Based on the call for ‘planning guided by theories of involvement’, proposed by sociologist Ana Clara Torres Ribeiro, the research seeks to link, stitch and entangle authors, theories, practices and practitioners in the territories by creating a cartography that aims to tell stories - examples - capable of affecting and providing glimpses from their ways of doing things, of theories of involvement that provide tools to help social action dispute futures from the various worlds of the present. The intention is to contribute to the formulation of a critique of the model of progress and the notion of development constructed in modernity and in the political-cultural processes of the 20th century from the field of architecture, urbanism, design and urban planning. Drawing three images of involvement as a starting point - (1) autonomy and territories of commons (2) good living and places of decolonisation of thought (3) dreaming, fabulating and telling other stories - the research investigates ‘critical micro-ecologies’, understood as places, movements, collectivities, territorialities, built and maintained through practices of autonomy and processes of struggle and cooperation that point the way to the construction of an agenda for the transformation of paradigms for thought and action on the urban, the land and collective life in the context of the current civilisational and environmental crisis that we can associate with the word Anthropocene.