methodology of participation in public spaces
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Methodology of participation in public spaces
Xavier Úcar Martínez
Dpt. Pedagogia Sistemàtica i Social
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
2/2008
1rts. Part
ÚCAR, X. (2007) “Factores clave de la participación en los espacios públicos” 14 pág. En Animador Sociocultural: Revista Iberoamericana. Año 2-Número 1 – Octu.2007 / Abr. 2008 . http://www.lazer.eefd.ufrj.br/animadorsociocultural/pdf/ac302.pdf (ISSN: 1980-0606)
PARTICIPATION PUBLIC SPACES
They are mutually implied
Each one is condition of possibility from another one
• Social Learning Mechanism
• It forms collective and personal identities
• It’s a tool but also a purpose
• Diversity of public spaces
• Diversity of people using spaces
• Diversity of uses
Confi-dence inprocess
Efecti-veness
1
Efecti-veness
2
Prota-gonism
Me
Confi-dence in own
capacity
Transpa-rency
Recog-nition
Others
PARTICIPATION
CONDITIONS OF POSSIBILITY
Methodology
To create frames (scenes)
that make possible the participation and
provide it enough flexibility
to ongoing adapt it
to a social and cultural community changes
2nd. Part.
ÚCAR, X. (2006) “Investigación participativa sobre espacios públicos y educación cívica” .Revista Iberoamericana de educación. Edición digital. Nº 39-4. http://www.rieoei.org/experiencias132.htm (ISNN: 1681-5653)
Carmel Action
Xavier Úcar Martínez
Dpt. Pedagogia Sistemàtica i Social
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Community Development Plan
In last 10 years more than 100 Community development Plans have been initiated in Catalonia.
The City Council Authorities
The Governmental Authorities
The neighborhoodAssociations
They are agreed to sign
an agreement
FUNDING
RESOURCES
Community Development
Plan
First stepCommunitydiagnostic
EL CARMEL (Barcelona)
• 1998 Start Communitarian Plan called CARMEL AMUNT
• 2001 Communitarian Diagnosis
Carmel Action (2003)
Political project Shared reflection dynamics about the meaning of
the public spaces to the people.
Re-definition from public spaces’ uses and the rights and duties associated.
It shows the limits and possibilities from the territories in which the daily life of the people developed.
Political and educational communitarian work process
Carmel Action
Educational Project
To involve people on the discovery of the public spaces from their neighborhood.
To know and to understand the meanings that other people attribute to the use of the public spaces (Why I use this public space
in my own way?)
To cause a change of attitudes in people in order to respect the public space and the other people who it’s shared with.
To built a neighborhood’s future that will be
desirable, solidary, durable and sustainable.
PARTICIPATIVE RESEARCH’ GOALS
To discover Carmel’s public spaces and the feelings that the people have towards them.
To know why people (children, youth, adults, aged) use in your own way the neighborhood’s public spaces.
To have responsible attitudes towards use of public spaces.
To design proposals to the use and sustainable maintenance of these spaces
To initiate youth empowerment processes.
OUTCOMES
A function map or a uses mapping of public spaces
An emotional map of public spaces
A dream map of public spaces (Community of choice)
A sociopolitical renewal dynamics to live and use
the public spaces by the Carmel’s youth.
METHODOLOGICAL LINES
Working with natural groups (they are now working)
Helping to emerge neighborhood’s practice and groups
Integrating initiatives, groups or interested people
Working with other groups which have your own process (external unities)
Strengthen the process with products
Documenting the project development
RESEACH
TEAM
PROJECT DESIGN OF CARMEL ACTION
Call for participants
LINE 1
ChildrenYouthAdultsAged
ChildrenYouthAdultsAged
MAPS
Coincidences and divergences analyses
Integrated proposal
EXPECTED OUTCOMES AND PRODUCTS
LINE 2
Youth and children
Systematicobservationof the public space uses
Groups
Groups
External unities
METHODOLOGY: 1st. and 2nd. Session
Working by age (youth, adults, aged)
What a public space is?
Which public spaces are in the Carmel?
Which the public spaces are that you normally use?
Which are space public characteristics, functions and uses?
Which positives or negatives emotions produce every public space to you and why?
3th. Session:THE DREAM MAPof Carmel’s public spaces
METHODOLOGY: 3th Session THE DREAM MAP
Aging mixed groups
Recreational Methodology
Working in little groups with a research team member
Dossier: The dream map What is a dream map? A concrete space public to every group
(places, furniture, people and relationships) Viable proposals of improvement:
Who must do it? What can do we ?
What a public space is?
Youth, adults, aged : A shared people space where
you can enjoy, have a converse, have a relationship or, simply, spend time
All groups related public space with open spaces (free air)
Adults and aged people think that spaces publics are transit places, crossing sites.
Youth people think that it are something to live; life’s places
The public spaces of El Carmel are in green
What a public space is?
Young people claim for your own public spaces. They do not speak about who is responsible from it maintenance.
Adults think that the maintenance correspond to citizenship and City Council.
Aged people said the young people bother other people who is in the public spaces. They claim for public spaces only to youth.
Aged people said that the maintenance correspond to City Council.
The public spaces that people use are in red
Public spaces in El Carmel Public spaces that people use
• 83 public spaces identified• Consensus about 3 public
spaces
• 11 used but not identified
• 34 identified but not used
Work’s sessions
Youth Adults Aged Total
1st. Session(Functional map)
101010
122010
121212
108
2nd. Session(Emotional map)
101010
122010
121212
108
3th Session(The dream map)
30 42 36 108
Total participants by age
30 42 36 108
Total session 7 7 7 21
“External Unities”
1 Secondary School; 3 Primary School; 2 Children Center; 1 Center of Mental Health; 1 Neighbors Association
PARTICIPATIVE RESEARCH TEAM
1 researcher from Autonomus University of Barcelona (UAB)
1 representative from Barcelona City Council Institute of Education
1 representative from neighborhood’s Community Development Project (CDPN)
1 social educator from CDPN
1 undergraduate student. 4th. course Pedagogy (UAB)
3 undergraduate student on practice. 3th. course Social Education (UAB)
1 PhD student from Social Psychology (University of Barcelona)
1 Secondary school teacher
Thank you