Visit to the Children’s World, a park built inside the preserved area of the dam that supplies water to Jundiaí and administered by the DAE. The Children’s World represents the achievement of the conceptions about infancy that underpin the several public policies the municipality has been developing since 2018.

Visit to the Little House of Play project at Sesc Jundiaí, a place reserved for plays and conceived by the wishes of the children who attend the Unit, and developed through bio-constructive techniques like adobe, hyper-adobe, and demolition wood.

Sesc Jundiaí is part of a 44 units network in the State of São Paulo from the Social Service of Commerce, which develops actions that intend to promote well-being and quality of life to the workers of commerce, service, tourism, and to the society as a whole.

Public elementary school from the municipality of Sao Paulo, it’s a reference regarding the naturalization of spaces and the political and pedagogical project. Winner of several awards, including Educational Territories, promoted by Tomie Ohtake Institute, and the Challenge 2030 Award – Schools Changing Our World, promoted by Akatu Institute, 5 Elements Institute, Reconectta, and Virada Sustentável. The school has also participated in the Biennial of Childhood’s Architecture in Spain.

Guided tour by the school’s students, who will introduce the yard and the educational facilities linked with nature.

In this meeting, everybody is invited to participate in a joint effort at the school, to put their hands on the earth and contribute to managing natural spaces.

Visit to Casa Ubá and Puri Educational Space, two educational spaces aligned with the Playful Backyards Movement, which is dedicated to welcoming children between 1 and 7 years old with an attentive and sensitive look. Contact with nature in these places is daily and intentional.

Casa Ubá offers time and space to expand the capacity to understand themselves and others through plays, inventions, and investigations. The Puri Educational Space provides a sensible and welcoming educational environment.

In this meeting, everyone is invited to participate in the workshop Natures: Inside and Out in Us, conducted by Casa Ubá and Puri educators and held at the Owl’s Community Vegetable Garden.

Guided tour by the students of a private elementary school, Ágora School, which operates in a 25,000m² in Cotia. Each corner is full of possibilities and meanings to the educational community, and the architecture favors encounters, autonomy, and self-regulation.

Visit to Oca Cultural School, an organization created in 1996 in the surroundings of a historical heritage – the Jesuit Village of Carapicuíba – aiming to guarantee children, teens, and young people the right to integral development through Brazilian art and popular culture.

Participation in a Brazilian Childhood Culture Toys workshop, using natural elements, at OCA Cultural School.

Sesc Interlagos was inaugurated in 1975 and has an area of 500.000 m². Considered a Park Unit, it is located on the banks of the Billings Dam in the heart of southern São Paulo. Among other cultural facilities, it has a Playful Garden, an accessible vegetable garden, a plant nursery, and a thicket of Mata Atlântica.

The Playful Garden is a natural playground built from interventions that have prioritized the use of natural materials and the maximum use of local resources (pruning woods, vines, straw, bamboo, seeds, and foliage). Idealized by the Education Agents team, the people who work in the Unit’s vivariums, by the educator Guilherme Blauth, and by Ciranda da Vida, the main goal of the space is to offer a diversity of elements that enable multiple ways of interaction.

During the visit, a report/experience about the Playful Garden and a workshop about Risk Management in Recreational and Educational Outdoor Activities, including conceptual and practical approaches, will be offered.

At the city center, in front of an area recently transformed by tactical urbanism interventions, the Japy Childhood Factory is a space focused on artistic, formative, creative, and reflective experiments on games and childhoods. It has a natural playspace encompassing outdoor play furnishings developed from trunks, branches, leaves, earth, sand, and rocks, in which children can have contact with nature in their spontaneous play.

On this visit, the group will have a chat with some of the children who are part of the Children’s Committee, a group established by the Municipality of Jundiaí in 2018, when the organ joined the Latin American Network – Cidade das Crianças. In addition, a circular dance workshop will be offered.

Known as Bosquinho, or Little Grove, the space was reopened to the population in 2021 after a construction work of revitalization. It has a significant green area and a spring. The EMEBs Brígida Gatto Rodrigues and Alvarina Barbosa Martins students share its use.

Visit to a public area requalified by Mogi das Cruzes’ town hall that won a project for a natural playspace. The project includes the recuperation of a spring, and it has been accomplished through a partnership between the architecture office Sem Muros, Urban95 initiative, Ciranda da Vida, and Alana Institute.

The Center of Environmental Education (CEA, in Portuguese) of Sesc Mogi das Cruzes presents the relationships between field-city as a thematic cut, using permaculture as one of the possible ways to build more ecologically balanced and socially just futures.The space invites the visitors to dialogue and think about possible futures and experimentation on their agroecological vegetable garden, the agroforestry system, the rain garden, and many other structures that invite people to strengthen their ties with nature.

During this visit, it will be offered an experience to make adobe bricks conducted by the Sítio Olho D’Água team.

Since the participation of the Municipal Secretariat for Environment of Sao Paulo City Hall in the implementation of the natural playgrounds at the Horácio Sabino Square, some city parks, like the Itaim Natural Park, a protect area at the south zone of Sao Paulo, began the construction of their own natural playgrounds. Today five parks have natural playgrounds.

This visit will include a workshop conducted by the Itaim Park’s team about the use of residue and pruning in natural playgrounds implemented by the Municipal Secretariat for Environment, maintenance, and construction of play structures.

Visit to spaces occupied by childhood in the Jardim Helena and Jardim Pantanal communities, located in the east zone of Sao Paulo.A natural playground has been implemented at Parque Helena , conceived by Alana’s Children and Nature program in partnership with Espaço Alana, Ciranda da Vida, the Urbanizar program, and the Secretary of Infrastructure and Environment of the State of Sao Paulo.

Espaço Alana, located at Jardim Pantanal for 29 years, aims to promote local development through socio-educational and community actions, with activities that promote leisure, culture, and communal strengthening.

In 2022, the space received the pilot project TiNis – Terra das Crianças, intending to encourage the bond between children and nature by planting seeds. The meeting will have a workshop about TiNis which will include activities with natural paints, stamps, and planting.

Visit to two green areas in the east zone of the municipality of Sao Paulo.

The Fazenda do Carmo Municipal Natural Park is inserted in the Park and Fazenda do Carmo Environmental Protection Area, and it’s the first fully preserved area created in the capital of Sao Paulo, in an urban environment. It has a space open to the public that includes a natural playground, built collectively from listening to the community.

Located at a 350.000 m2 area, Sesc Itaquera offers a natural landscape and remaining areas of Mata Atlântica forest. Considered a Unit Park, it has installed two playful pieces of equipment on its premises: the Magical Orchestra and Forest Animals.

Forest Animals, projected by the architect Márcia Maria Benevento, integrates caverns, mountains, a suspension bridge, a viewpoint, and gigantic sculptures of animals into a natural landscape, magnifying the contact with nature and the adventurous spirit.

In this encounter, the group will be invited to experience activities aimed at childhood and to participate in a round table to reflect on how children deal with and recreate the meanings and learning when in contact with natural areas.