Death and life of citizen initiatives through participatory public policies in Madrid: towards an open source urbanism or towards the end of it?

Braschi, Cristina;et.al.
(2018) 9th International PhD Seminar in Urbanism and Urbanization — Location: Ghent University (7.February.2018)

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  • Braschi, CristinaUCLouvain
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After 15 years-long participant observation of Madrid's self-managed spaces, witnessing their struggles and transformation, wa aknowledge now, since the arrival in June 2015 of the leftist party to the Local Government, the launch and development of a series of participatory practices within the public policy. In fact, the leftist coalition has expressed the need to change the way urbanism is developed in Madrid: towards a more open and participatory model, fighting against big projects and those made without public inquiry. The new Mayor has also recognized the work of organized citizens the work of organized citizens (mediated by some groups of acrhitects) in the making of alternatives to the old non-participative policies. Whether these official statements are only a discursive change, or a real change in the public procedures, has yet to be determined. The paper is a discussion chapter in the making for the PhD research. It exposes to discussion the methods used in the Research to analyse the projects that have been formalized and transformed by the public administration. Exploring the proposals made by the Mayor to adapt citizen initiatives, the paper questions the extended critic of these activities as mere entertainment for citizens, not managing to change the status quo.
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Braschi, C., & et al. (2018). Death and life of citizen initiatives through participatory public policies in Madrid: towards an open source urbanism or towards the end of it? In Michiel Dehaene, David Peleman (ed.), On reproduction : re-imagining the political ecology of urbanism : proceedings of the 9th International PhD Seminar in Urbanism (U&U 2018 : 9th International PhD Seminar in Urbanism and Urbanization, p. p. 395-400). Michiel Dehaene, David Peleman. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/224570