Process

In November 2006, the association ACMe (Associació per la Cultura i la Memòria de Catalunya / Associtation for the Culture and Memory of Catalonia) launched a multimedia portal about Les Corts prison for women, in the form of a virtual “site of memory”.

In 2011 the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Barcelona promoted a series of initiatives towards the creation of a public space and the erection of a monument on the area that occupied the site of the former prison and encouraged an open debate, so that local organisations and social groups of the district could join in and provide their feedback.

On 20 November 2013 a process advocating the involvement of the community, was started to erect a monument to pay tribute to the women -and their sons and daughters- who suffered repression at the facility during Franco's Regime.

Right after the celebration of the 8th of March 2015 (International Women’s Day), and the commemoration of the 14th of April (anniversary of the proclamation of the 2nd Republic), the presentation of the exhibits at the temporary site of memory of Les Corts prison was re-arranged to give prominence to the voices of the women that lived there.

On the night of June 10, 2016, the five totems installed in 2014 were vandalised. The Platform Les Corts Women’s Prison Future Monument responded in an original way.

In March 2019, the definitive monument began to be built with the involvement of the Platform Les Corts Women’s Prison Future Monument.