The REDES Workshop is a national scientific exchange meeting open to the entire research community to discuss the social participation of citizens and associations in relation to problems caused by rural depopulation, territorial conflicts or tourism. The workshop has always the perspective of new technologies as a motor for their implementation. In the same way, the debate on the development of Social Network Analysis is addressed, a methodology widely studied in disciplines such as Anthropology and Sociology, and which finds in this project a field of study linked to urbanism, specifically in the hybridization between the physical and virtual space.
The last REDES workshop, held on 25 and 26 May in Malaga, Spain, saw the participation of Claudia De Luca, from RURITAGE network.
The complete program was made up of two blocks. Redes workshop itself, organized in different tables for scientific debate, and some transfer days, which preceded and supported the scientific tables established in the workshop:
- “Transfer Days” of the REDES project. Network of Social Empathies. Funded by the FEDER/Junta de Andalucía program (UMA20-FEDERJA-131) – Ministry of Economic Transformation, Industry, Knowledge and Universities.
- “National Workshop” CITIZEN PARTICIPATION, SOCIAL EMPATHY AND COMMUNITY LIFE IN THE TRANSFORMATION OF CITIES AND THE TERRITORY.
Redes workshop has been a meeting platform between various disciplines interested in the phenomenon of citizen participation and associationism. It was aimed at researchers dedicated to the study of the social reality of emerging movements, associations and local communities together with the administration for the promotion of the culture of participation, together with researchers who delve into the development of Analysis of Social Networks, so there are architects, urban planners, geographers, anthropologists, sociologists, experts in political science, and those interested in the spatial and social dimension of the challenges described above.