Street Clinic: Paths to Life Production

The phenomenon of urbanization is a crucial factor in human life and its civilizing process. When we approach the dimension of life on the streets, we are taken by the diversity of sensations that provoke us to experience other experiences and ways of understanding this singular and simultaneously collective universe in our daily lives. As a starting point for this study, we understand the context of the streets in cities as places of multiple connections, encounters and production of life experienced by the homeless population in their ways of existence, having as a backdrop for our analysis the public policies of the SUS, Psychiatric Reform and Psychosocial Care through the clinical experiences experienced by the health unit Consultório na Rua in Campinas SP. In this journey, we guide ourselves through the key question: How do we capture the signals that come from the street in the trails of the agencies of production of life in the landscapes of care? Our objectives aim to monitor the production of health care in street territories, using some sources of researched material such as field diaries, medical records, images, sounds and interviews, among others. Accordingly, we analyzed the effects of care in the health field triggered by clinical practices and management of complex cases developed in the services of the city's mental health network. The methodological strategy used is cartography as an intervention research methodology developed from the nomadic guide case in tune with the epistemology of crossroads as a cartographic means of analyzing health care networks. So far, the results of this qualitative research point to a transformation of the conception of health care triggered by the effects of caring encounters experienced in loco and in action, as well as providing the co-creation of other existential realities guided by the unconditional defense of the reinvention of life in its emancipatory and civic dimension.