ojaskara is a professional structure for cultural and institutional work — and also an authorial and investigative field.
Belonging is a practice,
and it operates at different scales
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At the collective level
I work with institutions, territories, and communities that want to understand what they are, what they hold, and what they can build together.
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At the individual level
I offer Jyotish readings for people in moments of transition — when something is changing and it is not yet clear what.
With people
Jyotish is the Vedic system of astrology — one of the oldest knowledge traditions in the world, developed in India thousands of years ago. More than predicting events, it is a tool for reading cycles, patterns, and tendencies — a way of understanding the time one is living in and the forces that are in motion.
A Jyotish reading can be useful in moments of transition, when something is changing and it is not yet clear what. Or when an important decision needs more context. Or simply when one wants to better understand one's own patterns — what repeats, what is ending, what is beginning.
Sessions are individual and online, with full confidentiality. Follow-up accompaniment is possible, according to need.
→ book a session: info@ojaskara.org
With institutions and territories
Every territory has a history that has not yet been fully listened to. Every institution carries memories that have not yet been fully activated.
I work with cultural institutions, collectives, foundations, and public or independent initiatives that want to understand what they are, what they hold, and what they can build — with the people and places that constitute them.
The process always begins with listening. Then comes critical reading of the context, methodological formulation, shared construction, and deliverables defined together. Each process is situated — there are no fixed formulas, only the right questions asked at the right moment.
The work may include: Conception and structuring of cultural projects Territorial and institutional diagnostics Situated cartographies and inventories Organisation and activation of archives and collections Curatorial projects and publications Technical evaluations and reports Strategic accompaniment over the medium and long term
Each process has a defined scope and duration, by contract.
→ discuss a project: info@ojaskara.org
Field
a park, a city, a neighbourhood, a house
Each field generates a constellation of records: texts, images, cartographies, testimonies, publications, memories. This archive remains open.
FIELD
Moving cartographies
(since 2014)
CRIA—Authorial Creations & Co-creations
P&D — Research & Development
Field is where knowledge happens — not before arriving, nor after leaving, but in the middle: in the time of staying, listening, and being changed by encounter.
Since 2014, I have developed situated investigations in specific territories that function as living laboratories. Each place revealed hidden layers of use, memory, and contestation. Each process deepened the same question — what does it take to belong? — and kept changing the way of asking it.
Four territories, four microclimates:
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Ibirapuera
a park São Paulo, 2014
An urban icon investigated as a stage for appropriation, paradox, and contestation between the collective and the private. Over thirteen weeks during the 31st Bienal de São Paulo, the Projeto Clima_Ibirapuera brought together artists, students, researchers, and park visitors to map and reflect on what public space means in a contemporary metropolis — in collaboration with artists Bik Van der Pol and students from the School of Missing Studies (Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam). The privatisation of the park, confirmed in 2019, bore out the study's central hypothesis.
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Uberlândia
a city Minas Gerais, 2019
A mid-sized city observed in its margins and voids, where public space reveals tensions between expansion, memory, and resistance. Twenty-five students investigated the in-between spaces of the city — through archive research, interviews, investigative walks, and collective mapping — producing a five-minute documentary as a gesture of collective resistance during a moment of intense protests against cuts to public education.
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Campanhã
a neighbourhood Porto, 2019–2020
A popular territory shaped by histories of resistance and renewal. The choice was simple and radical: to live in the neighbourhood. Over one year of real proximity — with residents, schools, local leaders, and community associations — listening became the method. The process produced 40 co-created proposals for the URBiNAT Healthy Corridor, culminating in Experimenta Campanhã, an event conceived and organised by the residents themselves.
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Pertença
a house Porto, 2024–2025
After a park, a city, and a neighbourhood, the field turned inward — to an institution that wanted to understand what it holds, what it has forgotten, and what it wants to build for the next fifty years. The Casa da Pertença emerged from the APPC 50+ project, repositioning the 50th anniversary of the Associação do Porto de Paralisia Cerebral as a living museological process — resulting in the organisation of an archive of 10,000 items, the book Tempos de Pertença with a Lexicon of over 150 entries, and the conception of a relational space for memory and care.
Archive
a museum, a foundation, an association
Each archive revealed an invisible layer — of use, of meaning, of possibility. This work continues.
ARCHIVE
Relational archives as belonging practice
(since 2003)
INST—Atuação institucional
CONS— Consultorias
An archive is not a deposit. It is a field of forces — where past and future meet, where documents become narratives, and where memory transforms into collective practice.
Since 2003, I have worked with institutional archives in very different contexts — a museum, a contemporary art foundation, a health and inclusion association. In each case, the question was the same: how to transform a collection into a living space? How to make what has been preserved serve not only history, but the people and futures still to be built?
Three institutions, three ways of activating belonging through the archive:
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MIS SP
a museum São Paulo, 2003–2006
Preservation as formation
A photographic laboratory that was also a school — where preserving archives and training young people from the peripheries of São Paulo were one and the same practice.
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Bienal de São Paulo
a foundation São Paulo, 2011–2018
Archive as living space
Seven years of research, dissemination, and experimentation within one of the most significant archives of contemporary art in Latin America — transforming documents into narratives, and the archive into a place of encounter, debate, and collective creation.
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APPC
an association Porto, 2024–2025
Memory as care
Ten thousand items organised, a book written, a lexicon built — and a house conceived so that the memory of a care institution becomes infrastructure for its future.
Body
ayurveda, yoga, jyotish
This field continues — with practice, with training, and with permanent research.
BODY
Ayurveda, yoga, jyotish — sister sciences, always
CRIA—Criações autorais e Co-criações
COLAB—Colaborações
P&D— Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento
The body is also a territory — with cycles, memories, patterns, and possibilities for transformation. Ayurveda, Yoga, and Jyotish are sister sciences within Vedic knowledge: an ancient system that integrates all aspects of life toward a common purpose — self-knowledge and belonging.
Ayurveda is the science of life — a preventive health system that teaches us to understand body and mind, and to live in a more natural and integral way.
Yoga is the union of the physical, mental, and spiritual bodies — elevating consciousness, balance, and presence in the moment.
Jyotish means "to bring to light" — the Vedic science of astrology that offers clarity on patterns, cycles, and choices, allowing life to flow toward its highest purposes.
The three arrived first as experience and practice, then as study and training — and became inseparable, complementary, and interdependent.
Practice takes different forms — regular, seasonal, individual, collective:
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Jyotish
Cartography of being in time
Porto, 2024–presentNatal chart readings as a tool for orientation, listening, and connection — especially in moments of transition, decision, or new beginnings.
Individual sessions, online -
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Yoga
Practice and community
Porto, 2021–presente
Regular Saturday morning classes at OM Gaia, Vila Nova de Gaia — and a path of community practices through Cerco do Porto, Parque Oriental and a retreat in Greece. -
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Ayurveda
Care, rhythm, and reconnection
The science that arrived first — as an experience of healing, then as training and practice. It runs through Jyotish and Yoga as an invisible ground that orients everything. It also manifests in seasonal healing journeys, cycle practices, and community interventions: Cura 21 dias ; Cura Lua; Ayurveda na Maré
