Articula’t 2019
Articula’t is a project of ART, EDUCATION and SOCIAL INTERVENTION, which allows us to articulate artistic learning processes and the realization of a communitary mural with the educational centers. Reflection and dialogue processes, continuous evaluation of the learning process and the impact of the mural on the community are also incorporated.
In 2019 we have collaborated with: Josep Janés School, Lola Anglada School, Jesuitas Bellvitge – Juan XXIII Study Center, Mª Aurelia Capmany Institute, EASD Josep Serra y Abeja, Ernest Lluch School and Ferran Sunyer School.
The objective of this initiative is to create a motor group in collaboration with each participating educational center, which is responsible for painting the mural accompanied by an artist. A group made up of young people who can reflect on the content of the mural, learn graffiti and painting techniques, and paint a mural on a day open to the participation of the entire community.
Objectives and considerations
– Give continuity to the project of the years 2015-2018 in the city of L’Hospitalet de Llobregat.
– Establish new alliances and work more complex subjects with the recipients to favor deeper reflections.
– Provide participants with the appropriate tools to reflect on the subject, design and execute a proposal appropriate to their real possibilities of execution.
– Find the balance between a community intervention carried out by the students and a final result with the quality that a professional artist would propose.
– Generate interest among the participants in the community and the mural arts.
Reflect and design
In all Articula’t projects the methodology we propose is the participation and open design with the entire educational center or the designated motor group. With this premise we dedicate different sessions at the beginning of the project to identify the topic on which we will reflect and present the ideas of how to represent it.
These ideas and design sessions are carried out by the reference artist of the intervention and the educational team of the foundation.
It is important within the project that in this phase we achieve a satisfactory degree of reflection on the premise of the project and we can identify what is the message that we would like to transmit to the other students of the center and to anyone who sees the work. Even so, it is important to be aware of the real possibilities we have when designing the final proposal.
Painting the mural
The second phase is always of execution of the design that we have carried out among all. These sessions can last for different days or weeks depending on the availability of the students at the center and if the activity has been integrated as part of a specific subject or if we have more flexibility.
At all times the artist and the educational team accompany the students throughout the process.
We understand that in these interventions the degree of satisfaction with the final result by the participant is important to empower them with the space and the work carried out, but also the quality of the training they have received to carry out the intervention. The feeling of collective belonging generated by the project on the works is also important, since there is not a single author of the intervention.
Accions destacades
50º aniversari Jesuïtes Bellvitge – Centre d’Estudis Joan XXIII
At the Joan XXIII Studies Center in the Bellvitge neighborhood in L’Hospitalet de Llobregat we carried out an artistic residency project. The center celebrated 50 years of history in 2015 and has always been closely linked to the neighborhood. It is a center with lines that go from preschool to training cycles with more than 1,000 students and a wide and committed educational community.
For this reason, the essence of the center and its educational project had to be well identified, working with students, teachers and families to co-design the intervention. Co-design sessions were held for two weeks throughout the school day with the different classes and teachers at the center.
The artist chosen to carry out the project was Verònica Werkmeister, responsible for the Vitoria-Gasteiz Muralistic Itinerary project and national leader in community muralism. For two more weeks he carried out the execution of the mural together with all the students of the center who began to collaborate in the realization of the work. As part of the design we built structures that were located outside the wall to expand the design space and break the sense of horizontality of the wall. The theme finally chosen was with the educational line of the center and also some historical moments and current students.
Final result
Lola Anglada School
The Lola Anglada School is located in the Can Serra neighborhood of L’Hospitalet de Llobregat in the north of the city. It is a neighborhood that we know well from carrying out previous projects and with which we have a special relationship. In this case, the school wanted to carry out a learning and service project complementary to its visual and plastic subject so that the entire center could participate to intervene in the courtyard.
The center works within this subject 3 renowned historical or current artists and we wanted to complement the proposal by working with each class one of the 3 artists in depth.
The process lasted 3 weeks in which we first worked in depth the chosen artist to internalize and imitate its main features and thus be able to make a tribute work. Each class designed and made their own mural on the previously worked design and was integrated into the set. Once the patio was finished, it was transformed into a compilation of works inspired by artists such as Kandinski, Frida Kahlo, Dalí or Enjoyed by the students of the center.
The final result and experience were very satisfactory for the entire educational community of the center and for the Foundation team.
