The urban and rural transformations that are taking place in the territory of Campanhã, in the city of Porto, where the coexistence of low socioeconomic status neighborhoods articulates with new aesthetic and artistic rationalities constitute, in a way, a reference for so many other cities and territories at national and international levels. I would say that it is a moment characterized by a certain liminality of urban time, where Campanhã is, for now, a hybrid territory, with very different characteristics that are the accumulation of various periods, uses, programs and strategies or, as the geographer Álvaro Domingues said, a transgenic landscape.

This work reflects on community-based practices and interactions that focus on transformative development through participation, as well as on identity as evidence of the particularly complex relationship between spatial and social structure, individual and collective memory, and the symbolic significance of space. Drawing from anthropological literature and methodology, this project is eliciting citizens’ narratives as a performance of restitution of their right to the city.