"Si 8 Do" Seville Poop Project Favorite 

Practitioner: 

Date: 

Jan 1 2000

Location: 

Seville Spain

In the Si 8 Do project, Seville activists convened in a neglected barrio during the Euromediterranean Conference on Sustainable Cities, which was taking place in Seville. To protest the city's housing policies—selling prime public land to wealthy developers, and neglecting to build affordable housing or public green space—the group planted flags in dog poop all over the neighborhood that read "Se 8 Do," representing the phrase "Thou has abandoned me." They also modeled plastic helmets next to decrepit, falling walls that the city had neglected to take care of. The campaign continued to grow, and city signs promising affordable housing (which the city did not follow through on), were vandalized. Posters were drawn up to emphasize the invisibility of "unregistered" people in the face of gentrification. All of these things became tools that people have continued to use to fight eviction.

NB: Estimated date of action is uncertain.

External sources: 

https://sindominio.net/fiambrera/sevillinglis.html
Posted by Molly on Nov 11 2019

Staff rating: 

5
We believe that the city actually did clean up the poop. Certainly some attention was drawn to the issue.

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Effectiveness

How does this project help?

Activates (people)Energizes and organizes people into action. Can include emotion work
Amplifies (issue or campaign)Brings public and political attention to an issue or campaign.  Can include prefigurative action, making the invisible visible.

Timeframe For change

This project seems to be part of a campaign with a clear short-term goal. Short-term goals tend to be things like: create or repeal a law; get a President impeached; make the city administration repair a sidewalk. A campaign with a short-term goal needs a clear theory of change, complete with targets that can be cajoled or pressured into effecting the goal.
Get city to actually clean up the poop citywide, not just in the wealthy neighborhoods.
This project seems to be part of a campaign with a clear long-term goal. Long-term goals tend to be things like: end racism; end homophobia; make the sun stand still in the sky. A campaign with a long-term goal also needs to have some kind of theory of change.
Change city policies regarding housing and maintenance, to shift towards using land for public good, affordable housing, and green space. To get the the city to allocate resources more equitably, and with more regard for public space.