Actos de disenso como urbanismo democratizador: El espacio político en Santiago de Chile

This article aims to advance in the theorization of the dissensual urbanism. The representative democracy is at the stake and people choose the street and the protest to demand changes. This phenomenon is increasing and the city has become an amplifier of people`s unrest. The use of urban spaces for contesting the democracy built upon consensus, and exposes the emergence of an urbanism that breaks the traditional approach of production of spaces, stripping these processes from the real estate market and claiming for new forms of urbanization. Based on evidence obtained by a fieldwork in Santiago de Chile, this article exposes the potentiality of a dissensual urbanism in order to democratize democracy. Given the exponential increase of the number of people marching to express their political posture, the street has stressed its function as political tool. On the other hand, the reduction of participation in traditional democratic instruments (like voting or trusting in representatives) exposes how this mode of consensual democracy is at the stake. Thus, new theories of urbanism are required for informing the imminent strengthening of dissensual urban spaces.