Workshops of activities, dynamics, and projects in social occupational therapy as a strategy to foster public spaces

Abstract

The objective is to reflect upon Hannah Arendt’s theory on workshops of activities, dynamics, and projects in social occupational therapy as a strategy to foster public spaces. Based on the analysis of a teaching, research, and university extension experience during which the participants of weekly workshops held with poor young people for one year were objectified. Based on field notes and interviews with participants, the workshops were analyzed as a potential promotion of living spaces to practice equality and sociability’s interconnection regarding its plurality, visibility of socially vulnerable subjects and their demands, freedom to participate in decision-making processes and learnings regarding collective life and citizenship, being able to help foster public spaces in multiple social experiences.