Escutar a cidade para novos imaginários urbanos de cuidado e conexão

This paper dialogues with the body of work that investigates ways of promoting new imaginaries of sharing and caring within the urban space. It brings together the concepts of imagination, urban imaginaries, and senses. It reflects on the features of design processes able to promote care that might inform new and regenerative relationships between human, non-human and more-than-human beings. Insights on this are drawn by looking at past activities of a long-term and exploratory research and design process that aimed at stimulating reflection on existing urban imaginaries, developing new relationships with the local environment and between human and more-than-human beings, and a renewed interest in co-creating new ones. Through reflecting on one of its activities, it points out the relevance of paying attention to senses, specifically sounds.