The use of artistic activities as agents for mental healthcare practices in relation to the organization of daily life and institutional spaces, in substitutive services such as at psychosocial care centers, is discussed. The importance of porosity in this daily life to welcome users' creations and link them with the other activities that structure daily life and occupy institutional spaces is discussed. It is advocated that institutional spaces need to reflect the intrinsic characteristics and needs of people who are treated there, and for the institution to function as a backdrop for semantic linkage of the subjects' experiences and their possible dialogue with culture.
Occupacional therapy; Institutionalization; Mental health; Culture; Activities of daily living