Premis BDigital a la Innovació 2012 — a finalist for digital innovation
In the video, the presentation of Murs Lliures as the winning project at the 2012 BDigital Digital Innovation Awards, in the innovative ideas and pilot projects category. It explains how the platform works —register, choose a wall, download the permit, paint and upload the photo— and the plan to extend it to other cities and countries.
Video transcript (translated from Catalan)1 min 36 s
Murs Lliures is a project by the association Rebobinart that sets out to manage public spaces for artistic intervention. The idea is to channel urban art in order to encourage public participation and get livelier neighbourhoods.
Urban art is being valued more and more all over the world. In Barcelona we have extraordinary urban artists we don't want to lose. We are working with Barcelona City Council to obtain spaces like these in every district so we can carry out our interventions there.
We have a web platform where anyone who wants to paint can register: they pick a city, a place within that city or a district, and the wall comes up. From that wall they download a permit so they can go and paint. Once the work is finished, they take a photograph and upload it to the website. That way, as well as being a space-management platform, we also get a gallery where artists can show the work they have done.
Right now we only have spaces in the city of Barcelona. We are working to be able to reach other cities and other countries soon, so that everyone can enjoy this initiative. Urban art is ephemeral, but with projects like ours we can make it eternal.
Video transcript, edited for reading: repetitions and verbal fillers have been removed, the text has been punctuated and speakers are identified.
Barcelona
31.5.2012
In May 2012, Persianes Lliures was a finalist in the 10th BDigital Digital Innovation Awards, in the category for innovative ideas and R&D pilot projects. The photo shows the stage with the finalists and their certificates in front of the sponsors’ logos.
The project proposed using new technologies and apps to speed up painting permits, give urban artists visibility and bring their work closer to the public. It was the seed of what, years later, would become Wallspot.
