Subjective Cartographies
Collaborative workshops in Raval district, Barcelona
Part of the research project:
Civic Placemaking II: design, public space and social cohesion.
The Raval district has been and still is a territory where multiple views have crossed generating different perspectives on the physical, social and cultural reality. Raval has been built as a framework for social activism, processes of social inclusion, collective struggles, cultural community and coexistence, citizenship, documentalism, technological innovation, awareness or restitution of the city, among many others.
This intersection of personal and collective stories highlights the value of the multiplicity of subjectivities: the constitution of a shared urban environment, built time from multiple perspectives at the same. For this reason, the interest of the Civic Placemaking II research project focuses on the study of this diversity of subjectivities at different scales, with the idea of recreating them through a series of participatory cartographic workshops.
These workshops are proposed, on the one hand, as a process of creation of new communities and links with the territory, and, on the other, as a strategy to deepen the research on the sociocultural complexity of the Raval district as a territory of reception and continuous gestation of diversity and plurality.
Research team: Roger Paez, Manuela Valtchanova & Lio Huntjens
Partners: Fundació Bancària “la Caixa”, Ajuntament de Barcelona, Districte Ciutat Vella, Kn60Lab
Participants: Ilham Arbiine, Laia Capdevila, Martí Castells, Bashar Choudhury, Hajar El Abdali, Asia El Mhgyly, John Esteban, Nathalie Estrada, Saray Fernández, Zoni Miah, Lluc Paez, Marina Planell.