Desenvolvimento local em destinos turísticos alternativos: Estação Náutica de Avis (Alentejo - Portugal)

The objective of this article is to present a case study focusing on local development strategies of nautical tourism, currently underway in an inland territory, in the municipality of Avis in the Alentejo region (Portugal). The necessary mobilisation and involvement of the local stakeholders, in the use and valorisation of their endogenous resources toward the construction of an integrated tourist product,in an alternative tourist destination, has been achieved through the application of the world café methodology, which in this case proved to be innovative and fruitful. The results achieved fostered inter‑knowledge and the formation of teams work‑ ing together in a four‑helix process, articulating several local products toward structuring the integrated tourist product – Avis Nautical Station. We have seen how participative methodologies assume a structuring role, critical to success in the development processes. The added value of this article consists in sharing these methodologies toward their incorporation in specific sectors of activity such as tourism and other areas of intervention.

El documental social participativo: el protagonista como sujeto de la historia

Las metodologías participativas en el audiovisual basadas en las experiencias del documental social participativo (DSP) y la configuración de grupos de trabajo a partir de la Investigación y Acción Participativa (IAP) proponen una nueva epistemología constructiva donde se genera una traslación del protagonista como objeto de estudio a su plasmación como sujeto implicado en el relato de su historia y de su acontecer histórico comunitario. El protagonista, re-configurado entonces como sujeto de la enunciación a partir de metodologías participativas, potencia el desarrollo de experiencias documentales que configuran un nuevo corpus teórico-práctico. Nuevos vínculos entre distintos sujetos del saber donde se generan dinámicas de creación que configuran originales modelos de educación y de trasvase de conocimiento.Participative social documentaries: the protagonist as the subject of the storyAbstractAudiovisual participative methodologies based on participative social documentaries and group work in participative action research (PAR) represent a new constructive epistemology in which the protagonist moves from being the documentary’s object of study to becoming an active agent in telling their story and how the story happens in community. The protagonist, reconfigured as the subject of the enunciation though participative methodologies, makes it possible to create experiences of documentary film-making that constitute a new theoretical and practical corpus, establishing new links between various knowledge users, developing creative methods which can contribute to our ideas of what constitutes education and knowledge transfer.Keywords: Audiovisual communication, learning communities, paticipative documentary, action research, technology, education, university, societypp. 69-85