TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE APPROACH AT SAPB/LIPAT/ FF/UFRJ INTERSECTORIAL PROJECT

Abstract

The present article describes historic evolution conception process of an intercultural medicinal plant garden as a tool to construct social ecoperception about environmental health and cultural diversity, which culminance resulted in improvement of social technology. Through case study methodology, it reports briefly the process since 2008 up to 2024. Results also show multi, inter and transdisciplinary effective activities and peer viewed communications about primary care attention to originary and ethnic groups, collectives and, mainly, to environmental recovery. Intercultural medicinal plant garden construction process provided equity to applied intercultural, interethnical and indigenous knowledge, then registered as an “open-air” intercultural plant collection (a “plant library”), improving humanities as respect, ethic, integrated citizenship, besides the learning to coexist with complexity, singularity, autonomy and self-direction. So, as qualitative evaluation, it was considered there was improved mental health promotion to this urban ethnic members and indigenous in this period (2008 – 2024) through sociocultural technology by this intersectoral project, named Environmental Health, Bioethic and Parasitology, from Immuneparasitology and Toxicological Analysis Laboratory of Faculty of Pharmacy from Federal University of Rio de Janeiro/Brazil and all of its institutional partners.