The seminar “Colours of Change: Urban Art, Community Participation and Public Policies in the Enguardas Neighbourhood” will be held on April 9 at 3 pm as part of the PolObs Culture 2024 Seminar Cycle — Connecting Doctoral Projects with Cultural Policies. The event will be broadcast online via the Zoom platform.
This session’s guest is Ana Castro, a PhD student in Cultural Studies at the University of Minho. She intends to reflect on the need to use mechanisms for mediating urban art that are socially committed and involve local communities, making them an active part of the process of creating this art.
Ana Castro, known as Ana Muska, was born in 1990 in Barcelos. After studying art in Guimarães, she studied Communication Design at FBAUP. In 2012, as her final project, she developed Circus, an artistic curatorial project with an event at Maus Hábitos. After completing her master’s degree in Multimedia, with a thesis on Urban Art in Porto, she co-founded Circus Network in 2015. Currently, as a PhD student in Cultural Studies at UM, her research analyses the communication strategies of urban art in Social Neighbourhoods, focusing her study on Bairro das Enguardas.
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