Vai pela sombra!

Abstract

This is a manifesto on the intrinsic relationship between cities afforestation and shading. Trees, large living beings, filter the air, provide shades, block strong winds, serves as shelter for fauna and, depending on the biome, other plant species. However, deforestation, and therefore the lack of urban afforestation, has led to a climate-unsustainable life. This final project, therefore, aims, therefore, to imagine radical reforestation of cities, using the city of Barreiras, Bahia, as its empirical subject. The methodology was based on five axes: literature review, visits to municipal institutions, cartographic analyses, interviews with specialists, and image production. Personal experiences accounts as a resident-walker in a city whose built core presents only twenty percent of vegetation mass, combined with scenes from this everyday life and a theoretical study on the work's theme, led me to imagine a city overrun with vegetation. What I call “desire for green 1” consists of maps that present possibilities for reforestation in the urban area, while “desire for green 2”imagine everyday scenes with asphalt paving – one of the main villain of the so-called “heat islands” in most part of the globe – completely overtaken by trees. Psychoanalytically speaking, desire is what pulsate; and the desires of this work are a small spark on the climate crisis battlefront. They are important allies in envisioning better worlds, with adequate habitability – those with adequate habitability, a topic that should be taken more seriously in the planning of any city