Espaços Outros Que Convivem Nas Escolas

This essay aims to reflect on school as a living space that produces heterotopias, a concept addressed by Michel Foucault (2000, 2001, 2013).Heterotopias, from Foucault's perspective (2013), are other spaces found together in the real space; they are invention spaces that cannot be controlled, precisely because they are not foreseen.At first, they were regarded as a language effect, as we can find in the preface of The order of things, published in 1966; later, they were resumed in Foucault's radiophonic conferences (1966 and 1967), which were published in 1984 under the title Des spaces autres, and posthumously, in 2009, in the book Utopian body.Considering this notion, this writing is an invitation to think of the school as a heterotopic site.An outside space in an inside space.An in-between place, full of activated encounters and potencies, able to invent other spaces in the real space itself, by means of the force that makes us think and perceive the world in different ways, through other lenses.Hence, it has to do with living in other ways in existing places.It involves designing other spaces, heterotopias that enable movements, and spaces with no thoughts, neither at school nor at the university.This requires looking at the space, at the things, at life: designing a resistance space inside a real space.Therefore, it does not mean utopically to create another school, or any other educational space, or even an existence space, but rather create another school in the school itself

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