Participatory Art for Change and Social Development: a Research Project.

This proposal arises within the framework of research and development project “Participatory artistic practices for the appropriation of public space and the quality of urban life” (PID2020-118221RB-I00). We are especially interested in those that, in some way, affect the objectives of sustainable development (SDGs), human rights and social justice. We want to analyse what the role of the artist and the different actors is, ways of participation and interaction with the space, way of financing it, but, above all, what the involvement of the community and the results are: the personal and social benefits that they cause, if there is the recovery and empowerment of the local, on the people, their culture and interests. OBJECTIVES: Generate shared knowledge; agreeing on terms; sharing experiences and reflecting on them; and mapping participatory artistic practices. METHODOLOGY based on the arts, through a performative discussion workshop and qualitative research, among experts, as a way of triangulation.RESULTS AND DISCUSSION. In this type of practice, it is essential to take into through troughs and actions, but also the feelings that they provoke and the values, that move them; therefore, we propose a standardized analysis procedure that allows us to assess the rational, but also the intuitive and the emotional; moreover, taking into accounttime: the results of the proposal before, during and after the experience, and, how they contribute to responding to social challenges and the SDGs. CONCLUSIONS. We hope to obtain, not only original and innovative results, but also a theoretical and practical foundation for the research, teaching and artistic community, at the same time that it will be an opportunity to create collaborative action research networks