Participatory Art for Change and Social Development:A Proposal for Categories of Analysis

Abstract

This article shows the work being done within the FEASIBILITY research project (R&D&I project funded by the Government of Spain) which investigates the usefulness of participatory artistic practices as a tool for intervention and transformation of the city, in and from its public spaces, in order to improve the quality of urban life. The team is composed of researchers from different disciplines such as art, education, architecture and geography.

It is divided into a series of phases, starting with a definition of analysis tools, to continue with the creation of identifiable categories with concrete practices and a third and final phase of implementation of a proposal. The project is now in its second phase, in which, without attempting to pigeonhole, it pretends to agree on categories of analysis: different roles of artists are raised in them, as well as other fundamental questions such as the artistic format or the material and temporal character of the work. We intend to be able to identify categories with concrete practices so that they can be used as a starting point for new proposals.