PAI DERIVA

PAI DERIVA is an experimental digital publication produced from a research-art residency developed by Brazilian researcher Rodrigo Édipo Silva during the program PLAY(THE)GROUND – Informality as Resistance, organized by the collective mais uno +1, in Talude, a social neighborhood in Lisbon predominantly inhabited by Cape Verdean migrant families.

The project investigated relationships between fathers, children and territory through walking practices, informal encounters and situated listening. Inspired by cartographic methodology and critical studies of attention, the proposal invited children to guide routes through the neighborhood, opening space for other ways of perceiving everyday life, care and belonging.

Across photographs, visual essays, field notes and short chronicles, the publication documents key tensions and discoveries of the residency: the difficulty of engaging men in caregiving-centered activities, the vitality of community bonds, the pedagogical force of children’s perspectives, and the role of music, celebration and embodied conviviality as forms of resistance.

Rather than presenting linear results, PAI DERIVA functions as a sensorial archive of process. It combines documentary record, poetic reflection and critical inquiry into fatherhood beyond patriarchal norms, showing how joy, mourning, housing precarity, migration histories and everyday creativity shape collective life in Talude.

This publication may be of interest to researchers and practitioners in psychology, anthropology, urban studies, childhood studies, migration studies, participatory arts, decolonial studies and community-based research.