Dialogical artistic practices against urban renewal processes: London, Amsterdam and Barcelona (1981-2010)
Abstract
This article explores the challenges that dialogical artistic practices pose to urbanism in the European global city. The main aim consists of identifying alternative ways of conceiving the city; originating in art that is committed to urban transformation, they clearly contribute to reviewing, influencing and opening up the critical scrutiny of gentrifying urbanism to come up with a new term that is borrowed from the artistic field: dialogical urbanism. The research is structured in four phases: the first is to frame the approach of urban renewal processes from the artistic field. The second, a study of three European cases located in the artistic field that have brought into question urbanism that is complicit in the gentrification process. The third phase is discovering the discursive lines shared between the history of humanistic urbanism and these case studies. And fourth, a critical review of the rescue of these artistic practices by urban planning. Finally, it concludes with a series of challenges that present the activist and community art as a useful lens to identify difficulties that will serve to interrogate and promote a more polysemic, critical and genuinely participated urbanism.
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