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The present work explores the recognition of the past and present genius loci of three spaces of Porto city center as remaining and transformed representations of spaces with distinct, interconnected and pertinent botanical missions in the nineteenth century landscape of the city. Through the exploration of sources left by the interveners or graphic testimonies of the urban landscape from 1850 to the present day of these (ethno-)botanical spaces, we explore how the interveners and spaces of the Jardim Botânico da Academia Polythecnica do Porto, the Horto-pharmacêutico da Botica da Hospital Real de Santo António and the Horto das Virtudes mutually influenced. On the other hand, it is demonstrated how these spaces determined a time of special interest in botany that would not be repeated in the history of the city and its population.

This communication proposal is organized as an analysis of the potential of the collaborative action-research methodology in the operationalization of intercultural mediation processes, based on the reflective description of the process of integration of a refugee family in a city in the interior of Portugal. The option for this methodological design allowed us to fulfill the double objective of allowing us to know and characterize the reality under analysis and to intervene in order to implement the process of social integration and, particularly, the process of school inclusion of the 7 children in the family under analysis. The research design proved to be adequate to the circumstances and objectives of the study, allowing to organize data, define strategies and implement dynamics that promote the integration process and, in parallel, the personal and / or professional development of the stakeholders. The positive evaluation of the methodology has allowed for the replication of procedures to support the integration of other refugee families.