University-community dialogues for a healthy city: challenges in the pandemic period of the covid-19

The number of cases of mental illness has increased considerably in recent years, but given the scenario of uncertainties and insecurity caused by the pandemic of COVID-19 regarding the way of life, routine, health, economy, housing and well-being issues, education, among others, mental illnesses had an exponential increase in the number of people with mental health-related illnesses, the intensified cases. As social isolation and access to information, isolation of the risk group, closure of universities and schools, uncertainties about the economy and jobs, some of the diseases had more occurrence, such as: development of obsessive-compulsive symptoms, anxiety, stress and depression) , highlighting the need to promote new channels and spaces of speech so that people recover their autonomy and make it possible to reformulate the empowerment of communities. For this, the university has a differential role in collaboration and making feasible in the joint process, implementing light technologies, such as, for example, proposing conversation circles; meetings to exchange solutions; events to enable or reinforce the microeconomics' potentials, using videos called from a cell phone. In this way, opening a space of speech where they can exchange feelings, successes, difficulties between the residents who live in that urban space, feel welcomed and expand their collective resilience. The objective of this research is to provide a virtual space for dialogue between the university, public managers and the community with a focus on the theme of urban planning and a healthy city.

Members: Ana Maria Girotti Sperandio - Coordinator / Rodrigo Brandini Bloes - Member / Pamela Shue Lang Lin - Member / Bárbara Bonetto - Member / Carlos Henrique Tristão de Camargo - Member / Juliana Rodrigues Machado - Member.