Rede Convida: extending care and other links in pandemic times

Abstract

This article shares the process of building and management of the university project for extension, research and teaching, Rede Convida, which we articulate as teachers and students. Its proposal arises to the extent that we are called upon to devise and invent ways of coping and caring in the face of the irreversibility of technological mutations that make us contemporaries of a turbulence as unique as it is globalizing: the vulnerability of our bodies, of our lives. We believe that teaching and learning take place as an effect and unfolding of the shared experience from the operations we produce, driven by the desire to map plans of affectation and production of subjectivity and health involved with the urgent situations that we face in our faculty process. In this warp, this article aims to demonstrate how Rede Convida articulates itself with other networks of people and institutions to face COVID-19, also to foster transdisciplinary knowledge and practices in terms of clinical listening, as well as training and management of solidarity and community networks. As this is an ongoing project, our final considerations are about some impacts of this initiative and the possible paths to be followed.