Mid-term Conference Peripheral Creativities, Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto
PERICREATIVITY
On January 30 and 31, the international conference Peripheral Creativities - Youth, Territories and Public Policies took place, marking the middle phase of the PERICREATIVITY project.
The first day began with a welcome from coordinators Otávio Raposo and Lígia Ferro and project manager Pedro Varela, who presented the central axes of the PERICREATIVITY research project and the importance of creating more moments for discussion in co-presence and with diverse audiences.
This was followed by an opening conference with Isabel Menezes, professor at the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences at the University of Porto, and Victoria Gómez, professor at the Carlos III University in Madrid, on the pillars of youth participation and the fight against inequalities in the right to the city.
The afternoon of the first day featured two complementary panels. The first was on public policies for youth, with the presence of Pedro Abrantes (Universidade Aberta), Teresa Seabra (Iscte-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa), João Teixeira Lopes (Universidade do Porto) and Francisco Neves (Instituto Português do Desporto e da Juventude), where concrete cases of Portuguese intervention policy and future models were debated.
The second focused on the cultural and artistic practices of young people in the contemporary world based on different field studies, with contributions from Alix Didier Sarrouy, Ricardo Campos (Universidade Nova de Lisboa), Carla Malafaia (Universidade do Porto) and Alexandre Barbosa Pereira (Universidade Federal de São Paulo).
At the end of the afternoon, after the debates and also moments of leisure and conviviality, there was a special moment to share short films made in co-creation with young people from the Bairros da Torre and Fim do Mundo (Cascais) and Engenheiro Machado Vaz (Porto), with the presence of Ângela Rodrigues, Daniela Ramos and Pedro Diniz (aka Machine).
The second day of the conference Peripheral Creativities - Youth, Territories and Public Policies kicked off with a discussion about the dynamics of segregation in urban territories, with examples from Porto and Lisbon. Rita Cachado (Iscte-Instituto Univesitário de Lisboa), Virgílio Borges Pereira (Universidade do Porto), Gabriela Leal (Universidade Nova de Lisboa) and António Brito Guterres (Instituto de Intervenção e Acção Urbana and Iscte-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa) took part. In the afternoon, we traveled to Casa das Glicínias, the headquarters of the Escolhas Sinergi@s project, and received contributions from six people with local experiences in peripheral territories: Ana Rita Lopes (E9G Entre-Ruas), Bruno Prudêncio (Espaço T), Carlos Varela (E9G Take.it), Leonor Medon (University of Porto), Luís Maia (E9G Na Praça!) and Madalena Silva (Ibn Mucana School Group). At Casa das Glicínias, in Contumil, the PERICREATIVITY team proposed a collaborative “Stone Soup”, where proposals were gathered to rethink the future of public policies for youth, territorial dynamics and the sociability of young people living on the urban peripheries. This workshop included contributions from researchers, local mediators, social workers, teachers, artists and coordinators and young people involved in Escolhas projects.
The PERICREATIVITY team would like to thank everyone who contributed to this conference and hopes that we will meet again at future project events!