Faculty of Fine Arts Madrid
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.
A room for everyone
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.
A room for everyone is a project for young people to stimulate them to go to the center's sexual and reproductive health program. The objective was to get young people to trust the professionals who are in the center and understand it as an educational, fun and helping meeting point. The ideal room is designed with young people between 15 and 17 years old. In collaboration with local associations, antique furniture is collected, which is then recycled and redesigned, from the teachings of Fine Arts students. These also offer the young people of the institute three furniture, coaching and photography workshops. The furniture is then installed in the health center in "a room for all". Friends and family are invited to get to know it (and to know the center and its services) and use it. The center and the young people gain a beautiful corner, which the young people consider their own and where they will feel at ease when they want to visit the center.
CMYK Project: Use of color and music in memory workshops
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.
In the CMYK Project participants in a memory workshop must choose the colors and drawings that suggest certain concepts (distance, joy, pain, health) and musicians play the right melody. The results are analyzed collectively and projected on the façade of the health center.