Spaces and urban realities: processes of intervention across the social practice

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Roxana Sosa Sánchez
Dimitrina Jivkova Semova

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The excessive growth of the big cities linked to the trend to the urbanization like constant phenomenon in the current landscape of the territory, originates a public space increasingly reduced opposite to the effects of the globalization, concerning finally the interaction between the citizens. One of the current challenges of the urban politics is not other one that to underline the importance of the dynamics of proactivity and thought critic - innovator in the public space as tools for the joint of the multiple urban dimension treats himself about practices orientated to the active implication on the part of the citizens in the process of planning and configuration, to political and social level, about   city. This investigation based on an European project, Erasmus+ Artivism: artistic practices as instruments for social transformation nowadays in process, is focused in the problems of social participation of the young persons and citizenship activates, and tries to answer to relevant questions in the such process of urban conformation as which is the perception of the young people to near the public space?, what typology of social / urban conflicts they  perceived and how to detect them in a physical and virtual space?

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Roxana Sosa Sánchez, Universidad Complutense

Professor at the Faculty of Information Sciences, Complutense University of Madrid. Accredited to Contracted Professor Doctor. PhD from the University of Oviedo. Degree in Political Science and Sociology. Diploma in Social Work. She has traveled as an expert in gender studies to the Benemérita Autonomous University of Puebla (BUAP, Mexico), as well as to the UNAM, Mexico D.F. Her research focuses on visual culture and media analysis of female representation from a gender point of view, with a sociological base and interdisciplinary character. She is the author and co-author of numerous publications: books, book chapters and academic articles, published in impact journals. He has also participated in more than twenty research projects with competitive grants and teacher innovation projects. He is a member of the Feminist Research Institute of the UCM.

Dimitrina Jivkova Semova, Asistant teacher. Ciencias de la Información Complutense of Madrid

Degree in Journalism from the University of Sofia and in Audiovisual Communication from the Complutense University of Madrid. Specialization in International Relations. Bilingual Master's Degree in Political, Social and Regional Development of Germany. PhD in Journalism from the Complutense University. Researcher at the Royal Complutense College of Harvard University and the Freie Universität Berlin. Professor and researcher in Political Communication, Ethics and Professional Deontology, Theory of Communication and Information, Publicity and Public Relations. Professor at the Complutense University of Madrid and at the Camilo José Cela University. She has been a Professor in the Master of Branded Content and Transmedia (Carlos III University). He currently collaborates in the Master of Political and Institutional Communication of the UCJC. Author of numerous books, chapters and articles indexed in journals JCR, Scimago, Scopus, Elsevier, SciELO, EBSO, Latindex, such as International Journal on Media Management, International Review of Information Ethics, OBS Journal, Keyword, Notebooks of Information and Communication, etc. He has worked and continues to collaborate in different agencies and media in Germany, Bulgaria and Spain. She works and is the coordinator for Spain of several European Projects on art, social inclusion, artivism and gender with associations and universities of France, Austria, Greece, Hungary, Finland, Portugal.

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Sosa Sánchez, R., & Jivkova Semova, D. (2018). Spaces and urban realities: processes of intervention across the social practice. Journal ICONO 14, 16(2), 74-99. https://doi.org/10.7195/ri14.v16i2.1119