environmental quality, civic participation and identity expression). These interventions will function as an experimental laboratory, involving artists, institutional stakeholders and local communities, providing the substance for the analytical scrutiny to be carried out. Based on the convergence of these dimensions, a general analytical framework for the potential of urban artistic interventions - as catalysers of territorial development processes - will be proposed, in order to provide strategic guidelines for policy intervention in "Margem Sul". Thus, the project aims to: (i) promote an articulated work between academic knowledge and civil society (T.1 / T.9); (ii) to develop a conceptual framework with