The practice of architecture and urbanism is endowed with a subjective character as ways of acting and their results may vary, depending on which interests are met and the decisions made by the planning professionals. This article is born from an experience in technical advisory during my final year as an undergraduate student of the Architecture and Urbanism course at the Federal University of Bahia, with the residents of a settlement from the Bahia Homeless Movement, in Salvador. It seeks to understand a way of exercising the profession by approaching the Quilombo Paraíso Occupation, which was threatened with removal due to imminent State’s interventions, aiming to build a project of Minha Casa Minha Vida over the houses of the occupation. Indemnified with apartments in the future buildings, residents requested that a technical advisory helped them relocate the occupation to some land nearby until the end of the State’s work, to remain in the territory resisting as a community and secure the real estate. In order to democratize the practice of urbanism and exchange knowledge between the University and the Population, the inclusion of families in the decisions was made through workshops of popular participation, strengthening the collective against impositions. Thus, this essay seeks to tense the role that the architect and urbanist can play in balancing the many acting and unequal forces in the dispute for space.