ABSTRACT
In the context of Santiago's real estate ecology, gentrification has not been addressed as a specific process to be planned or even regulated by political institutions. The sustained effort of operating in the unregulated spaces of gentrification, industrial heritage and creative economies, had allowed for the practice-based definition of general concepts. The communal ethos derived from prototyping the site-specific cultural institutions has led Mil M2 to develop a series of devices able to spread the type of public sharing and to inquire reached at this institutions, furthering communal engagement and participation. These devices had been developed both for artistic events and for advocating projects; becoming the basis of the economic sustainability of the group. The deployment of the devices takes place in a social context where participatory politics represents a way out of the neoliberal conundrum. An uncritical reproduction of participation methodologies by public officers have smoothed the rough edges of the demands of communities, and neutralising its transformative power.
