Spaces of Health and Culture: the experience of the World Social Forum and the tents of popular education in health/Espacos de Saude e Cultura: experiencia do Forum Social Mundial as tendas de educacao popular em saude/Espacios de Salud y Cultura: la experiencia del Fórum Social Mundial a las carpas de educación popular en salud

In order to identify possible contributions to the field of public health, the article analyzes the Spaces of Health and Culture offered in the World Social Forums that were held in Brazil. It is a qualitative research with a descriptive approach that used documents, reports, videos and notes registered in a field diary. The results indicate that the Spaces of Health and Culture innovated by enabling interactions among several public health actors, articulated with the Movement of Popular Health Education, health workers, managers and youth movements. Popular Education was mentioned as the political-methodological framework of the formulation of the spaces, which potentialized the construction of a multicultural network with the proposition of new ways to produce health. "Che Space" was the source of inspiration for the Paulo Freire Tents, held in events of the area, scientific conferences, meetings and seminars. Keywords: Popular Education Health. Community participation. Public health. Na busca de identificar possiveis contribuicoes para o campo da saude coletiva, o artigo analisa os Espacos de Saude e Cultura realizados nos Foruns Sociais Mundiais no Brasil. Trata-se de pesquisa qualitativa, de abordagem descritiva, com uso de pesquisa documental, utilizando documentos, relatorios, videos e anotacoes em diario de campo. Os resultados apontam que os Espacos de Saude e Cultura inovaram ao aproximar diversos atores da saude coletiva, articulados ao Movimento de Educacao Popular em Saude, trabalhadores da saude, gestores e movimentos de juventude. A Educacao Popular e apontada como referencial politico-metodologico da formulacao dos espacos, os quais potencializaram a construcao de rede multicultural com proposicao de novas formas de produzir saude. Afirma-se o "Espaco Che" como fonte de inspiracao para as Tendas Paulo Freire, realizadas em eventos da area, congressos cientificos, encontros e seminarios. Palavras-chave: Educacao Popular em Saude. Participacao comunitaria. Saude Coletiva. Buscando identificar posibles contribuciones al campo de la salud colectiva, el articulo analiza los Espacios de Salud y Cultura realizados en los Forums Sociales Mundiales en Brasil. Es una investigacion cualitativa, de abordaje descriptivo, usando investigacion documental, analizando documentos, informes, videos y notas en diario de campo. Los resultados senalan que los Espacio de Salud y Cultura innovaron al aproximar a diversos actores de la salud colectiva, articulados