Methodology of participation in public spaces

Xavier Úcar Martínez

Dpt. Pedagogia Sistemàtica i Social

Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Xavier.ucar@uab.es

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

Xavier.ucar@uab.es

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