Floresta Cidade is also a research project of the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). As a result of the extension project, Floresta Pesquisa aims to test possibilities of inhabiting - and of designing and (de)building - that escape the European model and are inspired by Afro-indigenous sensibilities. In the face of the Anthropocene, the forest and the city can cease to be antagonistic ideas and start to establish a healing relationship that ranges from our bond with the Earth and other living beings to the challenges of survival imposed by the environmental, social, health, economic and environmental crises. politics, more and more evident. More about research see Quintal. Line of research: forest, cosmos, affects and cities.