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San Bernardo is one of the neighborhoods of Seville, which over the past decades has experienced rapid gentrification and from workers' district has turned into an expensive dormitory area in the center of this Andalusian city. The collective memory of generations of its inhabitants and the heritage of San Bernardo still await their recognition. A year and a half ago, an urban art artist from Poland, Piotr Pałkowski (his artistic name is Fruit of the lump) visited the city of Seville at our invitation and, inspired by the story of San Bernardo, painted a mural work inside the hangar of locomotives left from the old railway station of Cadiz. This work is based on the historical photo of the wagons flooded during the big flood Seville experienced in 1961. It is curious that later the hangar was completely walled up after the installation work of the new parking around this building, so now there is no way to access the building to see Piotr's work.

Our idea was to continue with this type of works based on the history of the neighborhood, putting them in several places, for example, installing them in the windows of the "Paterri" old ruined school, in the station's former cisterns and in other buildings of the neighborhood that are empty or without function (by the way, the locomotive hangar would be an ideal place for artistic performances and art/crafts workshops, since this land belongs, as we learned, to Consejería de Cultura - Junta de Andalucía). We need to request permission from the local authorities for such action, and we are looking for local collaborators to help us manage it with the authorities and continue with the project. We talk about this project in a recent interview for Canal Sur Radio last Saturday, 26.10 (you can hear it from the 40th minute of the "Andalucía near you" program, in Spanish). http://www.canalsur.es/radio/programas/andalucia-cerca-de-ti/detalle/418650.html?video=1494985&fbclid=IwAR1lAsF51qb4ELgdg0spB2fWuvf5o7jHTgAsseUoWrGXd7gMYMFz8dee8qQ

Replacement of traditional paving in city parks and squares (sand or gravel) with stone tiles has become a trend in the renovation of public outdoor spaces in recent years. As a result, squares and parks in different cities of Europe look very similar :) is it really necessary? And what economic factors (or other interests) are causing this? Here is an example from the renovation of Alameda central boulevard of Malaga ... And I wonder if the lawn will take root on such narrow pieces of ground, surrounded by stone? ..