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This chapter focusses on professionally facilitated efforts to promote young people’s participation through project-based activities located within young people’s everyday spaces. Inspired by theories of the emergence of a ‘project society’ (Jensen, 2012) and ‘projective regimes’ (Boltansky and Chiapello, 2005), the chapter discusses the implications of a regime driven by social mobility, fast and continuous innovation and managerial logics with the aim to promote societal activity through projects. Drawing on case studies of young people’s experiences while taking part in two project-based initiatives that aim to promote young people’s participation in school and in the psychiatric system respectively, the chapter demonstrates how this project regime greatly affects who how and to what aims young people are able to participate in change and decision-making.

Some low-income social housing neighborhoods are undergoing radical transformations in Denmark.  Classified as “ghettos” and “parallel societies,” and marked by area-specific legislation, we identify a triple exposure in these neighborhoods. The residents are exposed to inequality, stigmatization, and discriminatory inter-ventions. Parallel to this, cultural policies and programs have ap-proached these same neighborhoods based on the assumption that they can be “elevated” through art. Drawing upon a broader re-search in art project in four social housing areas (Eriksson, Nielsen, Sørensen and Yates, 2022), this article focuses on Gellerup Park in Aarhus and considers how two site-specific art platforms address the site and time-specific conditions of the area, offering alterna-tive relations and forms of engagement.

Produktiv friksjon» presenterer bakgrunnen for boka Kunstskapte fellesskap, den tverrfaglige metodikken som anvendes, og redegjør for hvordan sosiale praksiser og publikumsdeltagelse i kunsten har bidratt til nye forbindelseslinjer mellom kunst, hverdagsliv og samfunn. Friksjonsfylte fellesskap introduseres her som begrep, og det argumenteres for at kunstskapte fellesskap har en viktig demokratisk funksjon ved å skape rom for uenighet. Til sist presenteres artiklene i boka, som er delt inn i tre deler: Fellesskap som ambisjon, Fellesskap som praksis og Fellesskap under forhandling.

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