Permanent Working Platform Co-creating the city – Right to the Diverse City

The right to the diverse city lays firstly on the responsible and shared management of the cultural commons. Yet, it also refers to three different issues: diversity, remembrance/heritage and creativity. Public policies for diverse cities also need to address a key consideration: the exercise of cultural rights and the access to culture. The presence of cultural manifestations accessible to everyone, either in public spaces or facilities (libraries, halls, etc.), stand for a traditional approach of it. The new responsibility of public authorities implies highlighting, facilitating and acknowledging autonomous cultural manifestations in cities. In this way, interculturality can become a tool and place for dialogue among the different cultures and cultural manifestations that inhabit the city, and public authorities can shift its logics and interact with “the commons”.