From Traditional Sports and Games (TSG) we have not only learned different ways of living time as well as inhabit space and a particular mode of practicing sports and games from distinct cultures, but also promoting universal dialog among people. TSG presents sustainable and ecological references for living needed even before the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic. Nowadays, environmentally friendly policies and production methods must be taken more seriously. TSG may reveal a path to sustainable development, considering our corporeality and cultural diversity. TSG are expressions of human groups that historically reproduce their way of life-based on modes of social cooperation and specific forms of relationship with nature, traditionally characterized by sustained environmental management. The purpose of this article is to discuss how TSG promotes intercultural dialog with a focus on sustainability, and how it empowers people and creates equality among its players. We understand that TSG can break socio-cultural barriers. For this study, we considered data from a Brazilian experience of TSG’s Festival held at a public school in the city of São Paulo (Brazil), organized in collaboration with our study group. Data consists of observations recorded in pictures and films during the processes of organization, preparation, implementation, and evaluation of a TSG Festival, held in a public school in São Paulo, Brazil from the years of 2017 and 2018, with the participation of 800 students from the first to the ninth grade of elementary school, aged between 7 and 17 years. The first step in our analysis is taken from a dynamic called “Talking Circles,” where researchers registered dialog about experiences and used specific literature about TSG, from a philosophical perspective. The team and students from our study group that organized these events were invited to participate in four different Talking Circles. Approximately 20 people participated in each one of these meetings. Recurrences that emerged from these Talking Circles are presented in the results and explored afterward. What does this experience–from bodies in movement, artistic or sporting, or both–teach about intercultural dialog and empowerment? Such gestures indicate a cultural heritage and corporeal wisdom that allows humans to face new encounters and understanding in peace, recognizing humanity common to all of us, regardless of our origins. Ethical and aesthetical results of such dialog reveal possibilities to be explored in our relationship with different cultures and the environment, providing points of sustainable development through TSG.

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ResumoQuando tentamos pensar o movimento humano, esse corpo vivo em relação com o mundo, por meio de conceitos restritos a uma única área, constata-se a complexidade deste fenômeno, que se mostra a cada novo movimento da ciência. Considerando esta complexidade, retomamos neste ensaio a possibilidade de diálogo entre Filosofi a e Ciência, aqui ocupadas com os estudos sobre corpo e movimento humano. Recorremos, então, ao estranhamento entre Neurociência e Filosofi a, em especial a Fenomenologia de Merleau-Ponty, por meio de exemplos clínicos e refl exões, não no sentido de buscar um sistema de explicações, forçar uma aproximação ou apontar elementos para fi ns de hierarquização, mas com o intuito de extrair deste movimento os elementos que nos ajudem a pensar nossas certezas e dúvidas acerca do movimento humano. A Filosofi a nos auxilia, inicialmente, a indagar sobre os pressupostos e consequências das pesquisas, recolocando questões e restaurando o lugar da dúvida. A Ciência, por sua vez, abre campos, aguça curiosidades, e mesmo sem admiti-lo, deixa-se questionar. A separação entre as diferentes formas de pensar a realidade e produzir conhecimentos não precisa necessariamente ser combatida, às custas do enfraquecimento de ambas, mas é possível extrair consequências interessantes de um movimento de aproximação entre as duas áreas.

This essay considers how play, sport, and dialogue may be used as pathways to peace. In Homo Ludens (1949), a pioneering classic of cultural history, the Dutch historian Johan Huizinga, describes play as an informal voluntary activity according to guided rules accepted freely under limits of space and time. The purpose is to create an atmosphere of tension, joy, and consciousness that it is different from ordinary life. It requires that daily concerns and disputes be suspended to make play possible. This playful character of sport fosters opportunities for dialogue. Agreeing to play with others, including those from unfamiliar cultural backgrounds, under the same rules creates the possibility of recognizing one another as partners, at least under the specific circumstances. These range from spontaneous and informal play, such as in family gardens, in parks or beach recreation, through more organized but still recreational amateur sports such as community marathons and team sports; with the degree of organization and formality increasing to the point of professional sports that are recreational in the sense of being mass entertainments.

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Este artigo pretende explorar elementos da vela esportiva que muito se assemelham com fundamentos presentes no universo dos jogos tradicionais, tais como: a transmissão do conhecimento de geração em geração, a relação com a natureza e a repetição da prática. A pesquisa que originou este artigo tem caráter fenomenológico e situa-se na área da antropologia do imaginário. A perspectiva de análise está voltada para a experiência vivida pelos esportistas e a metodologia considera principalmente as recorrências do discurso dos velejadores, quando indagados sobre a experiência de velejar. A descrição do fenômeno parte de relatos, conversas e da inserção no mundo dos velejadores, caracterizado pelo espaço do treino, da competição e da confraternização. Busca-se assim, pontuar os elementos recorrentes, descrevê-los e analisá-los apontando suas relações com o tradicional e os traços que parecem transcender a experiência individual, revelando-se como experiência humana.