The exhibition"Uni + UN = One. Universities for Sustainable Development" opened on Thursday 21 November and brings together more than 100 works by 70 authors from different countries such as Colombia, Argentina, Italy, Spain, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Peru and Chile. When I have the full list of participants I will add it here.
It is organised by the Vice-Rectorate for Social Responsibility and University Extension Policies (UAH) and is directed and produced by the Quevedo Institute of the Arts of Humour (IQH) of the General Foundation of the University of Alcalá (FGUA).
Photo: IQH
The aim is to raise awareness through graphic humour that this project concerns everyone and of the need to mobilise as soon as possible the material and human resources that can help in achieving the seventeen objectives set.
On 25 September 2015, world leaders adopted a set of ambitious global goals to eradicate poverty and hunger, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all as part of a new sustainable development agenda. Among the goals is even peace. Each goal has specific targets to be achieved in the next 15 years. That is nothing.
I don't want to sound pessimistic, so I will be satisfied if in three decades' time we have managed to cross at least a few items off the list and are still interested in the task.
The exhibition can be visited in the Patio Santo Tomás de Villanueva (Rectorate of the University of Alcalá) and also walking around Alcalá de Henares in Calle Mayor and Calle Libreros until 9 February 2020. It will then travel to other universities throughout Spain.
From the street university
All photos courtesy of colleague Malagon.
A square of yours truly on a balcony in the Calle Mayor.
Another by Máximo San Juan (1933 - 2014) in the same street.
One by Vergara on another by Manel Fontdevila
On the left Malagón, on the right Gallego & Rey
And another from Malagón
This one is by Juan Carlos Contreras.
And more photos can be found here, here, here, here and here.
