Las voces de la periferia: Arquitectura y acción colectiva; Un ejemplo de caso

Abstract

During the most difficult moments of the Covid-19 pandemic various comparisons were drawn between the current crisis and the financial disaster in 2008. In that year, a group of fine arts students developed a participative and activist project in which architecture, understood as a possibility to inhabit and look after, was the emancipatory and enabling impulse for a new type of political and social intervention which originated from the necessity to participate in discussions that consequently arouse from a time of political turmoil. Ever since, LaFábrika detodalavida, the project stemming from the inhabitation and rehabilitation of a derelict cemetery in Los Santos de Maimona (Badajoz), maintains a relation between architecture and social activation through the development of cultural practises of set political connotations. In this retrospective view we try to narrow down the requirements of these kind of projects and their difficulties with regard to the initiation of events and the upkeep of their social and professional relations.