For the workshop, transparadiso took advantage of the international and local political attention and focused its activities on a location, the girls' home (Hogar) Maria Goretti on the cerro cordillera, which was far away from public interest in the world cultural heritage site. In this socio-urban context, an extended urban action seemed to be necessary – beyond (colonialist) debates on how to preserve the cultural heritage prevalent in the conference.
Together with the girls and students, transparadiso developed a video project that worked with changing roles: while the girls participated as scriptwriters, actresses, directors and camerawomen, the workshop leaders and the students helped out as assistants. The “tias” (“aunties”/ supervisors) in the home opened up the normally closed gates of the home, allowing the street to become a set for one day. This is how the film “lady arriba” was made. The video was edited over night by the students and presented to the public in the TAC (taller de acción comunitaria, a community centre close to the home) and in the final exhibition of the workshop.

A year later, the video was publicly screened at the Plaza la Matriz. This screening also served as the starting point for, and announcement of, the continuation of the project by the urban game, Deseo urbano. This was conceived as both research and intervention at the same time, based on a multi­layered reading of Valparaíso. The invitation to take part in the game at specific public locations was announced via posters and postcards, which at the same time represented playing cards, as well as through reports in the daily newspapers. Residents were invited to express their wishes beyond the conventional categories of urban planning on postcards. Game board, dice and playing cards were designed to help to present personal wishes and suggestions to the city by using postcards /playing cards. On a parallel level, the game was played with governmental institutions so that, in the end, suggestions could be collected from the diverse audiences involved in the making of the city.

These wishes were handed over to the MINVU (Ministry for Housing and Urbanism of the Fifth Region of Chile) during a public closing event in the city library. Architect Paz Undurraga, who supported transparadiso during the project, was then appointed by the MINVU as advisor for special projects.