Aliseda 18. Muralism through Citizen Participation for Urban Recovery

Abstract

We present a study case where citizen participation acts in transforming degraded areas of the city. Aliseda18 is an urban garden in the first outskirts of Madrid. Within this initiative arises a mural as unifying backbone of the new space. Like all other performances, this item is made with the participation of different groups of different ages who work in the creation of the mural from their initial proposals and ideas to actual implementation. What were some medians without identity are transformed into a backdrop that gives identity to the urban garden, both for users and for the rest of the neighborhood. From the local level can produce processes of reappropriation of public space and urban landscape generation initiatives that respond to their inhabitants. Through participation in decisions on the environment and in the same configuration, citizens equip identity to the city they inhabit, express their social and cultural diversity, and are identified and held accountable to it. From a research project at the University Francisco de Vitoria lot of work is being made in a cross made successive advances in information gathering, relationship with other experiences and application in a particular case. Thus research and academic development involves the transformation of reality and enriches by implementing.