The urban community gardens of Campeche: methodology of collective subject discourse

Abstract

This article, which is part of an ongoing research entitled "Urban Gardens: an alternative for sustainability and for the transformation of the urban landscape", is the result of a pilot study carried out with the community members of the Urban Community Gardens in the Campeche neighborhood, in the city of Florianópolis, in order to identify the main benefits, difficulties, predominant public and what is the general perception that users have of the Urban Community Gardens. It is believed that the evaluation of these community spaces by its own regulators and maintainers is of great value because, thereby, it is possible to identify and understand how the process runs, what is being done and what changes are necessary to improve the movement as a whole. The research of qualitative approach involved the accomplishment of 10 interviews with open questions with participants of the Urban Community Gardens, some quite active and others less active, at Campeche neighborhood in the city of Florianópolis. The methodology used to analyze the interviews results was the Collective Subject Discourse (CSD), a method by which Key Expressions, Central Ideas and/or similar Anchors are removed and after that a single discourse is constructed for the whole that answered the interview. Thus, in general, the interviewees' perception was quite heterogeneous: all agree that Urban Community Gardens are much more related to integration - with the community, with nature and with oneself - than with subsistence in food production and other benefits, which are not few - according to the interviewees themselves - they are consequence of this integration that the rescued contact with nature and origins.