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The proposal
Des dels blocs
is proposed as a process of collective creation of stories, representations, and knowledge about a specific territory of L’Hospitalet: the blocks of La Florida; and in turn, the creation of situations and spaces for meeting and dialogue between the diverse groups that inhabit it.
Initially, we propose the use of graphic and sound tools (screen printing, radio, or soundscape) to collectively construct these stories, knowledge, and meeting spaces; although the process remains completely open to the proposals and contributions of those who collaborate in it.
Since the beginning of 2016, we have contacted several groups of people who attend various spaces of the Centre Municipal Ana Díaz Rico: the group of women who attend the crafts workshop, the young people who attend the Espai Jove (divided into two groups of 12 to 15 and 16 to 20 years old), the people who attend flamenco, computer, Catalan literacy classes, the Cinema al barri group, or the young women who attend the school reinforcement space taught by the Fundació Pere Closa, aimed at the Roma population of the blocks.
The screen printing workshop or the radio itself function as non-segregated meeting spaces in which to share and rethink the most widespread discourses and representations about the blocks of La Florida, also starting from the neighborhood’s own memory and the life stories of its inhabitants. From these meeting spaces, we want to open the debate to new agents, taking public space as a place for unexpected encounters.
The Context
The blocks of La Florida were built in 1955 by the Obra Sindical del Hogar of the Franco regime, which baptized the neighborhood with the name of Onésimo Redondo. 20 blocks with 816 apartments of 40 m2 in which part of the families of Somorrostro and people who came to Barcelona from various points of the peninsula were housed. Like many of the housing estates built on the urban peripheries during the Francoist