{"id":25034,"date":"2026-04-20T00:52:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T22:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.luzinterruptus.com\/?p=25034"},"modified":"2026-04-20T01:23:32","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T23:23:32","slug":"signage-of-care-senaletica-de-los-cuidados","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.luzinterruptus.com\/?p=25034","title":{"rendered":"Signage of Care \/ Se\u00f1aletica de los cuidados"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Some years ago we were invited to imagine proposals that could help women feel safer in the city through small interventions in those residual spaces where a sense of insecurity often appears: poorly lit streets, forgotten corners, or places that lie outside the usual routes. At the time, we were often asked to respond to this kind of artistic challenge. Now it feels as if an eternity has passed since then.<\/p>\n

From that reflection emerged the idea of \u00abSignage of Care\u00bb<\/em><\/strong>, a proposal that seeks to use ordinary elements of urban signalling to introduce brief messages of support for women into the city.<\/p>\n

The question was simple: how can one act in these places without large infrastructures, through minimal gestures capable of activating the space and making it visible?<\/p>\n

We began to think about a very common element of the urban landscape: variable message traffic panels, those mobile devices that normally announce road works, detours or warnings in public space. We were interested in reversing their usual function so that, instead of warning of danger, they could transmit messages of support directed to women.<\/p>\n

We imagined a mobile system made up of road-sign trailers equipped with programmable luminous panels, able to be temporarily placed in different points of the city and display short messages.<\/p>\n

We have always thought that these messages could emerge from conversations and workshops with women from the city itself, where they would point out the places they avoid or cross with unease and decide which words they would like to encounter there. The limited space of the panel itself would force those ideas to be condensed into very short messages, almost like signals.<\/p>\n

This is a proposal we have never actually realised, but one that remains very close to us. Perhaps because we ourselves are women and know well the feeling that sometimes appears when walking alone through the city. Imagining this piece inevitably places us within that experience: we think about what it might mean to encounter, in the middle of an inhospitable place, an unexpected signal of care.<\/p>\n

The original idea proposes placing words and short phrases chosen by women in those places of the city that many of them perceive as unsafe. Each trailer would display one of these brief messages, functioning as a luminous sign of support in specific points of the urban space.<\/p>\n

However, in contexts such as festivals or short-duration events, where interventions must be perceived immediately, it may be more appropriate to condense these ideas into a single installation that can be seen all at once.<\/p>\n

In those cases the devices could gather in one place, forming a large collective piece: a temporary architecture of words and phrases emerging from the experiences of other women. Seen together, those voices gain another scale, composing a group of supportive messages that also works as a call for attention to the way we inhabit the city.<\/p>\n

Another possibility would be to deploy the trailers along a street or across a square, composing new messages connected to one another. In this configuration each panel would show a single letter, so the complete sentence would only reveal itself while walking through the space. The intervention could therefore extend along an entire urban route, amplifying the message and turning each device into a component of a large-scale phrase.<\/p>\n

From a technical point of view, the system is deliberately simple. Messages are easily programmed from a computer, which allows texts to be modified or the installation reorganised when the trailers change position.<\/p>\n

The devices we imagine using do not need to be manufactured specifically for the artwork. They are the same signalling trailers commonly used in road works and traffic diversions and can be easily rented in many cities. This condition interests us especially: working with existing elements designed for the street and giving them a different use.<\/p>\n

Equipped with low-consumption LED panels and rechargeable batteries \u2014 often assisted by small solar panels \u2014 they allow quick, mobile and reusable installations.<\/p>\n

As in many of our projects, we are interested in working with simple solutions, accessible materials and reusable structures, transforming ordinary urban tools into devices capable of generating conversation, presence and care.<\/p>\n

We would very much like to realise this proposal and take advantage of the amplification that large public events can offer to address issues that concern us, such as the mobility of women in urban environments often designed without taking into account the ways women inhabit the city and their specific needs. Safety, we believe, does not necessarily depend on adding more light, but on rethinking spaces through other logics of attention, presence and care.<\/p>\n

We also believe that the context of light festivals, which take place at night in public space, could offer a particularly appropriate framework for deploying these luminous messages.<\/p>\n

Sisters, see you in the streets, at any hour and in the circumstances we choose \u2014 safe and at ease. It may sound obvious, but in these times even the most obvious things still need to be reclaimed.<\/p>\n

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Hace algunos a\u00f1os, nos invitaron a imaginar propuestas que pudieran ayudar a que las mujeres se sintieran m\u00e1s seguras en la ciudad mediante peque\u00f1as intervenciones en esos espacios residuales donde suele aparecer la sensaci\u00f3n de inseguridad: calles mal iluminadas, rincones olvidados o lugares que quedan fuera de los recorridos habituales. En aquel momento nos planteaban a menudo este tipo de retos art\u00edsticos, parece que haya pasado una eternidad desde entonces.<\/span><\/p>\n

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De esa reflexi\u00f3n surgio la idea de \u00abSe\u00f1al\u00e9tica de los cuidados\u00bb<\/strong>, una propuesta que plantea utilizar elementos habituales de se\u00f1alizaci\u00f3n urbana para introducir en la ciudad mensajes breves de apoyo dirigidos a las mujeres.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

La pregunta era sencilla: \u00bfc\u00f3mo actuar en esos puntos sin grandes infraestructuras, con gestos m\u00ednimos capaces de activar el lugar y hacerlo visible?<\/p>\n

A partir de ah\u00ed empezamos a pensar en un elemento muy com\u00fan del paisaje urbano: los paneles electr\u00f3nicos de se\u00f1alizaci\u00f3n variable, esos dispositivos m\u00f3viles que normalmente anuncian obras, desv\u00edos o advertencias en la v\u00eda p\u00fablica. Nos interesaba invertir su funci\u00f3n habitual para que, en lugar de advertir de un peligro, pudieran transmitir mensajes de apoyo dirigidos a las mujeres.<\/p>\n

Imaginamos entonces un sistema m\u00f3vil formado por carritos de se\u00f1alizaci\u00f3n equipados con paneles luminosos programables, capaces de situarse temporalmente en distintos puntos del espacio urbano y emitir mensajes breves.<\/p>\n

Siempre hemos pensado que esos mensajes podr\u00edan surgir de conversaciones y talleres con mujeres de la propia ciudad, donde ellas mismas se\u00f1alar\u00edan los lugares que evitan o atraviesan con inquietud y decidir\u00edan qu\u00e9 palabras les gustar\u00eda encontrar all\u00ed. El propio formato del panel \u2014con un espacio muy limitado\u2014 obligar\u00eda a condensar esas ideas en mensajes muy breves, casi como se\u00f1ales.<\/p>\n

Esta es una propuesta que nunca hemos llegado a materializar, pero que seguimos sintiendo cercana. Quiz\u00e1 porque nosotras mismas somos mujeres y conocemos bien esa sensaci\u00f3n que aparece a veces al caminar solas por la ciudad. Al imaginar esta pieza inevitablemente nos situamos en esa experiencia: pensamos en lo que podr\u00eda significar encontrar, en medio de un lugar inh\u00f3spito, una se\u00f1al inesperada de cuidado.<\/p>\n

La idea original parte de situar palabras y peque\u00f1as frases elegidas por mujeres en aquellos lugares de la ciudad que muchas de ellas perciben como inseguros. Cada carrito mostrar\u00eda uno de esos mensajes breves, funcionando como una se\u00f1al luminosa de apoyo en puntos concretos del espacio urbano.<\/p>\n

Sin embargo, en contextos como festivales o eventos de duraci\u00f3n limitada, donde las intervenciones deben percibirse de manera inmediata, puede resultar m\u00e1s adecuado condensar esas ideas en una \u00fanica instalaci\u00f3n visible de una sola vez.<\/p>\n

En estos casos, los dispositivos podr\u00edan reunirse en un \u00fanico lugar, formando una gran pieza colectiva: una arquitectura temporal de palabras y frases surgidas de la experiencia de otras mujeres. Al verse juntas, esas voces adquirir\u00edan otra escala, componiendo un conjunto de mensajes solidarios que funciona tambi\u00e9n como una llamada de atenci\u00f3n sobre la forma en que habitamos la ciudad.<\/p>\n

Otra posibilidad ser\u00eda desplegar los carritos a lo largo de una calle o una plaza, componiendo nuevos mensajes relacionados entre s\u00ed. En esta configuraci\u00f3n, cada panel mostrar\u00eda una sola letra, de modo que la frase completa solo se revelar\u00eda al recorrer el espacio. La intervenci\u00f3n podr\u00eda as\u00ed extenderse a lo largo de una v\u00eda urbana, amplificando el mensaje y convirtiendo cada dispositivo en una pieza dentro de una frase de gran escala.<\/p>\n

Desde el punto de vista t\u00e9cnico, el sistema es deliberadamente sencillo. Los mensajes se programan f\u00e1cilmente desde un ordenador, lo que permite modificar los textos o reorganizar la intervenci\u00f3n cuando los carritos cambian de posici\u00f3n.<\/p>\n

Los dispositivos que imaginamos utilizar no necesitan fabricarse espec\u00edficamente para la obra. Son los mismos carritos de se\u00f1alizaci\u00f3n que se emplean habitualmente en obras y desv\u00edos de tr\u00e1fico y que pueden alquilarse f\u00e1cilmente en muchas ciudades. Esa condici\u00f3n nos interesa especialmente: trabajar con elementos existentes, dise\u00f1ados para la calle, y darles un uso distinto.<\/p>\n

Equipados con paneles LED de bajo consumo y bater\u00edas recargables \u2014a menudo asistidas por peque\u00f1os paneles solares\u2014, permiten instalaciones r\u00e1pidas, m\u00f3viles y reutilizables.<\/p>\n

Como ocurre en muchos de nuestros proyectos, nos interesa trabajar con soluciones simples, materiales accesibles y estructuras reutilizables, transformando herramientas ordinarias de la ciudad en dispositivos capaces de generar conversaci\u00f3n, presencia y cuidado.<\/p>\n

Nos gustar\u00eda poder materializar esta propuesta y aprovechar la capacidad de amplificaci\u00f3n que ofrecen los eventos p\u00fablicos multitudinarios para hablar de cuestiones que nos preocupan, como la movilidad de las mujeres en entornos urbanos muchas veces dise\u00f1ados sin tener en cuenta sus formas de habitar la ciudad ni sus necesidades. Pensamos adem\u00e1s que la seguridad no tiene por qu\u00e9 resolverse \u00fanicamente a\u00f1adiendo m\u00e1s iluminaci\u00f3n, sino repensando los espacios desde otras l\u00f3gicas de atenci\u00f3n, presencia y cuidado.<\/p>\n

Creemos adem\u00e1s que el contexto de festivales de luz, desarrollados de noche en el espacio p\u00fablico, podr\u00eda ofrecer un marco especialmente adecuado para desplegar estos mensajes luminosos.<\/p>\n

Amigas, nos vemos en las calles, a cualquier hora y en las circunstancias que elijamos, pero seguras y tranquilas. Parece algo obvio esto, pero en estos tiempo, incluso lo mas obvio necesita ser reclamado.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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