Participatory artistic practices in southern peripheries: Impacts and challenges

Abstract

The aim of this chapter is to reflect on the impacts of Stronger Peripheries (SP). !e impact assessment for a project such as this is necessarily complex, multidimensional and requires a time frame and a distance that are not easily compatible with the scope of a four-year project. With this in mind, we structure our panoramic assessment exercise into three deferent—but complementary—levels: (i) a processual evaluation, focused on the implementation of the activities of the SP project and in comparing researchers’ observations with factual data collected from the project activities; (ii) a systematization of challenges that participatory processes pose and that cultural agents face in applying these processes in the future in this kind of international collaborative projects; and (iii) an exploratory synthesis of the diverse types of impacts (artistic, social, economic, etc.) felt by the communities involved in the project, based essentially on the deferent partners’ self assessment, of the activities undertaken during their artistic tandems.