Madrid · 24/01/2013
The Universal Declaration of Urban Rights takes part in TransformingMadrid, a research project led by Ariadna Cantis and José María Ezquiaga within the Madrid Think Tank programme at COAM.
TransformingMadrid proposes a series of debates and encounters to reflect on the social and spatial transformations currently reshaping Madrid. At a time when the city is changing rapidly, the project opens up questions around urban models, conflicts, possibilities and the new forms of participation that are beginning to emerge.
Within this context, #urbanrights joins the conversation as a tool to read the city through civic practices, care, everyday uses and collective forms of appropriation of urban space.
The Declaration understands that Madrid’s transformation cannot be explained only through large urban operations or institutional planning. It is also built from below: through neighbourhoods, local networks, shared spaces, cultural initiatives and communities experimenting with new ways of inhabiting and claiming the city.
Taking part in TransformingMadrid is an opportunity to continue testing the Declaration in dialogue with other agents, projects and research initiatives that are thinking about Madrid’s urban present and future.