“Conversation” of Subjects, City and Tourism. Ropositions for Lovingness, Autopoiesis and the Reverse Side of Tourism

Abstract

The text presents an experience report, with social actors of the third age, members of the Group Viver Bem, of the Serviço de Convivência e Fortalecimento de Vínculos do Centro de Referência de Assistência Social da cidade de Farroupilha/RS, who, through art workshops, they were invited to experience and produce narratives of place. This is a transdisciplinary study, from the perspective of ecosystem complexity. As a methodology, the research is based on the methodological strategy Cartography of Knowledge, proposed by Baptista (2014a), which seeks to break with the separation of subject and object in research, bringing differentiated proximity instruments for doing science. The combination of theoretical work and the various operational investigation procedures allows us to perceive some flags for the construction of lovingness and autopoiesis and what, in Amorcomtur!; we call’ the Reverse side of Tourism’, based on Baptista’s proposition, that is, Tourism guided by Ecosystem Responsibility and in line with the objectives of the 2030 Agenda. The results of the ongoing studies indicate that, in the Group Viver Bem, at that particular moment, the artistic production, entangled in a set of practices and social interactions, was necessary to change ways of living and interacting and this implied that the subjects (re)see, (re)organize, (re)build themselves, to (re)perceive in the relationships “between” the subjects with the city and tourism. It was also noticed that the “conversation” made possible the ‘recognition of the other as a legitimate other in coexistence’, enhancing the ethics of the relations and the ecosystem responsibility, expressed by the experiences, and transcribed in narratives.