Performative Citizenship. Public Art, Urban Design, And Political 
Participation
Edited by: Laura Iannelli; Pierluigi Musarò
http://mimesisinternational.com/performative-citizenship-public-art-urban-design-and-political-participation/

Cover: Paperback
ISBN: 978-88-6977-034-0
Pages: 230
Date: 2017
Price: $ 20.00 / £ 15.00 / € 18,00

The essays collected in this book adopt different disciplinary 
approaches to point out the forms of citizens’ participation developed 
in the field of contemporary public art and urban design. From Sardinia 
to Queensland, New York to Bologna, Hasselt and Genk to L’Aquila, Rio de 
Janeiro to Utrecht, these essays analyze a variety of projects that deal 
with political conflicts of the societal life in the urban spaces, such 
as environmental risks and immigrant populations; propose diverse forms 
of citizens’ participation in the representations of marginalized 
interests, values, problems, and needs; offer to citizens and 
policy-makers new ways of thinking about territory renewal; and aim to 
reorient the decisions taken in the field of institutionalized politics, 
either denouncing territory governance or supporting its improvement.

Laura Iannelli is Assistant Professor of Sociology of Culture and 
Communication at the University of Sassari. She received her Ph.D. in 
Theory and Social Research from Sapienza University in Rome. She has 
published various book chapters and articles on communication and 
participation and in 2016 authored the book “Hybrid Politics. Media and 
Participation” (Sage).

Pierluigi Musarò is Associate Professor of Sociology of Culture and 
Communication at the University of Bologna, Visiting Fellow at the 
London School of Economics and Political Science, and Research Fellow at 
the Institute for Public Knowledge, New York University. He has 
co-edited, with Paola Parmiggiani, ‘Beyond Humanitarian Narratives’, 
Sociologia della Comunicazione (2013).

Table of contents

Chapter 1
Laura Iannelli and Pierluigi Musarò
Participation Matters. The Political Spheres of Public Art and Urban Design

Chapter 2
Nico Carpentier
The Concept of Participation:
If They Have Access and Interact, Do They Really Participate?

Chapter 3
Laura Iannelli and Carolina M. Marelli
Cultures in Action. Public Art and Political Participation

Chapter 4
Luca Massidda and Lorenza Parisi
Public Art 2.0? Exploring the Ambivalent Relationship Between Two 
Participatory Logics

Chapter 5
Pierluigi Musarò
The Art of De-Bordering. How the Theater of Cantieri Meticci Challenges 
the Lines Between Citizens and Non-Citizens

Chapter 6
Andrea Baldini and Pamela Pietrucci
Knitting a Community Back Together. Post-Disaster Public Art as 
Citizenship Engagement

Chapter 7
Jhessica Reia
‘We Are not a Protest’. Street Performance and/as Public Art in the City 
of Rio De Janeiro

Chapter 8
Antonello Monsù Scolaro
Participated Regeneration Processes of Abandoned Places: Experimentation 
in Sardinia (Italy)

Chapter 9
Nausicaa Pezzoni
Migrants Maps to Explore the Contemporary City

Chapter 10
Max Holleran and Samuel Holleran
Pop-Up Engagement. Design Thinking, Museum ‘Labs’, and Urban Problem 
-Solving

Chapter 11
Ils Huygens
The Union Hasselt-Genk. A Case Study on Participation, Duration and 
Sustainability

Chapter 12
Danielle Arets
Prototyping Politics. Design for Voicing Conflicting Ideas and Interests

Chapter 13
Redirective Practice
Making an Age of Repair: Queensland. A Case Study of Participatory 
Process in Practice

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