Summary:

The article explains how the exploration of a ‘creative wandering’ inspired by the ideas of Fernand Deligny, has led the development of approaches that manage to transcend the mere inclusion in extreme clinical situations. The text invites us to analyse Deligny’s work, which is complex and as yet little explored, especially in Spanish, and its relevance for thinking about contemporary clinical practice. Instead of focusing on diagnoses, Deligny values presence and listening, seeking to establish a harmonious resonance with those who are excluded and must live on the margins of society. The text criticises the tendency towards an excessive institutionalisation of care, which transforms generalist structures into specialised services, often more concerned with management problems than with suffering, which ends up excluding those who do not fit into a specific category. The idea of ‘the common’, fundamental in Deligny’s thought, and its relationship with education and institutions, is addressed, highlighting the importance of the Cévennes network, a project to host children affected by profound autism. The notion of network, which he opposes to rigid institutionalisation, proposes an approach that recognises the precariousness and transience of human experience, and the need to recognise and capture this shared experience through the development of mapping networks or moving images: the aim is to document the movements of autistic children, creating a map of interactions that reveals the unstable and open nature of the network. The network is conceived as an empirical and flexible tool, designed to capture and organise experience without imposing an external order.

Key words: Wandering | Cartography | Network | Human/Dehuman | Inclusion/Exclusion | Institutionalisation | Autism | Shelter