Editorial

Territory in Flux: Mediation, and Hybrid Practices

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.48619/gsa.v3i2.A1286

Abstract

The notion of territory has long exceeded its strictly geographic definition. In contemporary urban and cultural research, territory is increasingly understood as a layered construct—simultaneously material and symbolic, regulated and contested, lived and represented. The 2025 edition of Urban Creativity, whose overarching theme was Territory, foregrounded this expanded understanding by bringing together researchers and practitioners concerned with how boundaries are produced, negotiated, and dissolved across urban, cultural, and artistic practices.

This issue of GSA – Graffiti and Street Art Journal, titled Territory in Flux: Mediation, and Hybrid Practices, emerges directly from that context. It reflects the dialogical spirit that has characterized Urban Creativity since its inception twelve years ago: a shared platform where disciplinary territories are deliberately crossed, and where academic research remains in close conversation with practice-based knowledge, informal cultural production, and critical urban experience.

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Author Biography

Pedro Soares Neves

Pedro Soares Neves (PhD), 1976, Lisbon. Multidisciplinary and post graduate academic training in design and architecture (Barcelona and Rome), and Lisbon University scholar. Specialized in participatory methodologies and informal visual signs in public space (eg, Graffiti and Street Art). Lecturer and urban designer / consultant at metropolitan and city scale (eg, project CRONO), co-responsible for adapting to Lisbon's exhibition "The Street Belongs to all of us" (IVM, Françoise Asher) and winner of the first prize for the “No Rules Great Spot” Oporto. Co creator and professor of “Non commissioned Public Art” workshop and scholar in Science and Technology Management in Faculty of Fine Arts University of Lisbon. Founder of the AP2 (Portuguese chapter of IAP2, International Association for Public Participation), APAURB (Portuguese Urban Art association), and of the Lisbon Urban Creativity Conference and ongoing associated International Research Topic (urbancreativity.org). Editor of the Urban Creativity Scientific Journals (journals.ap2) among other books.

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Published

2025-12-23

How to Cite

Neves, P. S. (2025). Editorial: Territory in Flux: Mediation, and Hybrid Practices. GSA - Graffiti and Street Art, 3(2), 1–7. https://doi.org/10.48619/gsa.v3i2.A1286

Issue

Vol. 3 No. 2 (2025): Inscribed Territories: Informal Governance

Section

Articles