Andrea Pérez Fernández, professor in the Bachelor's Degree in Design, has been awarded the Nativitat Yarza Feminist Studies Scholarship 2025, together with Rocío Thovar Chacón, for the project “The Fragile Memory of Female Working-Class Activism: The Fight for Public Transport in Santa Coloma.”
The research recovers a symbolic episode of neighborhood struggle led by women from Can Franquesa and Les Oliveres, who in the 1970s symbolically hijacked a bus to demand public transport in their neighborhoods. The project aims to highlight the central —and often invisible— role of women in social mobilizations in urban peripheries.
With this study, the authors seek to contribute to the reconstruction of collective memory from a feminist perspective, reclaiming female working-class activism as a fundamental part of contemporary social history.
Ángel Luis Abadia / Fons Grama. Museu Torre Balldovina