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Based on the concept of territory, the article investigates the possible ways of resignifying urban infrastructure works. Infrastructure works such as viaducts, walkways, staircases, train tracks, subway stations, and tunnels are characterized as public instruments that enable connections and flows for the efficient functioning of cities. Foreseeing a greater quality in the form of territorial occupation, can infrastructure works, in addition to being technical spaces with specific functions, become ethical devices belonging to the citizenry, and show otherness? The article, through thinkers such as Deleuze, Guattari, and Derrida, aims at deconstructing the concepts of origin into new conceptual attributes. Contextually, the research adapts the method of conceptual analysis, presenting a propositional framework - the concept of origin, the concept of interest, and possible consequences. On one hand, the research brings Deleuze and Guattari closer to these public character constructions through concepts such as: organism, rhizome, stratum, and functional body. On the other hand, it approaches Jacques Derrida from the idea of the receptacle, in a kind of free and discursive territory, where the language activated by another way of thinking, decenters and reconstructs the object in multiple interpretations, deconstructing it. The text is visually reinforced by using singular and representative public works in Porto Alegre (Brazil). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]