Towards an urban/rural environmental relationship in the metropolis: about teaching and actions

Abstract

This article presents the concepts, objectives, methodology and the results of a teaching experience realized in Final Graduation Works during long period, on the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism at the Catholic University of Campinas, whose concern is guided by no dissociation between teaching-research-extension. Through community participation and collaboration, the processes are articulated in understanding assumptions about voluntary extension and the implementation of concrete actions in socio-spatial fragile territories devoid of basic infrastructure and living conditions, the metropolitan peripheral fronds continuous to rural areas and environmental preservation tensing the relations man x man and man x nature in search of new paradigms.