Methodological Proposal for the appropriation and social knowledge construction through community cartography and Participatory Action Research. An approaching to Santo Domingo as a place

Abstract

This research exercise is thought from the epistemological-methodological framework of Participatory Action Research -PAR- and community mapping for the appropriation of space and social knowledge construction. The Participatory Action Research is situated as a mediation of a process that seeks to resignify socio-cultural and historical practices, as well as the recognition of the subjects as actors and managers of the neighborhood project and empowerment of the habited place in Santo Domingo Savio. It is proposed an approach that slides from subjectivities recognized with participation from agents of the territory and the symbolic interaction toward the computer cartographic language; from this perspective, it is possible to capture the experience in the territory and the traces of daily life on the map, which can be rebuilt in Open Street Maps to give account of the empowerment, appropriation, and tensions that are generated as phenomena of the subject-environment link. The impact of the incorporation of the Comuna 1 into the city project has transformed the different social dynamics of the neighborhood with the city, creating other spaces of interaction and identity, revealing frictions and tensions in the recognition-appropriation that the inhabitants make of their territory and surroundings, as well as the graphic representations of these experiences and transformations that can be read, and the solutions that can be provided from cartographic knowledge.