The UAB to hold its First Heritage Week as a means of honouring its cultural and artistic legacy

For five days the Bellaterra campus will become a place to discover, reflect on and actively participate in seminaris, guided walks, and presentations of projects, workshops and exhibitions that allow exploring the UAB’ s heritage from an array of perspectives and disciplines.

The initiative focuses on heritage that often goes unnoticed, formed by urban sculptures, murals and works of art that give shape to the cultural landscape of the campus and strengthen its symbolic character. In this sense, the activities programmed for this week lend a cross-sectional and interdisciplinary look at the entirety of the University’s heritage.

One of the distinctive features of Heritage Week is the prominent role of students, who have designed most of the activities and will also assume the direction, conduction and public dissemination tasks. The event forms part of the teaching innovation project “Managing heritage from the classroom: a learning based on challenges applied to the artistic context of the UAB”, directed by Carles Sánchez Márquez, which introduces challenge-based learning methodologies in various subjects of the bachelor’s degrees in Art History and in Humanities. The project uses the artistic heritage of the campus as a direct resource for learning, analysis and intervention, and in this way strengthens the connection between teaching, research and the university environment.

The First Heritage Week of the UAB is the result of the coordinated work of several institutional agents and is launched by the Office of the Vice-Rector for Research and the Office of the Vice-Rector for Culture and Language Policy, alongside the Cultura en Viu Unit, the Artistic Heritage Campus of the Department of Art and Musicology, and the CORE in Cultural Heritage. This consolidates a shared commitment to the valorisation and management of university heritage.

 

Programmed activities:

Monday, 13 April:

• 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon Seminar "El patrimoni de la UAB: reptes i oportunitats" at the Frederic Udina conference hall of the Faculty of Arts & Humanities.
• 12:30 p.m. Inauguration of the exhibition "Memorias transfronterizas" at the Tarotdequinze Room of the Faculty of Arts & Humanities.

Tuesday, 14 April:

• 10:00 a.m. Presentation of the exhibition "La UAB a través del seu patrimoni" at the PassaARTdís Room of the Faculty of Arts & Humanities.
• 10:30 a.m. Presentation of the projects "Art al campus: murals en QR" and "Tradicions i celebracions a la UAB" at Aula 604 of the Faculty of Arts & Humanities.
• 11:30 a.m. "Tast de patrimoni de la UAB. Projectes dels estudiants d'Humanitats" at Aula 601 of the Faculty of Arts & Humanities.

Wednesday, 15 April:

• 10:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. scientific, botanical and heritage tour of the UAB monuments. Entrance hall of the Faculty of Arts & Humanities.
• 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Guided walk: "Espai B5-125". The walk will begin in Aula 601 of the Faculty of Arts & Humanities.

Thursday, 16 April:

• 10:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. "Diàleg entre el patrimoni material i immaterial de la UAB". The activity will begin in the entrance hall of the Faculty of Arts & Humanities.
• 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Guided walk around the monuments of the UAB. The walk will begin in the entrance hall of the Faculty of Arts & Humanities.
• 1:00 p.m. "Un vol per observar el patrimoni cultural de la UAB". Session offered by Esteve Dot, lecturer in Geography at the UAB and coordinator of the FUAB's Master's Degree in Tourism Management of Cultural Heritage. The session will begin at the Casa Miró (School for Doctoral Studies).

Friday, 17 April:

• 10:00 - 11:30 a.m. information session on the study of the state of conservation of a sculpture in Aula 604 of the Faculty of Arts & Humanities. The activity will be conducted by Esther Gual and Pere Rovira, from the Centre for the Restoration of Movable Cultural Heritage of Catalonia (CRBMC).
• 11:30 a.m. Presentation of the exhibition "Entre el riu Tigris i les muntanyes del Zagros. Deu anys de recerca de la UAB al Kurdistan iraquià". The session will be conducted by Professor Miguel Molist and Anna Maria Bach, coordinator of the Department of Prehistory of the UAB. The activity will take place at the Exhibition Hall of the Communication Library.

More information:

Seminar "El patrimoni de la UAB: reptes i oportunitats"

Activities of the First Heritage Week of the UAB