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When reality involves characters of fiction, our society assumes with incredulous surprise the real possibility of the existence of this event, narrated a hundred times on the screens. In these days of June, the apocalypse of the megalopolis of New York, so often recounted in fiction, tinged reality with orange as one more effect of the materiality of climate change, witnessed for the umpteenth time by science. Perhaps the colors of that reality only seem real when we see them on a screen, as Alex, the protagonist of Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange, used to say. It is at this intersection, between media and cultural spaces, where everything happens and occurs, blurring and crossing boundaries between digital, non-digital, artistic, scientific, educational and social dimensions, that the need for plural, holistic and truly transformative attention to our contexts emerges. Reality must be approached by studying the codes of narration: cultural expression is inseparable from analysis. This issue 9 of Communiars. Journal of Image, Arts, and Critical and Social Education implies to continue deepening in this analytical approach that values the crossing of conceptual spaces, in the need to assume that knowledge is a space that encompasses multiple intertwined disciplines that address the context without detaching from its narratives. We are grateful for the work and commitment of the authors who have contributed to the development of this issue of the journal: Pedro Texeira and Marcelo Tramontano (Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil); Candela Ocón Aburto (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya); Leonor Bonifacio Sánchez (Universidad de Sevilla); Ruth Cabeza Ruiz, Rocío Alcázar Jiménez and Manuel Rodríguez Servián (Universidad de Sevilla); and Sergio Moneo Benítez (Universitat de Barcelona). Thank you. Omnia sunt communia.

This article aims to contribute to the debate on the urban reading concept, formulated from the systematization of practical experiences. Considering its extensive use, especially in urban studies, we offer a critical analysis that dialogues with several knowledge areas that cross it, particularly Cinema and Pedagogy. Initially, we propose to relate the concept to works by Paulo Freire, in which we find a crucial correspondence with the idea of reading the world (Freire, 1985). Such approximation highlights the transdisciplinary potential of the concept and the multiple possibilities related to understanding the term reading, especially the processes of reading the built environment. Seeking to elucidate ways of reading, we investigate the documentary film, exploring the know-how related to the audiovisual field as a means to observe, perceive, and interpret the city. Finally, the work approaches and analyzes the case of Filme de Rua, a Brazilian collective and a film of the same name, checking the limits and potential of these two examples for urban studies, especially within the field of Architecture and Urbanism.

This study is based on a premise linked to the art of Capoeira, a practice with a long history in Brazil, whose movements (often compared to certain dances) are performed to the rhythms of various instruments. This activity is taught to pupils in the 6th grade of primary school (ages 10 to 12). The first objective of the study is to find out the opinion of two class groups with regard to the conceptualisation of art. The second objective of the study is to find out what the participants think of Capoeira as an art form. To meet the second objective, we developed a 27-session teaching proposal, 24 of them in Physical Education and three in Music. This is a case study, in which the results show that a large number of students regard Capoeira as an art form, mainly because of the difficulty of performing some of the movements quickly and in close proximity to their partners, and also because they have to follow the rhythm of the music. The music teacher confirms this idea with similar ideas.

This article is developed under a teaching innovation proposal, where field trips and heritage are used to teach the subject of Visual and Audiovisual Plastic Education. This work is based on the previous investigation of outdoor education and field trips as active methodologies, in addition to the use of heritage as a didactic tool. This proposal has been made for the 3rd year of Compulsory Secondary Education at the Santa Aurelia Institute, Sevilla. Thanks to the study of its context and a tutored intervention, a proposal for a curricular itinerary has been carried out, where different cultural enclaves have been worked on that allow all the contents of the subject's curriculum to be given through the field trips themselves. In addition, an action protocol is collected that summarizes the proposed methodology, in order to be able to reproduce it in future teaching interventions.

Analizar el impacto de la COVID-19 en los modelos de negocio de las empresas de la ciudad de Cuenca permite reflexionar sobre el entendimiento de la vulnerabilidad o resiliencia de sus modelos de gestión. Aplicando una réplica del estudio Analyzing the impact of the coronavirus crisis on business models, de Ritter y Pedersen (2020a), con el enfoque del modelo de alineación de cuadrados en 14 casos de grupos corporativos familiares de la ciudad de Cuenca que participan en el estudio, se logró un análisis de los impactos de la pandemia de la COVID-19 en sus modelos de negocio. Al comparar los resultados con los del estudio en Dinamarca, se concluye con la importancia de reconocer los niveles de vulnerabilidad y resiliencia de los modelos de negocio ante una crisis, con lo que se ofrece una herramienta importante para tomar decisiones estratégicas de gestión para la nueva normalidad.                                                                  Palabras clave: Impacto, estrategia, análisis, resiliencia, empresas, crisis, COVID-19. Abstractnalyzing the impact of the COVID-19 on business models of companies in the city of Cuenca provides reflections on the understanding of the vulnerability or resilience of their management models. Applying, a replica of the study “Analyzing the impact of the coronavirus crisis on business models” (Ritter & Pedersen, 2020a) using the square alignment model approach in 14 cases of family corporate groups in the city of Cuenca that participate in the study, an analysis of the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on their business models was achieved and when comparing the results with those of the study in Denmark, it is concluded with noting the importance of recognizing the levels of vulnerability and resilience of the business models in the face or a crisis thereby offering an important tool for making strategic management decisions for the new normal.  Keywords: Impact, strategy, analysis, resilience, enterprise, crisis, COVID-19

Este artículo analiza la relación entre el diseño organizacional del sistema de instituciones que son parte del Gobierno Autónomo Descentralizado Municipal del cantón Cuenca, en Ecuador, y los Planes de Desarrollo y Ordenamiento Territorial del mismo cantón de los periodos 2009 - 2014 y 2014 - 2019. La investigación basa sus reflexiones en la discusión teórica entre la perspectiva del rol de los Estados y gobiernos locales y las teorías del diseño organizacional en el ámbito público, con lo cual se pone en valor la importancia de diseñar y consolidar sistemas de organizaciones públicas para llevar a la práctica planes de desarrollo. Este estudio es de enfoque cualitativo de alcance descriptivo que utilizó como métodos entrevistas, revisión bibliográfica y análisis de cuerpos normativos expedidos por las autoridades competentes, así como los informes de rendiciones de cuentas de las autoridades locales. La investigación revisa los planes de desarrollo y ordenamiento territorial y los relaciona con los diseños organizacionales aplicados en los mismos periodos. La hipótesis de la investigación es que la planificación territorial del largo plazo tiene un correlato con el diseño organizacional de los sistemas institucionales de los gobiernos locales.Palabras Clave: Administración local, administración pública, estructura administrativa, gobierno municipal, políticasJEL (español): H1 Estructura y ámbito del sector público AbstractThis article analyzes the relationship between the organizational design in a local Government with the Development and Land Management Plans for the period 2009 - 2014 and 2014 - 2019. The research bases its reflections on the theoretical discussion between the perspective of the role of States and local governments and the theories of organizational design in the public sphere, which values the importance of designing and consolidating systems of public organizations to carry out development plans into practice. This study is of a qualitative approach of descriptive scope that showed methods of interviews, bibliographic review, and analysis of normative bodies issued by the competent authorities, as well as the reports of accountability of the local authorities. The research reviews the development and territorial planning plans and relates them to the organizational designs applied in the same periods. The research hypothesis is that long-term territorial planning correlates with organizational design of the institutional systems of local governments. Keywords: Local administration, public administration, organizational structure, municipal government, politics JEL (inglés): H11 Structure, Scope, and Performance of Government.  

El crecimiento tecnológico y la necesidad de acceder a información rápidamente ha provocado que la demanda por empresas que brinden un servicio de internet ágil y eficiente incremente, provocando incertidumbre en estas empresas por ser mejores que la competencia y retener al consumidor. El desarrollo metodológico se llevó a cabo por medio de una investigación descriptiva con enfoque cuantitativo. Se recolectó 402 datos en la Provincia del Azuay. Para el análisis de resultados se realizó regresiones lineales simples y compuestas que permitieron analizar la influencia sobre la intención de cambiarse de proveedor. Los hallazgos encontrados evidencian que la percepción de riesgo de la empresa incide de manera positiva en los consumidores al querer cambiarse de proveedor, mientras que la percepción de la calidad de marca no tiene significancia sobre su intención de compra; sin embargo, cuando éstas se evalúan en conjunto, su impacto sobre la intención de compra es positiva. Palabras clave:  Calidad, empresa, Intención de compra, percepción, riesgo. AbstractTechnological growth and the need to access information quickly have caused the demand for companies that provide agile and efficient Internet service to increase, causing uncertainty in these companies for being better than the competition and retaining the consumer. The methodological development was carried out through a descriptive investigation with a quantitative approach. Four hundred two data were collected in the Province of Azuay. For the analysis of results, simple and compound linear regressions were carried out, which allowed us to analyze the influence on the intention to change providers. The findings show that the company’s risk perception positively affects consumers when they want to change suppliers, while the perception of brand quality has no significance on their purchase intention; however, when they are evaluated together, their impact on purchase intention is positive. Keywords: Quality, company, purchase intention, perception, risk.

   La alta prevalencia de la enfermedad de Alzheimer supone un reto para los sistemas públicos. A pesar de los esfuerzos que se han llevado a cabo los últimos años estableciendo políticas públicas encaminadas a reforzar los recursos destinados al cuidado de estos pacientes, las familias siguen siendo el pilar básico de los cuidados en España. Este trabajo constituye una aproximación a la configuración del cuidado entre un grupo de personas cuidadoras de pacientes con enfermedad de Alzheimer en el área sanitaria de Santiago de Compostela. El objetivo fue hacer una fotografía de la interiorización del cuidado, su integración en la unidad familiar, afrontamiento y repercusiones. A tal fin se ha realizado un estudio cualitativo mediante entrevista en profundidad a 40 cuidadores principales de pacientes diagnosticados de enfermedad de Alzheimer con criterios NIA-AA en diferentes fases evolutivas. Los resultados ponen de relieve el gran compromiso con el cuidado —con una importante tradición familiar—, un afrontamiento flexible, una marcada interiorización del cuidado como un evento negativo y estresante, y una falta de reconocimiento y apoyo social.