The young people from the urban outskirts have been represented by the media through the imagery of apathy, incivility and delinquency. Preconceived ideasabout the territories in which these young people live negatively influence their future prospects and their relationship with the city, having the effect of segregating them, particularly in the case of people of African descent. Nevertheless, the growing importance of arts and cultural production of that youth is providing new visibility capable of subverting stereotypes and affirming positive identities about themselves and their territories. The power of these creative practices was noted by the state agencies, which started to mobilize them for the purpose of social inclusion in the context of promoting a new generation of more participatory public policies. In a scenario of economic crisis, social exclusion and lack of opportunities for youth emancipation, aggravated by the COVID-19 pandemic, it is imperative to understand how creativity is mobilized by young people from segregated territories, as well as what their influence is on the redefinition of urban policies targeting them. PERICREATIVITY is a project that aims to examine the creativity of young people in the segregated territories of the two largest Portuguese cities, Lisbon and Porto,in which their artistic expressions are as much a means of making sense to their lives and creating alternative professional paths as a resource for social inclusion.We propose a study of the creativity and arts of young people from underprivileged territories as two dynamic elements that feed each other and should be framedin a new episteme, influencing subjectivities and political strategies. The creative dynamics linked to the artistic expression of ‘peripheral’ young people are increasingly appropriate by public policies stimulating local development, citizen participation and social inclusion. This is the case of the ‘Programa Escolhas’(Choices Programme) and a set...