In the Planet Home online cycle, we explore the meanings of home from different perspectives, reflecting on the plurality of ways of inhabiting our planet. Shelters, cocoons, boxes, bodies, skins, signs, transformations: what are homes? What are the different experiences of living in the world like?

This is what Emanuele Coccia, Ailton Krenak, Luiz Zerbini, Muniz Sodré, Julia Sá Earp, Cristine Takuá, Rita Carelli and Júlia de Carvalho Hansen reflect on over the course of a prologue and four chapters.

The complete cycle can be accessed via the Selvagem Youtube channel. This cycle also includes 6 notebooks, available for free download on our website.

ABOUT THE CYCLE

Prologue: suspending the word home – Julia Sá Earp
Philosophy of the Home and other parangolés – Emanuele Coccia, Ailton Krenak, Muniz Sodré and Luiz Zerbini
Home fire body – Rita Carelli and Cristine Takuá
Home cosmos kitchen – Júlia de Carvalho Hansen and Emanuele Coccia
Transformation, family and communities – Emanuele Coccia and Rita Carelli

This cycle unfolds the talks held at the launches of the book Filosofia da casa [Philosophy of the home], by Emanuele Coccia, published by Dantes Editora in October 2024 at Tropigalpão, Rio de Janeiro, and Casa do Povo, São Paulo.

This cycle is also inspired by the PLANET HOME immersion with Selvagem and the Living Schools at Casa do Povo, which took place in São Paulo during the month of October 2024. Over four weeks of activities, we experimented with the meaning of home in different layers: the original territory that sleeps under the city floor, the space-time of Casa do Povo, the city infrastructures that surround it and a final layer linked to a Living School garden designed and built with the participants.

Find out more about the book Filosofia da Casa [Philosophy of the Home] and the Planet Home in-person meetings below.

PLANET HOME IMMERSION IN CASA DO POVO

Investigating the geological, chronological and chronic layers of the Planet Home. This was the theme of the 4th edition of CASA-ESCOLA [SCHOOL-HOME], held in 2024 in partnership with Selvagem - cycle of studies about life and Living Schools. Every year, Casa do Povo's pedagogical project tries out a new format in cycles aimed at collective, engaged and experimental practices, with activities open to the public and a study group through an open call. 

From 3 to 26 October, Planet Home brought together at Casa do Povo different spheres of learning that articulate indigenous and non-indigenous, traditional, scientific, academic, artistic and other kinds of memories and knowledge. Re-establishing a connection with something as essential as knowing where you are and recognising the place where you live or pass through was the aim of this educational cycle, which also invited people to take a trip to the Yvy, as the Guarani call the land and territory.

Over four weeks, the cycle explored the meaning of home through various layers: the ancestral territory that lies beneath the city’s ground, the space-time of Casa do Povo, the city’s surrounding infrastructure, and a final layer centred on a Living School garden designed and built alongside participants. Activities were free and included immersive experiences, visits, conversations, shared meals, and the collective creation of maps.

In the context of these actions, we also launched Filosofia da Casa [Philosophy of the Home], a new book by Italian philosopher Emanuele Coccia, published by Dantes Editora, featuring drawings by Luiz Zerbini. The launches took place in Rio de Janeiro on October 23 at Tropigalpão, and in São Paulo on October 26 at Casa do Povo. With Selvagem, Emanuele also published the book Metamorfoses [Metamorphoses] (Dantes, 2020) and participated in several conversations and gatherings, which are available on our YouTube channel.

Below you'll find details of the in-person programme and a gallery with records of each week's activities and the book launch.

WEEK 1 – YVY OKE: TERRITORY SLEEPS

The meetings of this first week aimed to re-establish the connection with something as essential as knowing where you are. Assigning meaning to the names of neighbourhoods, streets, rivers, parks, and valleys is an important key to raising awareness of our origins. A map was created based on the study of Indigenous toponymy by Carlos Papá of the Guarani Mbya people.

03/10 (Thursday) – 8 PM to 10 PM
Open conversation with the public about cartography and the territory of São Paulo, featuring Carlos Papá, Cafira Zoé, Camila Mota (Teatro Oficina), Daniel Caballero, Zé Bueno, and Luiz Campos Jr. (Ruas e Rios).

05/10 (Saturday) – 2 PM to 6 PM
Collective painting of a map of Nhë’ery with Carlos Papá. Open to the public, for children and adults.

NHË’ERY, where the spirits bathe, is how the Guarani name the territory often referred to as the Brazilian Atlantic Forest, a place sustained by water, Y, inhabited by ijás, the guardians of beings, responsible for the trees, animals, and all elements of nature.
In this activity, the attending public participated in the drawing of a map based on research into Indigenous toponyms in the territory of São Paulo.

Week 2: YVY CASA [Yvy House]

What we are
The house of the people of the house
Who is Casa do Povo [People’s House]

Casa do Povo, with all its porosity, was the focus of this week. Participants explored the ecology of practices that make up the ever-expanding community of Casa do Povo, engaging with its networks, coincidences, synchronicities, differences, and complementarities.

Invitation-visits were conducted for each Povo da Casa project, featuring activities such as yoga, boxing, chess, and more.

10/10 (Thursday) – 8 PM to 10 PM – Film Screening: Regenerating Life [open to the public]
Public screening of the film "Regenerating Life: A New Look at the Climate Crisis by John Feldman. The film features interviews with various activists and researchers on topics such as agroecology, collaborative cultures, environmental regeneration, and other themes that intersect with Selvagem’s studies, particularly in the book Regenerantes de Gaia [Regenerants of Gaia] (Dantes, 2019) by Fabio Scarano.

Week 3: YVY CASA CIDADE [Yvy House City]

The world’s design we inherit does not always represent us. During the third week of Planeta-Casa, we were guided by the question: "What have we become?" Alongside the collectives Salve Saracura and Saracura Vai-Vai, we walked through the neighbourhoods of Bixiga, Bela Vista, and Bom Retiro, paying attention to the waters buried beneath the city's asphalt and reflecting on waste production and management in the urban environment.

19/10 (Saturday) – 2 PM to 6 PM: collective creation of a city model made with recycled waste, an activity open to the public of all ages and facilitated by Veronica Pinheiro.

Week 4: YVY CASA CIDADE JARDIM ESCOLA VIVA [[Yvy House City Garden Living School]

Every garden is the epicentre of a land. The Earth is not flat. In the fourth week, we concluded this study cycle of CASA-ESCOLA.

26/10 (Saturday) – 11 AM to 1 PM: launch of the book Filosofia da Casa [Philosophy of the Home], by Emanuele Coccia at Casa do Povo.
Book signing and a discussion circle exploring different perspectives on homes and their cultural and social relevance, featuring Emanuele Coccia, Cristine Takuá, Isael Maxakali, Júlia de Carvalho Hansen, and Rita Carelli.

26/10 (Saturday) – 2 PM to 6 PM: Planting of a garden on the ground floor of Casa do Povo.

Photos: Fred Siewerdt