Blu paints giant mural in Casal de' Pazzi, Rome, with grassroots committee Mammut

In the Casal de' Pazzi neighborhood of Rome, near Rebibbia, a citizens' committee called Mammut organized a three-day festival from June 12 to 14, featuring sports tournaments for children, public assemblies, concerts, hip-hop workshops, free skateboarding, and street food. The committee successfully restored the soccer field on Via Briziarelli, making it usable for children. As part of the event, street artist Blu painted a large mural on the blind facade of a public housing building at lotto 24, working from a rope. The mural depicts a vegetal body, a colorful climbing plant of shrubs and roots gripping a concrete building, set against a deep blue sky with a lunar metropolis landscape. The project received no public funding; it was a spontaneous action coordinated by the neighborhood committee. The mural's style and colors echo a recent wall completed by Blu in Campobasso. The initiative aims at urban regeneration through collective action and the concept of the common good, countering neglect and political rhetoric.