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On May 29 (Friday), Pivô, in partnership with the Prefeitura de Salvador, presents Visit #3 of Circuito Lina. The event brings together iyalorixá Mãe Diana de Oxum and Salvador’s Municipal Deputy Secretary of Sustainability and Resilience, Walter Pinto Júnior.
The conversation takes as its starting point the slopes and hillsides of Salvador’s Historic Center, understood as green territories that preserve vegetation, waterways, memories, Afro-Brazilian practices, and ways of inhabiting historically inscribed in the territory, all fundamental to understanding the city as a living organism.
As part of the Prefeitura de Salvador’s special program in celebration of Environment Day, Visit #3 brings together environmental management, terreiro knowledge, and narratives surrounding the urban formation of Salvador. The meeting also places into perspective Lina Bo Bardi’s sensitivity toward the remaining vegetation that has endured through centuries of urban transformation, with special attention to the case of Ladeira da Misericórdia.
Through the encounter between the guests and the narratives mediated by professor and researcher Dilton de Almeida (FAUFBA), the walk activates Ladeira da Misericórdia and its surrounding slopes as a field for reflection on nature and the sacred, bringing into relation a series of fundamental questions to be considered in the process of reactivating the territory.
The visit is open and free of charge and, at this moment, is directed toward researchers and people interested in urban history, memory, and territory. The number of spots is limited and corresponds to the access conditions and restrictions of the site due to ongoing construction works carried out by the Prefeitura de Salvador. Participants selected on a first-come, first-served basis will receive confirmation by email. Register here.
Mãe Diana de Oxum is Yalorixá of Ilê Axé Ewá Omin Nirê and president of Egbé Axé – Associação de Terreiros da Bahia. She works at the intersection of Afro-Brazilian religious communities, public institutions, universities, and civil society, developing projects focused on the valorization of Afro-Brazilian traditions, Black women, and ancestral knowledge connected to sacred plants and terreiro landscapes.
Her trajectory brings together initiatives related to human rights advocacy, the preservation of tangible and intangible heritage, and the strengthening of care and healing practices grounded in traditional knowledge from the African diaspora. In partnership with UFBA, she collaborates on research and academic activities related to landscape architecture, Afro-Brazilian heritage, and terreiro ecologies, articulating ancestry, territory, and popular knowledge.
Walter Pinto Júnior is the Deputy Secretary of Sustainability and Resilience of Salvador and has more than 20 years of experience in municipal public administration, working across the fields of culture and tourism, public management modernization, gender and racial public policies, and public education.
He holds an MA in Territorial Development and Social Management and a degree in Public Management from UFBA. He is currently pursuing an MBA in ESG Sustainability at Fundação Getulio Vargas.
Dilton de Almeida is a professor at the Faculty of Architecture of the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA), working in the fields of theory, history, architectural design, and urban planning. His research focuses on the history of urbanism and urban transformations, articulating architecture and the city with historiography, aesthetics, art, and literature, with an emphasis on image and memory.
He co-coordinates Laboratório Urbano and the research network Cronologia do Pensamento Urbanístico. He is the editor of Laboratório Urbano: pequeno léxico teórico-metodológico (EDUFBA, 2022), the collection Cidade, Urbanismo, História (EDUFBA, 2023), and Nebulosas do Pensamento Urbanístico: modos de expor (EDUFBA, 2025).
He also organized the exhibition Debaixo desse céu: nebulosas da cidade, presented at the Centro Universitário Maria Antônia of the University of São Paulo (USP) in 2024 and later restaged at UFBA in 2025.