Tag: Governance

Where the city changes its name. New ideas for the public space in the Bon Pastor neighbourhood

This series, titled as the novel by Francesc Candel (1957), desires to help to build up an account of the many experiences of neighbours in order to improve their living conditions, giving visibility to the work on memory retrieval developed in many neighbourhoods and recover the spirit of belonging, solidarity, dignity and struggle.

Thursday, November 29, at 7:00 pm, at the Bon Pastor Library.

Organized by: Bon Pastor Library, Polis Research Center (UB) – Master Urban Design (UB) Continue reading Where the city changes its name. New ideas for the public space in the Bon Pastor neighbourhood

20 years working with neighbours. An exhibition. Lodz

Within the framework of the international conference “3rd Aesthehic Energy of the City: URBAN POLARITIES” , the POLIS Research Centre presented the exhibition “20 years working with neighbors” that gathers the main processes of citizen participation in which the Center has intervened since 1997.

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“BUILDING REMEMBRANCE” EXHIBITED IN PUEBLA

From 1st June to 7 july, the cultural centre “LA MONJA” at the Benemerita Universidad de Puebla (México) shows the itinerant exhibition “Baró de Viver & Bon Pastor. Urban Cohesion. Building Remembrance”. The exhibition is a first act of the 1st International Conference  In Civic Participation in city making organized by Facultad de Arquitectura BUAP, Universitat de Barcelona and Re Genera Espacio  Continue reading “BUILDING REMEMBRANCE” EXHIBITED IN PUEBLA

On the w@terfront. 1st Video Issue

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Espacio Público, Participación, Gobernanza

Video Número I de las ponencias presentadas en el Seminario Internacional ·Espacio Público: Retos y Oportunidades”. Barcelona, Biblioteca del Bon Pastor, 15 a 17 Enero 2018

Table of Contents

Articles

Carme Turégano
New values in Bon Pastor’s remembrance. Increasing heritage shared inventory
Carme Turégano
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Miguel Ángel Lozano
The Neighborhood Plan of the City of Barcelona
Miguel Ángel Lozano
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Josep Capsir
A vindicative local vision 
Josep Capsir
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Joan Roca
Social vision of the science and museum of the city
Joan Roca
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On the w@terfront: 2 more issues in RACO

Núm. 60/3 Bon Pastor. Civic remembrance (I)

water60_04_01-1.jpgThe spatial memory system in the neighborhood of Bon Pastor (Barcelona). Study of the White Center

Antoni Remesar, Bibiana Crespo

 

Abstract

Following the development in 2011 of the Mural of Remembrance in Baró de Viver (Barcelona) the adjacent district of Bon Pastor, showed interest on having a symbolic and artistic element of similar characteristics. However, from the beginning, Bon Pastor neighbours expressed the idea that writing their remembrance should not be displayed on a linear support, but should be distributed by the territory. The research group of the Polis Research Centre started a participatory process (not completed nowadays) within the framework of cooperation agreements between the Centre, the Neighbourhood Association and the local authorities of the Sant Andreu district. At the same time, the theme of this “memory system and space” became a topic to be developed by one of the interdisciplinary and international teams of students of the Master Degree in Urban Design: Art, City , Society of the Universitat de Barcelona. This article presents the progress carried out.

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The moment of citizenship . Social innovation and urban governance

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Marc Pradel Miquel, Marisol García Cabeza, Ana Belén Cano Hila, Fernando Díaz Orueta, Lídia García Ferrando, Santiago Eizaguirre Anglada, María Luisa Lourés Seoane, Raúl Ruiz Sola

A book that shows the richness and diversity of proposals for social innovation in the cities and neighborhoods of Madrid, Barcelona, Bilbao and Zaragoza Continue reading The moment of citizenship . Social innovation and urban governance

Public Space: challenges and opportunities. A three days international seminar. Barcelona, January 15th – 17th, 2018

image003Debates on public space are recurrent and it is good that this happens. Despite some mermaid songs against it, public space is fundamental in the processes of city making, but also in the democratic and participatory construction of citizenship. Continue reading Public Space: challenges and opportunities. A three days international seminar. Barcelona, January 15th – 17th, 2018