The project revisits the urbanisation of the Brazilian Atlantic Forest through the perspective of a quilombo the world's largest city forest, located in Rio de Janeiro. The research approaches forest-city relations from the quilombo's standpoint, rather than from conventional urban planning or environmental governance. Planning and environmental governance impose dichotomies (forest vs city, nature vs society, conservation vs development) that are unlikely to align with the relational territoriality through which the quilombo composes space. The study adopts a relational framework while connecting to critical urban theory, political ecology, environmental studies, Black studies, and spatial justice, which helps to be attentive to the quilombo's own ontology and allows its practices to challenge the epistemological and ontological assumptions of planning itself. The goal is to examine how the quilombo navigates and reworks the urban and environmental frameworks, projects, and narratives imposed upon them, and to explore what its territorial practices reveal about alternative ways of conceiving and practising planning in the forest-city.​