Drawing as a Tool for Dialogue Between Technicians and Citizens: Practical Application in a Neighborhood of Seville

Drawing in participatory processes of ecosocial transition plays an interface role in presenting information, synthesizing and communicating participatory diagnoses and shaping the ideas co-created with communities. Since the Aalborg Charter for Sustainable Cities to the Urban Agendas, participation and sustainability form an inseparable binomial. The 3rd World Habitat Summit laid the foundations to link the Right to the City with the formulation of strategies, plans and projects of transition towards sustainability, deploying the Sustainable Development Goals along the territory. What forms of expression are the most appropriate in each phase of these processes according to their purpose? What techniques are most suitable? To address these questions, we establish dialogical relationships between the theory of production and social management of habitat and the theory of architectural graphic expression. With this theoretical framework we will analyze the drawings presented to the participants in the elaboration of the “Huerta del Carmen en Transición” and we will draw conclusions about the relationship between purpose, technique and form of expression of these drawings.