Public Spaces through Art
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This article examines how urban art contributes to experiences of home through a case study of the WOOL Urban Art Festival in Covilhã, Portugal. Drawing on theories of home, place and public space, it argues that murals do more than regenerate urban environments or strengthen local identity: they foster belonging by reconnecting communities with landscape, industrial heritage, collective memory and everyday sociability. Through the analysis of four site-specific artworks, the article proposes home as a productive conceptual framework for understanding the social and cultural significance of contemporary urban art and its role in the continual production of place.
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@article{Horta2026Imagining,
title = {Imagining Home in Urban Art},
author = {Paula Horta},
journal = {Street Art & Urban Creativity},
year = {2026},
doi = {10.62161/sauc.v12.6388},
url = {https://doi.org/10.62161/sauc.v12.6388}
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