On trip: capturing bodily displacements in a city that educates

Abstract

The paper portrays traces of the drama experienced by children and adolescents from Medellin (Columbia). It presents the genesis and direction of a journey through a methodology of drifting applied by the research group «Bodily Practices, Society, Education-Curriculum» in their investiga- tions, especially in the processes of research training advanced over the last seven years. This formative research experience explores the resigni cation of institutionalized and non-institutionalized ludic-corporal practices and their meaning in the con guration and recon guration of the social fabric of the city. Finally, the article documents social situations, practices from the city captured by the traveler’s lens; snapshots in the midst of which bodily displacements reveal the leisure, recreational and existential actions of the city’s dependents. Expressions of the will of emblematic individuals writing the city; ludic-corporal experiences added to the kinetics and the pulse of urban energy of a fragmented city, mobilized by diverse world views and interests. The city has sound, smell, taste and texture; it jumps, loves and copulates, plays, dreams, works, eats, dances: it has movement.