ESA RN37 ""Decentered Cities: Overlooked Urban Narratives and Shifting Centralities"
From September 3 to 5, the PeriCreativity team took part in the VI Midterm Conference of ESA RN37, under the theme “Decentered Cities: Overlooked Urban Narratives and Shifting Centralities”, held at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Coimbra. The team presented the paper “We Never Talk About Our Neighborhood Like This”: Potentials of Co-Creation with Youth from Marginalized Territories, co-authored by Beatriz Lacerda, Lígia Ferro, and Otávio Raposo.
Papers on XIII Portuguese Congress of Sociology
Between July 8 and 11, 2025, the team took part in the XII Portuguese Congress of Sociology (APS) "Democracias à prova: Riscos e Incertezas" (Democracies to the Test: Risks and Uncertainties), held at the University of the Azores, in Ponta Delgada, on the island of São Miguel. In addition to Otávio Raposo's coordination of the Thematic Section "Territories, Cities, Fields and Seas", the team presented three papers on the project: ""What you should know about me is that I'm from the neighborhood": youth discourses and representations about belonging to the city", by Beatriz Lacerda, Lígia Ferro and Otávio Raposo; "The production of knowledge with young people in segregated urban territories: scientific challenges of co-creation", by Lígia Ferro, Otávio Raposo, Pedro Varela and Beatriz Lacerda; "Segregation, relocations and memory: the case of the Armador neighborhood, Chelas" by Mateus Sadock, Otávio Raposo and Lígia Ferro; and "Dynamics of Juvenile Participation: an ethnographic analysis of an Escolhas project in the city of Porto", by Leonor Medon and Lígia Ferro.
Congress of the Ibero–Latin American Association of Political Psychology
On June 28, 2025, Beatriz Lacerda presented her work on PeriCreativity at a roundtable alongside other young PhD researchers titled “Emerging Research in the Field of Political Psychology and Political Education”, at the Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences. This roundtable was part of the Ibero-Latin American Association of Political Psychology Congress, which took place from June 26 to 28, 2025, under the theme “Transition, Change, and Resistance: Challenges for Political Psychology and Education”.
International Conference - Peripheral Creativities: Youth, Territory and Public Policy
On January 30–31, 2025, the PeriCreativity team organized the project’s mid-term conference, which brought together several researchers as well as other civil society actors who work and live in peripheral territories. The event took place at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto and at Casa das Glicínias, in the Engenheiro Machado Vaz neighborhood.
Workshop ‘Ethnography, co-creation and social transformation’
On 28 November 2024, members of the PeriCreativity team held the workshop ‘Ethnography, co-creation and social transformation’ in the Humanities Lab room at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Porto. This workshop was a partnership between PeriCreativity and the post-doctoral project ‘Between utopias and dystopias: youth and meanings of the future in Portugal and Brazil’ by Alexandre Barbosa Pereira (UNIFESP). This was a reflection on the social and ethical challenges of ethnography in the peripheral territories of Porto, Lisbon and São Paulo, based on different empirical experiences.
Presentation at the Conference of the Institute of Sociology of the University of Porto
On October, 11th of 2024, the PeriCreativity team took part in the Is-UP Conference with the presentation “Peripheral and Creative Youth in Portugal: From Scientific Inquiry to Co-Creation” by Lígia Ferro, Otávio Raposo, Pedro Varela, and Beatriz Lacerda.
Presentation at the 16th Conference of the European Sociological Association
Between August 27 and 30, 2024, the PERICREATIVITY team participated in the 16th Conference of the European Sociological Association (ESA), titled “Tension, Trust and Transformation”, in Porto, with four presentations: “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, Lígia Ferro 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.
Participation in International Conference V: COMbART: Art, artivism and citizenship: Revolutions, protests and aesthetic-political activism
Between July 3th and 5th of 2024, the PERICREATIVITY team took part in the International Conference ‘V: COMbART: Art, artivism and citizenship: Revolutions, protests and aesthetic-political activism’, held at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Porto, in Porto, Portugal. The meeting was organised by Paula Guerra and Ricardo Campos, a member of PERICREATIVITY, and was supported by the Porto Institute of Sociology (IS-UP), the Interdisciplinary Centre for Social Sciences (CICS. NOVA, NOVA FCSH and IPLEIRIA), CITCEM - Transdisciplinary Research Centre ‘Culture, Space and Memory’ and LabEA - Art Education Research Laboratory / FBAUP. The paper presented at this conference was ‘Understanding the expressions of creativity of young people from the urban peripheries to the cultural centre. Preliminary results of the Pericreatvity project’, in the session Artistic Expressions, Modernity and Peripheries, by team members João Carlos Martins, Otávio Raposo, Lígia Ferro and Carla Malafaia.
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”.
From September 3 to 5, the PeriCreativity team took part in the VI Midterm Conference of ESA RN37, under the theme “Decentered Cities: Overlooked Urban Narratives and Shifting Centralities”, held at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Coimbra. The team presented the paper “We Never Talk About Our Neighborhood Like This”: Potentials of Co-Creation with Youth from Marginalized Territories, co-authored by Beatriz Lacerda, Lígia Ferro, and Otávio Raposo.