Other language game as a theoretical-methodological proposal for reading places

The article presents a theoretical-methodological proposition aimed at understanding urban dynamics through the incorporation of the narratives of the inhabitants who occupy and produce the spaces of daily life. Critical to the categories, concepts, indicators and indexes of urban planning, architecture and urbanism and especially to the way they are normally used, the article proposes to transform the diagnosis of territory that is part of the current decision- making processes related to the production of the city, into a reading of place that allows for a different language game in the contemporary political arena. In this direction, the article presents the lines of analysis associated with the field observations and literature that come close to the concepts of reading and place in three disciplinary fields - education, human geography and urban design -, linking them to the spheres form in the territory, activity in the territory and sense of the inhabitant. In short, according to a critical approach, in some extent phenomenological, the proposal aims to decrypt the city through a series of lines of analysis that understand the territory from the perspective of those who live and occupy it, leading to a possible disruption of the valued institutional, technical and academic narratives in force.