Subject Tree, Territory, Nature, Society, Co-creation, Public policy

In this study, the concept created, Subject Tree, involves the critical analysis of the spaces of rural schools in the public teaching and learning system, in the municipality of Serranos – MG, which we here call Cognitive Territories. Analyzed together, Subject Tree and Cognitive Territory, make up the understanding of the relationship between subjects, territories and natures, this composition we call Corponature. Currently, these rural school spaces are closed and inoperative, or under other uses, as a result of the school nucleation process, from 1996 to the present day. Question: 1. Are these spaces being occupied? If yes, for what purposes? 2. Are there public policies that provide for investment in the maintenance, conservation and expansion of these public facilities in rural areas, and for teaching and learning activities in these locations? How are relations between populations and territories occurring, due to the displacement imposed on rural communities to school in the urban headquarters of the municipality? Who are the subjects of these relationships? Through systematization, ordering and interpretation of data; analyzing the results of experimental actions and artistic interventions, we want to understand how the relationships between governance systems, subjects, territories and cognitive processes occur. The aim is to critically reflect on socio-environmental transformations and their consequences for populations and the territory, on a local scale, and their implications for Nature, on a global scale. The transdisciplinary methodological experimentation based on the tripod: arts, urbanities and sustainability, structures the study as follows: 1. Quali-quantitative research; 2. Bibliographic review; 3. Individual/collective artistic, agroecological and cognitive intervention in a deactivated rural public school space in the municipality of Serranos; 4. Involvement in partnerships for curatorial purposes in art, city, nature, agroecology, philosophy and activism. The theoretical foundation of this study is based on the perspectives of the Amerindian Worldview, the New Latin American Constitutionalism and Good Living. In addition, there are historical, archaeological, geopolitical, ecological, economic, sociocultural, artistic, technological and cognitive perspectives, which contribute to the reflection on what they are: Cognitive Territories and who the Subject Tree is, also dialoguing with ancestry, the sacred, identity and belonging.