ANDAREGUEAR: Una apuesta por el derecho a la ciudad-ruralidad con niñas, niños y adolescentes

Abstract

The present investigation starts from asking about the access to the city-rurality by children and adolescents who have constantly been excluded in the constructions on the territory, limiting the approach to significant encounters and other knowledge. In this way, Andareguear is an invitation to meet others and oneself in a shared setting, to explore, feel, create, narrate the mountain and narrate oneself in it. This is how it is proposed to analyze the experience of walking, taking as reference: the initial perceptions of this population group in the rural urban edge of Bogotá; the sensitive experiences fostered in each of the meetings and tours in three mountains (Ciudad Bolívar, Sumapaz, Usme); Finally, the reflective recovery of what was experienced. With this exercise, it is possible to account for various narratives and knowledge of what it means to inhabit this area of the city, building knowledge and appropriation of its social practices from the heart of the steps and conversations that occur while walking. Andareguear having conversations with children and adolescents in the mountains of the southern edge is also an act of resistance, since the walkers took their time, opposing time taking them. The encounters and the hours were theirs, their peaceful walk restored the thickness of their presence in the world, becoming a powerful instrument that took us into another type of encounter with the landscape and the territory.