After the Age of Wonderland fellowship in The Netherlands in 2016, which marked my first time collaborating directly with designers and artists, I knew I had to approach my local activism work through equally radical collaborative practices. I wanted to get to know more people living on the Sombrero hill, so an art festival could be a good option to meet them. I reached out to La Loica, a very well-known artist from Melipilla and asked her if she wanted to co-organise a street art festival in one of the neighbourhoods at the footsteps of the hill. That neighbourhood had a very long wall, adjacent to the cemetery. It was the perfect canvas for artists and a good chance to make the space look prettier and more interesting. She said yes, and so went and asked the president of the local committee if we could do that. She also said yes, and so Pillán del Cerro was born.