Las Meninas help with memory

The Madrid Health Center (CMS) in Usera is one of the municipal health promotion centers most involved in the Healthy People Strategy, which has been carried out in the city of Madrid since 2010. In the following period a collaboration between the Faculty of Fine Arts and the CMS emerged and the CMYK Project was developed and implemented.
Las Meninas initiative comprises a set of exercises which consist of showing the well-known painting of Las Meninas by Velázquez, and trying to make the group retain the general composition and everything they can say about painting. After a while they will show this same empty, deconstructed painting (without the characters appearing) and they encourage people to try to place where the characters were to reconstruct the painting. A set of pulleys is also designed to explain in the workshop the gears of synaptic neural connections.