We intend to bring together professors, students and professionals from various disciplines, as well as social organizations and the general public. People who share intentions and practices around the construction of community frameworks that seek to update and reinvent the common to build other possible lives and resist socio-economic-political situations that insist on denying them.

Community Psychology, as critical social psychology, has been nourished since its origins by the exchange of diverse knowledge, seeking to contribute to fight against multiple forms of oppression, prioritizing committed action and the co-production of situated knowledge. In the face of current emergencies, it is necessary to discuss, in political, cultural, social and subjective terms, the ways in which we want to reproduce life in common. To achieve this, it is essential to continue articulating perspectives that include renewed perspectives and the heterogeneity of experiences that take place in different latitudes and that are sustained by affective relational frameworks as alternative forms of politics in current situations.

The role that universities play is crucial. In a framework of cognitive capitalism where commercialization, privatization and expropriation of knowledge is the commonplace, it is necessary to subject them to questioning from a decolonial perspective. University extension, as a way for the communalization of knowledge, allows the training of professionals and the production of knowledge to be problematized in their potential to contribute to collective processes and their forms of resistance. There are multiple experiences that are developed from universities and from different disciplines – often articulated – that call themselves community or socio-community practices and that involve various actors, such as: unions, housing cooperatives, feminist groups, social economy networks and solidarity, neighborhood commissions, LGBTIQ+ groups, environmental organizations, self-care networks, Afro-descendant and indigenous groups, community radio stations, cultural and artistic groups, among others.

We hope that this event makes an opportunity to deepen exchanges and debates, to share experiences, to redefine and create, to recognize our powers; In short, to maintain joyful encounters that allow us to grow together and dream of other worlds…

We wait for you!!

Organizing Team