Last year, the report
In Barcelona, participation sings!
was presented, a collective work that aimed to “be a tool to give meaning to the word participation, from our own experience and the assessment of neighborhood mobilization, as well as to help refute the manipulation behind the “participatory” propaganda launched by public and economic powers for speculative purposes” in different neighborhoods of Barcelona.
Indeed, ‘participation’ is one of the current wildcard-fetishes of the public administration, however participatory processes, especially in the cultural field, often tend, in a more or less disguised way, to orchestration, and rarely develop as processes in which citizens/participants have effective decision-making power, that is, in which there is a genuine redistribution of power.
This coming Saturday, January 17, a drift-tour has been organized by bike or on foot through some spaces and places in Barcelona with the desire to “understand where the city is going and build a network with grassroots neighborhood initiatives and proposals.”
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TOUR
PARTICIPATION SINGS!
sagrera > sant andreu > bon pastor
… by bike or on foot, come with us!
Saturday, January 17, 2009
we will meet at 11:00 a.m.
in front of the Nau Ivanov (Carrer Hondures 28-30)
an open participatory process of drift, visualization and mobilization
to understand where our city is going
and build a network with grassroots neighborhood initiatives and proposals.
urban culture means the game we play together in the city and we,
since the proposed game does not satisfy us,
we question the rules imposed to define new ones
so that we can fit in and master the new game that is proposed to us.
we have chosen to play in another way and we let it be known.
together we want to spend some time playing / touring the neighborhood / claiming…
and launching the idea of what it is for us to participate,
in the construction of the neighborhood and in the power of self-management of our daily lives.
collectively build a symbolic action through urban drift.
knowledge is not static. it arises from exchange. there is no object of study.
we are subjects who participate in knowledge from action
and from a work of collective reflection and action for the community.
TOUR ITINERARY
11:00 – MEETING POINT IN LA SAGRERA
in front of the Nau Ivanov – carrer hondures 28-30
– presentation of the TOUR
– the nau ivanov
11.30 – TOUR START
– passing by the cso la papa, the edges of the RENFE land, …
12.00 – PONT DEL TREBALL STOP
– the arrival of the TAV to La Sagrera
12.30 – TOUR
passing through the plaça de les rates, plaça masadas,
the disappeared social center el palomar, local dels diables …
13.00 – FABRA I COATS STOP
– the ateneu l’harmonia, a collective dream
13.30 – TOUR
– passing through the akimeplanto community garden
14.00 – STOP AND LUNCH AT CSO LA GORDÍSSIMA
– cso la gordíssima, a weighty reason to resist and win
– wall of petitions to collect the opinions of the neighbors
– plan to make the conflicts in the area visible
16.30 – TOUR
– passing through the casa-bloc / avv tramuntana
17.00 – LES CASERNES STOP
– the last public land for public uses
17.30 – TOUR – passing through la maquinista, fàbrica mercedes …
18.00 – BON PASTOR STOP AND CHOCOLATE
– chocolate with the neighbors
– exhibition-mural / the transfer and the mortgages
– wall of petitions to collect the opinions of the neighbors
