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| For weeks, illustrated micro stories have been projected on the walls of Vistabella | Colored fabrics, paper bow ties, hearts, messages in defense of public health and pennants have adorned many of the terraces of the city of Murcia for days at the initiative of 'Dressing the balconies', a project launched by the group of Research 'The neighborhood as a stage for critical pedagogies and community art', from the University of Murcia. According to Eva Santos, a professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts and a member of the group, it is "an invitation to community participation to decorate those private spaces that are allowing us social contact during confinement." The researcher, promoter of the initiative, together with Eva Mesas, a teacher and student Ana Pérez, points out that "the balconies take center stage at eight o'clock in our demonstration of thanks to the people who do the essential tasks these days.
But they and they move every morning, every afternoon or night through empty streets, emptied by the state of emergency.
" "Dressing the balconies invites to put a note of color in their trajectories, it proposes us to create, with the resources that we have, and decorate our facades, to make them a great canvas of color.
It is a way of clothing those who care for us, but also to express ourselves ", he added. Project micro stories to "feel closer together" That same objective, to create community, is what led this same research group, in collaboration with the Neighborhood Association of Vistabella and the AMPA of the neighborhood school, in late March to invite neighbors to write and share stories related to the coronavirus crisis. The texts received were collaboratively illustrated and projected from the windows every day at eight in the afternoon by those who decided to join the project.
The idea was, as researchers Ignacio López and María Abellán describe, "to project something that, although in the distance, would make us be a little closer together." Texts and illustrations can now be visited at https://microrrelatoscoronavirus.wordpress.com/ Both initiatives are part of the R + D + i project 'The neighborhood as a stage for critical pedagogies and collaborative art' of the research group 'The neighborhood as a stage for critical pedagogies and community art' of the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University de Murcia, whose purpose is to manage and propose artistic actions that promote social relations in neighborhoods or communities.
Source: Universidad de Murcia
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