Plaça d'Idrissa Diallo

A recently renamed square which epitomised the city’s colonial legacy in a highly controversial way becomes the scene for one of the first exercises in reassigning symbolic meaning as part of the city’s de-colonisation policies. What would happen if we used a now-empty information panel as an opportunity to imprint the urban fabric with the mark left by different forms of domination and exploitation? A space between classes, the boundary between two Barcelona neighbourhoods, an accumulation of symbols and unused infrastructures.