To start the day, you have heard the experiences of three different realities of Euskal Herria: Baztan Joseba Otondo has referred to the profile of the institutions that participate in the promotion of citizen participation; Amaia Gabilondo and Miren Errasti, taking as their axis the Garaion project, have talked about the need to go beyond being agents, naming themselves “tractors”; and Xotil Natke has explained the project “From the shore to the center” of Zalbia.

They have then had an interesting conversation between Denise Najmanovich and ARGIA collaborator Ula Iruretagoiena. Pulling the ends of the threads have problematized ideas such as resilience, planning vs strategy, care, coexistence, participative architecture...

Patxi Galarraga (Proiektua Urbes), Izaskun Soto (Hiritik At) and Gorka Segurola (Juntura Koop) participated in the round table “Transformative urbanism: from discourse to practice”. They have encouraged people to “overcome the role of omniscient technicians and to collaborate and participate” in urban planning, to seek alliances with village educators, health workers, social services... “We have tools, but we need to reflect on how we want to use them. Because the result varies greatly depending on the use given to it.” Concerns about participation have also been raised: How do you take everyone's word? If we're taking some social groups out of our mouths and we're systematically turning away? How do we want them to participate in the participation sessions we organise?

Finally, the attendees were able to enjoy a theatrical reading of the Spatial Policy Manual by Ula Iruretagoiena, Miki Lamedica and Ane Almandoz. The Feministaldia Festival was organized for the Kutsatu edition of the festival, with the objective of talking about architecture and gender.

Urbanism from bottom to top

They have also presented a leaflet with the name of the days. This is a joint initiative by the partners of the Hiritik At cooperative and the Oinherri Elkartea partnership. “In the brochure we propose a new urban model that we want to build from the bottom to the top. We have elaborated a proposal to rethink from the proximity, from day to day and from the political measure of the smallness that gives us childhood”.