Humanising the territory

proposals for the management of urban art and muralism that integrates the community from a transdisciplinary perspective.

Abstract

The management of art in public space has often led to processes of gentrification and rejection by the community in which the piece is inserted. However, other participatory urban practices have served to revitalise different types of territories, especially more rural areas or peripheral neighbourhoods. However, when the management is not done from the neighbourhood itself, it is often the institution that in some way imposes these artistic practices on the territory, and when actions are carried out to integrate the local population, the results are not measured with objective instruments. In this sense, this paper presents a possible guide with participatory dynamics prior to the realisation of murals and/or urban art festivals, in order to achieve good practices in urban art management, from a transdisciplinary point of view by including not only art history, but also psychology and anthropology. These dynamics have already been put into practice and real results will be presented, with comparative analyses leading to conclusions about what has worked and can be extrapolated to other territories and what could still be improved.