Redes comunitarias: prácticas artísticas colaborativas, movimientos sociales y salud.Experiencias en Puente de Vallecas, Madrid

Abstract

The following doctoral thesis, called Community Networks: Collaborative Artistic Practices, Social Movements and Health. Experiences in Puente de Vallecas, Madrid. gathers a research process about ways of doing that we place between artistic practices, social movements and community work, and which are articulated from collaboration. To this purpose, we propose to approach them from the situated experience, and we resort to a number of proposals developed in the district of Puente de Vallecas in Madrid.This research intends firstly to investigate and trace synergies between the three areas mentioned above, in order to later analyze the potential of these ways of doing things as generators of social transformation. In this regard, from the beginning of the research it is proposed to link this concept to daily changes and to the wellbeing of people and communities; and furthermore, these potentialities are linked to the capacity of these ways of doing to generate links and networks in an encompassing territory such a neighborhood...