knowledge of the investigated subjects. Based on this reference and a research on documentaries produced in the context of social struggles against pesticides and agroecology, we seek to raise methodological relational possibilities that point to processes of co-labor-action and co-creation. The construction of new narratives and knowledge dilutes the rigid boundaries between science and art; moreover, it restores and advances in the Freirean perspective to become the communication a common action. Narrative interviews and storytelling of oral literature are examples given in this article that point to a theoretical poetic approach as an alternative to qualitative methodology. Este artículo discute la proposición de metodologías colaborativas no extractivistas y su relación con la comunicación a partir de la obra de Boaventura de Sousa Santos. Basado en autores como Orlando Fals Borda y Paulo Freire, Santos cuestiona las metodologías cualitativas que extraen conocimientos apartados de las luchas sociales, al mismo tiempo que no reconocen los saberes de los sujetos investigados. A partir de ese referencial y de una investigación sobre documentales producidos en el contexto de las luchas sociales contra los agrotóxicos y la agroecología, buscamos levantar posibilidades metodológicas relacionales que apunten a procesos de co-labor-acción y co-creación. La construcción de nuevas narrativas y conocimientos diluye fronteras entre ciencia y arte, al mismo tiempo que recobra y avanza en la perspectiva freireana de la comunicación mientras un hacer común. Entrevistas narrativas y narraciones de cuentos de la literatura oral son ejemplos dados en el artículo que apuntan para un enfoque teórico poético como alternativa.

O artigo aborda a potencialidade da produção audiovisual, em especial o documentário, como estratégia de lutas sociais envolvendo dimensões comunicacionais e epistemológicas. Referencia-se na produção recente de documentários que resultou de alianças realizadas no Brasil entre movimentos sociaisdo campo, cineastas e grupos militantes de investigação em torno das lutas contra as consequências do agronegócio e dos agrotóxicos, assim como a favor da agricultura camponesa e agroecológica. Tais lutas evidenciam a relação intrínseca entre as dimensões comunicacional e epistemológica: a negociação e luta dos sentidos se dá por processos eminentemente comunicacionais, ao mesmo tempo que potencializam a construção de epistemologias do Sul. Temas como alimentação, terra, reforma agrária e o reencontro entre produção, trabalho e natureza possibilitam diluir fronteiras entre ciência, política, cultura e arte. Argumentamos que o cinema, por suas potencialidades criativas de expressão, dialogicidade e polifonia, propicia novas formas de compreender e expressar temas complexos e sensíveis. The article discusses the potential of audiovisual production, especially the documentary, as a strategy of social struggles involving communicational and epistemological dimensions. It refers to the recent production of documentaries that resulted from alliances made in Brazil amongst rural social movements, filmmakers and activist research groups around the struggles against the consequences of agribusiness and pesticides, as well as in favor of peasant and agroecological agriculture. Such struggles highlight the intrinsic relationship between the communicational and epistemological dimensions: the negotiation and struggle of meanings takes place through eminently communicational processes, at the same time that they potentiate the construction of epistemologies of the South. Topics such as food, land, agrarian reform and the reencounter between production, labour and nature make possible to merge the boundaries between science, politics, culture and art. We argue that cinema, through its creative potentialities of expression, dialogicity and polyphony, provides new ways of understanding and expressing complex and sensitive themes.

Este artigo tem por objetivo discutir a relevância da arte de contar histórias, integrada a outras linguagens de arte e expressão enquanto prática pedagógica desencadeadora de processos criativos e de autoconhecimento no âmbito da educação básica. O artigo está organizado em duas partes: a primeira aborda as bases conceituais da arte-educação e da arte de contar histórias; e a segunda relata experiências profissionais de um dos autores, desenvolvidas entre 1998 e 2006, no âmbito da chamada "Oficina Escola de Arte Granada", envolvendo atividades complementares à escola com alunos e professores de escolas públicas no município de Nova Friburgo, Rio de Janeiro. Tais experiências reforçam a importância de buscar alternativas pedagógicas para o desenvolvimento de escolas criativas e transformadoras da realidade, que estimulem alunos mais autônomos e futuros cidadãos. This article discusses the relevance of the art of storytelling integrated to other art languages and expressions As a teaching practice which can promote creative and self-knowledge processes in the context of basic education. The article is organized in two parts: firstly we approach the conceptual bases of art-education and the art of storytelling; secondly we explain some professional experiences developed by one of the authors between 1998 and 2006 related to the "Granada School of Art", an educational organization dedicated to art education and storytelling, involving complementary activities to formal education with students and teachers from public schools in the municipality of Nova Friburgo, Rio de Janeiro State. Such experiences reinforce the importance of looking for pedagogic alternatives to the development of creative and engaged schools that generate autonomy and citizenship among students.