International Conference - Peripheral Creativities: Youth, Territory and Public Policy
The conference “Peripheral Creativities: Youth, Territories and Public Policies” was the middle conference of the PERICREATIVITY project, attended by various researchers and other civil society actors who work and live in peripheral territories, helping to strengthen new networks and enrich current debates in the field of territory, youth and public policies. It took place on January 30 and 31 at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Porto and at Casa das Glicínias in Contumil.
Workshop: Ethnography, co-creation and social transformation
It was an invitation to reflect on the social and ethical challenges of ethnography in the peripheral territories of Porto, Lisbon and São Paulo, based on different empirical experiences. Divided into two parts, in this workshop participants will have the opportunity to take part in the current discussion on the paths of scientific production in co-creation and its transformative potential, as well as to think about the application of this approach in their own projects and together with the facilitators. The organizers were Lígia Ferro (IS-UP/FLUP), Alexandre Barbosa Pereira (UNIFESP), Otávio Raposo (CIES-Iscte-IUL), Pedro Varela (CIES-Iscte-IUL) and Beatriz Lacerda (FLUP/IS-UP). It took place on November 28 at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Porto.
IS-UP Research Days
Participation in the IS-UP Research Days with the paper “Peripheral and creative youth in Portugal: from scientific disquiet to co-creation”. It took place on October 11 at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Porto.
Team participation in the 16th Conference of the European Sociological Association
Between August 27th and 30th, 2024, the PERICREATIVITY team took part in the 16th ESA Conference, “Tension, Trust and Transformation”, in Porto, with four papers: “From Empowerment to Control? The Case of a National Programme for Young People in Peripheral Territories”, by Pedro Abrantes, Otávio Raposo, Lígia Ferro, Pedro Varela, Beatriz Lacerda, Liliana J. Moreira, Teresa Seabra and João M. Teixeira Lopes; “Creative Youth in a Changing Neighbourhood: Public Policies, Projects and Associations in a Segregated Area in the Lisbon Periphery”, by Pedro Varela, Otávio Raposo and Lígia Ferro; “Who Owns the Streets? Understanding Social Representations Of Youngsters Use Of The Streets In Public Policies, And Their Consequences”, by Beatriz Lacerda, Ferro Lígia and Otávio Raposo; “Peripheral Portugal: conceptualizations and epistemologies on the Lisbon and Porto's suburban territories”, by Otávio Raposo, Lígia Ferro, Rita Cachado, Gabriela Leal, Pedro Varela and Mateus Sadock;
Presentation of scientific e-poster "FCT Science Meeting’"
Presentation of scientific e-poster “Who Owns the Streets? Youth social representations of the street, the neighborhood and the territory in Campanhã” by Beatriz Lacerda at the ‘FCT Science Meeting’ from July 3 to 5 at the Alfândega do Porto Congress Center.
Dialogue with the work of researcher Adrienne Lee Aterberry (SUNY)
In November 2023, researcher Adrienne Lee Aterberry, from the State University of New York (SUNY), was a visitor at the Institute of Sociology of the University of Porto (IS-UP), with a program of activities entitled “Growing up in the 21st Century: Unpacking the Facets of Contemporary Youth”. On November 23rd, the PERICREATIVITY team participated in the round table “Youth: migration, racism and ethnicities”, with the communication “Youth public policy in Portugal: Peripheral (im)possibilities”.
Participation in the Youth Action Culture conference
Between the 13th and 14th of November 2023, the PERICREATIVITY team participated in the International Congress “Youth Action Culture – Towards Cultural Democracy”, held in Caldas da Rainha, Portugal, where they presented the project in the panel “Inspiring Projects I: ARTivism, politics, citizenship and cultural rights”. The meeting was organized collaboratively between the National Plan for the Arts (PNA), the European Network of Observatories in the Field of Arts and Cultural Education (ENO), the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, the Escola Superior de Artes e Design das Caldas da Rainha (ESAD .CR) (UNESCO Chair in “Management of Arts and Culture, Cities and Creativity” at the Polytechnic Institute of Leiria) and followed up on the publication of the Porto Santo Charter (2021).
Communication at ESA RN27 Mid-Term Conference
Between the 21st and 22nd of September 2023, the PERICREATIVITY team participated in ESA RN37 Mid-Term Conference: Territories, communities and sustainability: views from Southern Europe, at the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences of Universidade Nova de Lisboa (FCSH-UNL ) Portugal. The communication “The transformation of a community through culture and artistic practice in the Torre neighborhood, metropolitan area of Lisbon” was presented here.
Communication at the XII Portuguese Sociology Congress of the APS
Between the 4th and 6th of April 2023, the PERICREATIVITY team participated in the “XII Portuguese Congress of Sociology” of the Portuguese Sociology Association (APS), at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Coimbra (FE-UC), Portugal, with the communication “Peripheral creativity in a society crossed by polarization processes: from inequalities to opportunities”.
The conference “Peripheral Creativities: Youth, Territories and Public Policies” was the middle conference of the PERICREATIVITY project, attended by various researchers and other civil society actors who work and live in peripheral territories, helping to strengthen new networks and enrich current debates in the field of territory, youth and public policies. It took place on January 30 and 31 at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Porto and at Casa das Glicínias in Contumil.