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Abstract

This research project was born two years ago following an emotional decline, in a depressive episode, for which my mother gave me a plant with the intention of caring for it, a therapeutic practice widely studied as horticultural therapy or horticultural therapy. This practice produces in me a personal discovery of fragility, grief, and a search for healing. From this intimate experience arises the need to share space with plants, not from a decorative gesture, but from care, contemplation, silence, deceleration in the urban context and the tensions that this produces. In this process, the home ceases to be perceived as a neutral container and begins to reveal itself as a spatial structure organized primarily as a function of humans, limited by material, social, and economic conditions that affect coexistence with non-human beings. Thus, the daily care of plants is understood as a material practice that allows to highlight spatial, affective and political tensions of domestic living. It is then when the daily care of plants is not a decorative gesture, but reveals the spatial tensions, materials and policies of domestic living. The central problem revolves around how we can from care practice create more reciprocal and conscious relationships with non-beingshumans, particularly with plants in a context that limits the use of space to humans and the organization of this to social and economic structures that I experience in my own home.