Narratives of a city in ruins: walking with landscapes, educations and multispecies aliances

Abstract

This essay, written in a narrative and experimental mode, seeks to capture alliances that emerge from the urban space and that intersect nature-city-education, composing multispecies landscapes that show us possible ways to think about other-educations. To create a writing in experimentation we made epistemological alliances with the anthropologists Anna Tsingand Donna Haraway and with works from the Field of philosophy of difference by Deleuze and Guattari. In this way, this work was woven as one walks around, crossing the folds of the city, in the alleys, sometimes made of cement, sometimes made of words. We walked with our bodies going up and down the streets, producing a continuous conversation between us and the beings of the cities, human and non-human. These encounters were powerful triggers for the creation of narratives that are expressed through images, texts, spellings, stories, plots that makeup what marked us and made us vibrate along the way. Walking as a method for producing narratives of a city in ruins opens up the possibility of getting to know and also participating in negotiations that produce multi-species landscapes in the city. Producing narratives that allow them to be permeated by the flow of becoming-writing-walking means paying attention as researchers-teachers-artists to listening more than talking, to becoming welcoming of what is small and goes unnoticed, to relearn at all times, of exposing oneself to the unexpected discoveries that will echo not from the great buildings, but from what will be between them, in the cracks they leave in the composition of the landscape that are filled and tightened by human and non-human inhabitants.