Collaborative Muralism

Facilitation and collective guidance

Facilitated mural process with participants painting a wall at CESFAM Villa Los Quillayes
Pinta Tu Mural Los Quillayes, CESFAM Villa Los Quillayes, 2018. Web-optimized record from the FACI archive.

FACI gathers community mural processes in which my main role is to facilitate, guide, accompany, structure, or mediate collective production. In these cases, the work is not understood only as a final image: methodology, listening, visual decision-making, and the participation of groups, communities, or institutions are also central.

The series has remained open since 2012. Each main activity corresponds to a specific case of facilitation or guidance within collaborative or community muralism.

Series Record

Type
Open series
Year
2012 onward
Technique
Community muralism, group facilitation, graphic mediation, and methodological accompaniment.
Context
Youth groups, local communities, schools, neighborhood organizations, community programs, and participatory commissions.

Milestones

2025 ยท Villa Chacon Zamora ยท La Florida ยท Voces de Chile

Villa Chacon Zamora

Villa Chacon Zamora is one of the main interventions from the second stage of Voces de Chile - Community Murals. The folder preserves the previous state of the site, sketches, mediation deliverables, work sessions, and final records after the inauguration.

Credits: Esteban Garnica / Voces de Chile / Villa Chacon Zamora community.

2025 ยท Escuela Hans Asperger ยท La Florida ยท Voces de Chile

Escuela Hans Asperger

Escuela Hans Asperger is one of the main interventions from the first stage of Voces de Chile - Community Murals. The folder preserves the previous state of the site, sketch development, materials delivered to the community, and a work record organized by sessions.

Credits: Esteban Garnica / Voces de Chile / educational community.

2025 ยท First stage of Voces de Chile ยท La Florida

Miguitas Ternura

Miguitas Ternura is one of the main interventions from the first stage of Voces de Chile - Community Murals. The folder preserves sketch materials, deliverables for the intervention context, and a work record organized by sessions.

Credits: Esteban Garnica / Voces de Chile / Miguitas Ternura community.

2024 ยท Colegio Maria Pinto ยท Maria Pinto ยท FIBRA / MINEDUC

Colegio Maria Pinto Muralism

A collaborative muralism workshop carried out in 2024 at Colegio Maria Pinto, in the commune of Maria Pinto, within the Program for Strengthening the Arts in Schools. Commissioned by FIBRA and MINEDUC, the process worked through listening, sketch development, and collaborative mural production with the 3rd and 4th year high-school art elective.

Credits: Esteban Garnica / FIBRA / MINEDUC / Colegio Maria Pinto.

2024 ยท Miguitas de Ternura Kindergarten, Los Quillayes ยท La Florida

Mural Los Quillayes

This community mural was made outside Miguitas de Ternura Kindergarten in Los Quillayes. The project was developed with the local community and children from the kindergarten to improve the surroundings, strengthen collective participation, and activate a space affected by waste and unwanted uses.

Credits: Esteban Garnica / Miguitas de Ternura Kindergarten / Cultural Corporation of La Florida.

2021 ยท Av. Vicuna Mackenna west and Santa Caterina ยท La Florida

Santa Caterina Comunidad

A guided community mural made with neighbors from Villa Santa Caterina, in coordination with the Cultural Corporation of La Florida. The action belongs to a neighborhood effort to beautify the area through gardens, green spaces, and collective work on the shared environment.

Credits: Esteban Garnica / Villa Santa Caterina neighbors / Cultural Corporation of La Florida.

2018 ยท CESFAM Villa Los Quillayes ยท La Florida

Pinta Tu Mural Los Quillayes

A mural facilitated for the Cultural Corporation of La Florida at CESFAM Villa Los Quillayes. The intervention focused on the children's area of the medical center and was made with patients and nurses as a community experience of care, atmosphere, and shared visual work.

Credits: Esteban Garnica / CESFAM Villa Los Quillayes / Cultural Corporation of La Florida.

2016 ยท Plaza Las Lluvias, Villa Ensenada ยท La Florida

Evoluciona Graff

A collaborative graffiti work made with the students Manuel and Tomas at Plaza Las Lluvias, Villa Ensenada. The image worked almost like a mural meme: two figures fighting with the word Evoluciona, building a message around nonviolence.

Credits: Esteban Garnica / Manuel and Tomas / AMK Crew.

2015 ยท Villa Los Copihues ยท La Florida

Facilitation AMK La Florida Joven

A mural facilitation process carried out with AMK Crew for the youth batucada group Kurin Batu in Villa Los Copihues. Mediated by La Florida Joven, the process sought to build a mural image that gave identity to the group, its headquarters, and its territory.

Credits: Esteban Garnica / AMK Crew / La Florida Joven / Kurin Batu.

2014 ยท Av. Walker Martinez and Jardin Alto ยท La Florida

AMK La Florida Joven Workshop

An open brushwork session made for La Florida Joven. Painting panels were installed so people could enjoy painting, approach mural practice, and activate a collective pictorial gesture in public space.

Credits: Esteban Garnica / AMK Crew / La Florida Joven.

2014 ยท Rayen and Jeronimo de Alderete ยท La Florida

AMKids

A community mural experience developed with AMK Crew and preschool children, decorating a street in La Florida. The action combined accompaniment, collective production, and situated learning.

Credits: Esteban Garnica / AMK Crew / participating children.

2012 ยท Plaza Las Lluvias, Villa Ensenada ยท La Florida

AMK Libertad de Expresion

A guidance process with young participants around a mural made at Plaza Las Lluvias, Villa Ensenada, La Florida. The activity worked as an introduction to muralism and graffiti, and as an inclusive day of learning, participation, and collective production with AMK Crew.

Credits: Esteban Garnica / AMK Crew / young participants.

FACI differs from Festivals because the organizing criterion is not the event frame, but the role of guidance and facilitation. It also differs from Open-air Museums because it is not organized only by fixed locality or by fully closed authorial works, but by shared processes where methodological direction is central.