ABSTRACT
Collective mural painted by local graffiti artists in the squatted building of La Carboneria. One of those encounters was with the squatter collective of La Carboneria which had its headquarters in a squatted building in the centre of the city. This chapter describes the creation of a graffiti mural so as to explore further the meanings of making public space in relation to the politics of graffiti murals in Barcelona city. It explains how the actions of a collective of squatters and graffiti artists had transformed the sensory order of public space that surrounded the building. The chapter argues that public space is shaped by a dominant sensory order that conditions its transformation and the way in which people can participate in it. It also argues that mural encloses multiple traces shaped not only by ways of making graffiti images but also by politics, financial and economic relations in the city.
