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The potential for community transformation that youth participation has is increasingly recognized in the political-practical-academic sphere. The article analyzes the methodological learning of our participatory digital project based on music and the arts with Afro-Colombian and indigenous youth in Quibdó-Colombia, an area affected by conflict, violence and systemic marginalization. Presenting the co-produced digital methodology, we reflect on the challenges and opportunities that arise from engaging youth in marginalized geographies through creative and digital forms of engagement. As COVID-19 has highlighted the challenges of digital exclusion worldwide, our findings provide practical considerations to plan inclusive digital projects with marginalized youth, highlighting the need for relevant contextualization in methodological and pedagogical approaches, and transdisciplinary approaches of pedagogical teams to harness the potential of music and the arts in fostering youth participation.Keywords: young people, conflict, marginalization, digital methodologies, collaborative participation, music and arts.

This briefing is linked to our research project ¿Cuál es la verdad?. The project brought together young people, researchers from Colombia and the United Kingdom, artists, educators and Civil Society Organisations to respond to priorities identified by young people in Quibdó, Colombia: tensions within and between neighbourhoods (barrios), violence and armed gangs, and visualising alternative futures. The briefing reflects on our ongoing learning in relation to engaging online with young people who have been ‘marginalised’ (due to structural exclusion based on socioeconomic background, race, ethnicity, gender or location). It raises questions for educators and researchers who want to plan, reflect on and deepen their online engagement with marginalised young people in fragile or conflict-affected settings.

Las ciudades del Sur global han ganado representatividad en las discusiones internacionalesacerca de gobernanza y sostenibilidad. Esto parece apenas lógico considerando que la mayoríade la población mundial habita en ellas. En particular, Medellín ha recibido bastante atencióngracias a una serie de intervenciones urbanas que han sido vinculadas con el mejoramiento de diferentes aspectos de la calidad de vida de sus habitantes. En este artículo discutimos cómo se materializa la gobernanza y cómo toma diferentes formas, de acuerdo con las condiciones y actores específicos en cada caso. Adicionalmente, exploramos el caso de Juan Bobo, un proyecto piloto de consolidación habitacional llevado a cabo en la ciudad de Medellín. A través de este caso buscamos entender cómo la gobernanza toma forma en condiciones de informalidad ycómo se pueden lograr combinaciones funcionales de estilos de gobernanza para solucionar algunos de los problemas que aquejan a los barrios autoconstruidos de la ciudad. Cities in the global South have received attention in global governance and sustainability discussions. This seems to be a logical result, considering that most people in the world live inthem. In particular, Medellín has received important attention thanks to a series of urban interventionsrelated to the improvement of different aspects of the quality of life of its inhabitants. In this article we discuss how governance is materialized and takes different shapes depending on the conditions and actors in each specific case. Additionally, we explore the case of Juan Bobo, a housing consolidation pilot project that took place in the city of Medellín. Through this case, we try to understand how governance takes shape under informal conditions andhow can different functional combinations of governance styles be achieved to solve some of the problems that affect self-built neighborhoods in the city.

Si bien los sectores inmediatos al área de desarrollo del proyecto cuentan con dinámicas comerciales complementarias al centro de la ciudad, el barrio Travesuras La Churria ha sido referenciado como una zona deprimida con desarrollo de vivienda informal, razón por la cual este proyecto de “Acupuntura Urbana”, plantea una propuesta de transformación socio-espacial. Este proyecto incluye la reubicación de 160 familias, que viven en zonas de riesgo alto no mitigable o sobre la margen de protección de la quebrada La Dulcera o en predios pertenecientes al municipio de Pereira, para lo cual se plantea el desarrollo de viviendas multifamiliares en el mismo sector, con el fin de no generar desplazamiento de las familias a otras zonas de la ciudad. De este modo, se busca mejorar las condiciones de habitabilidad, el fortalecimiento del tejido social y la consolidación de un corredor ambiental que permita vitalizar este sector de la ciudad entorno a dicha fuente hídrica., While the immediate sectors to the project development area have complementary trade dynamics to the city center, the neighborhood has been referred to as dangerous area with the development of illegal housing, which is why this urban acupuncture project, it is proposed for physical and social transformation. This project includes the relocation of 160 families, living in high-risk areas or the margin of protection of the river La Dulcera or in areas owned by the municipality of Pereira, this is why the development of multifamily housing in the same sector is begin considered, in order not to generate movement of families to other areas of the city. In this way, the conditions of living area will improve, by strengthening social fabric and consolidation an environmental corridor let this sector of the city be vitalized around this water fountain.