Participatory Territorial Approaches: The Municipal Culture Agendas, Identity and Local Knowledge

This article offers a global presentation on the participatory process of elaboration of the Municipal Agendas of Culture taken from thirty-eight Municipalities of twelve Uruguayan regions; they were designed with the participation of great diversity of local participants between the months of August and December of 2017. The article gathers the synthesis of the conceptual framework, summarizes the work methodology, systematizes the results of participation in all the local processes, as well as the evaluations of the participants and presents lessons learned, conclusions and recommendations. It also explains in depth the processes and thoughts which have given birth to the specific case of the program developed in Uruguay.