Inside of the city, outside of the city: stories of a partnership between Associação Morungaba and "PACTO-USP"

Abstract

The partnership between the Morungaba Association and the Permanent Program Artistic Compositions and Occupational Therapy (PACTO) presented in this report takes place in a territory of reciprocal contributions that broaden and make complex the spectrum of actions offered to a population with heterogeneous characteristics by prioritizing those who are in a situation of vulnerability triggered by economic, clinical and/or social issues. A brief assessment of the history of this joint work, its projects and developments evidences its effectiveness in the assistance to the population, in the qualification of occupational therapy students and in the production of studies and researches. Everybody involved in this partnership handles the issues of the so-called third sector inasmuch as new understandings are reached by experiencing the complexity of how things work in the contemporary social environment. Through interventions cooperatively accompanied supervisors, coordinators, art educators and interns dedicate themselves to projects that have taken place in different social and cultural pieces of equipment of the city of São Paulo since 2000, thus stimulating experiences of the territory of interface among the arts, education and healthcare and related to the appropriation of public spaces.