{"id":7,"date":"2025-08-16T19:35:54","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T19:35:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/a-grupa.eu\/?page_id=7"},"modified":"2025-09-18T10:49:44","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T10:49:44","slug":"a-metodologia","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/a-grupa.eu\/en\/a-metodologia\/","title":{"rendered":"METHODOLOGY"},"content":{"rendered":"

Above all, we are a network built on trust, a community of trust.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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THE CHALLENGE<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Many women face significant barriers to sustaining their professional paths, particularly when balancing academia and motherhood \u2014 especially in fields like urbanism and public projects often based on short-term contracts or fellowships. These challenges are further intensified for migrant women, single mothers, and those in precarious working conditions, such as researchers or freelance professionals. When these layers intersect, the obstacles multiply.\n A GRUPA emerged as a response to these realities, aiming to ensure that qualified women can continue contributing to and leading meaningful urban transformations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

THE IDEA<\/h3>\n\n\n
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To address these challenges, A GRUPA developed a cooperative methodology rooted in care and adaptability. At its core lies the principle of rotation and sharing \u2014 a system of alternating roles and collective responsibilities that enables members to balance family, academic, and professional demands, ensuring project continuity even during periods of high personal workload.\nThis approach is grounded in Global South and feminist perspectives, which centre the real conditions and constraints of everyday life as a fundamental part of project planning and management.\n Today, A GRUPA brings together urban professionals based in various regions of Portugal and beyond, navigating constant mobility.\nThis methodology has been applied in most of our initiatives, including URBiNAT, a Horizon 2020 project led by the Environmental Management Division of Porto\u2019s City Council. In this case, A GRUPA was responsible for the participatory dimension of developing a new urban park.\n Over four years, the team \u2014 mostly composed of mothers, including municipal staff \u2014 navigated three pregnancies, two births, and the conclusion of several doctoral theses, without compromising project delivery. This experience highlighted the strength of a technical practice anchored in mutual care and underscored the crucial role of middling public servants in making collaborative innovation work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

THE IMPACT<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

A GRUPA\u2019s methodology proves that it is possible to lead complex, long-term public projects in harmony with personal life \u2014 when done collectively.\n It shows that a \u201ccaring bureaucracy\u201d and institutional creativity can emerge and thrive when feminist and inclusive practices are placed at the centre of the process.\n Our work not only delivers all expected project outcomes but also fosters cultural change within institutions, showing how they can operate in more inclusive and context-aware ways.\nThis methodological praxis is essential to ensure the consistency and resilience of participatory processes, even when participants\u2019 availability shifts \u2014 on all sides.\n It is a living example of how urbanism rooted in mutual care can be a transformative and sustainable practice, both within institutions and across municipal and systemic levels.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Somos, acima de tudo, uma rede de confian\u00e7a. O DESAFIO Muitas mulheres enfrentam dificuldades significativas para manter suas trajet\u00f3rias profissionais, conciliando, por exemplo, academia e maternidade \u2014 especialmente em \u00e1reas como o urbanismo e os projetos p\u00fablicos baseados em contratos ou bolsas. Esses desafios se tornam ainda mais complexos para mulheres imigrantes, m\u00e3es solo ou […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-7","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/a-grupa.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/a-grupa.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/a-grupa.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/a-grupa.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/a-grupa.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/a-grupa.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":224,"href":"https:\/\/a-grupa.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7\/revisions\/224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/a-grupa.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}