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Eizaguirre Anglada, Santiago “Cultural commons as a key for bottom-linked policies. An exploration of the support for public and community partnerships in Barcelona”. on the w@terfront. Barcelona. Universitat de Barcelona vol. 64, nr. 12, p. 3-39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1344/waterfront2021.63.12.01

This article aims to heighten our understanding of community managed cultural facilities, considering that these may be key for the future of cities. The research includes observant participation, thematic analysis of group debates and in-depth interviews with activists and professionals in the domain of community action in Barcelona. The author documents the construction of active collaboration networks of a wide variety of organizations fostering cultural commons in Barcelona, and highlights the efforts they have made to develop performance assessment tools.
The conclusions consider the issue of mutual understanding between neighborhood movements, community action professionals, and the social economy sector. The author underlines how public-community partnerships can use networking activities to develop a constructive and critical approach to public service delivery and enhance collective learning about economic democratization. Vital importance is given to institutionalization of regulatory tools and the indicators needed to assess the value added by these partnerships.