Open House, the Citizen Participation and the Cultural Appropriation of the City and its Architecture
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Open House, architecture, city, citizen participationAbstract
Architecture and the city have a reason for being with those who inhabit them, but this relationship is not always conscious, because expressive values are identified before their history, even after a conservation and refunctionalization process. Bringing heritage closer to population through architecture and the city is the objective of the annual Open House events, which various cities host with citizen participation acting as guides or visitors, allowing a dynamic cultural appropriation of the space and its surroundings. Assessing the experiences of Open House participants, in Barcelona and Madrid, allowed to conclude that every city, whatever its importance, deserves to show its history, compiled, narrated, (re)interpreted with the proactive participation of its inhabitants, administrations, trade organizations, schools of architecture and other related disciplines. Thus, without great resources, Architecture, the city, and its heritage will occupy a relevant place in the cultural imaginary of society.
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