Care practices to build the Common

Abstract

This study describes an excerpt from a research carried out from a cartographic experience at the Procomum Laboratory in Santos and seeks to structure a reflection on comprehensive care practices to construct the Common. It offers a bibliographic and theoretical excerpt about the Common, characterizes Citizen Innovation Laboratories, and brings a theoretical perspective on Body and Care. A cartography built from experiences, reports, memories, conversations, and narratives was used as its methodology. The material was organized into axes of what would be a “dream device” for care: the feminine, management, practices, territory, and emergency. As its result, this research finds care as embodied as a collective practice of listening, exchange, networks, minor gestures, and presence.