LES CORTS WOMEN PRISON FUTURE MEMORIAL. OPEN PROCESS

The moral and political repression carried out in Les Corts Women Prison (1936‐1955) has remained forgotten for decades by the whole society, especially by the public institutions responsible for the preservation of our collective memory. It has been civil society –based on previous research works‐, the protagonist of a long process of recovery of this forgotten and neglected memory due to political, territorial and gender reasons. The causes of this oblivion are the same that justify the need to remember. The memory recovery strategy is based on the conquest of diverse social media. Amongst them, there is the establishment in 2010 of a memorial site dedicated to the prison: presodelescorts.org. In addition, a participatory process is working on a transversal project for the development of a monument dedicated to the prison ́s inmates –as well as their daughters and sons‐ repressed in this institution, as an act of homage in the public space, the same territory where once was the Women’s Prison of Les Corts.