University-community relations: a zone of reconfiguration of public space

Abstract

This paper develops a first proposal to address the issue of university-community as an area of reconfiguration of the public, explaining first a theoretical position about the concepts: public space, community and university community, to advance then to the possible relationships between them. It points out the changes of the XXI century in relation to the reconfiguration of public space no longer exclusively linked to the state, but as a space of citizen and community participation, proposing the university a mode of working in its relations with the community, which places citizens and stakeholders in the idea of __the democratization of knowledge.