Scientists and artists protect the Mar Menor

  In the year 2000, Clara Boj and Diego Díaz founded Lalalab.org, an artistic studio from where their projects involve the notion of public space transformed by new digital technologies, the hybrid city. “We have always incorporated the information technologies in our artistic projects, since they are the tools that shape the contemporary. The way we relate to each other, the way we study, how we work … In short, all aspects of our lives are crossed by technological devices and we continuously move between different states of connection between multiple networks ». To know more

Unimar sets its sights on the Mar Menor and serial killers

  The students that the Universidad Internacional del Mar hosts each year come mostly from outside the university institutions themselves. Specifically, 70 percent are not students of the University of Murcia or any other center of higher education in the region. This makes it much more important to disseminate the courses that each year complete the Unimar poster, as the results determine that although the institution offering training in summer is associated with the University of Murcia and the Polytechnic University of Cartagena, manages to attract thanks a powerful offer to many students interested in specialized and eminently practical training. To know more

The Mar Menor, one of the main protagonists of the formative laboratory of Much More May

The festival Much More May (M + M) dedicates this year a space to the Mar Menor, through the training laboratory that has two proposals for free activities with prior registration. These will be about the history of the salt lake and the different activities that take place in its environment. The Second Collaborative Mapping Workshop will be held on June 2 at the Youth Resource Center. The other of the workshops, Draw the capitaloceno, will visit different points of the Mar Menor on June 3. To know more

A free workshop will analyze the situation of the Mar Menor from the science and personal experiences of its inhabitants

  The Festival Mucho Más Mayo will analyze in a free workshop the situation of the Mar Menor from the science and personal experiences of its inhabitants. The Collaborative Mapping Workshop will be held this Saturday, June 2, from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., and prior registration is necessary. The workshop will be taught by the transdisciplinary working group of the University of Murcia integrated by researchers of the arts, communication and science and responsible for the project. Reset: Mar Menor Imaginary laboratory for a landscape in crisis, funded by the Carasso Foundation within its Arte Ciudadano 2017 program. To know more

Conference ‘After the End of the World: Art, Imagination and Temporary Scales in the Anthropocene’

The curator of the Contemporary Culture Center of Barcelona (also known by its acronym CCCB), writer and researcher, José Luis de Vicente, gave a lecture on Thursday, May 12, ‘After the End of the World: art, imagination and temporal scales in the Anthropocene. ‘In the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Murcia, he has made an approach to the analysis of cultural spaces and their relationship with fields as diverse as technology, social innovation, art and design. The quote ‘After the End of the World: art, imagination and temporal scales in the Anthropocene’ receives the name of his last exhibition. This project is focused, according to the specialist “on the planet of 2017, irreversibly transformed into the Anthropocene planet after two centuries of human intervention in natural systems. But it is also an exhibition about how we will reach the world of the second half of the 21st century, and about the responsibility of our society towards the generations that will be born and will grow in it».  

The Mar Menor, protagonist of the formative laboratory of Mucho Más Mayo

  The festival Much More May (M + M) dedicates this year a space to the Mar Menor, through the training laboratory that has two proposals for free activities with prior registration. These will be about the history of the salt lake and the different activities that take place in its environment. The Second Collaborative Mapping Workshop will be held on June 2 at the Youth Resource Center. In another of the workshops, Draw the capitalocene, will visit different points of the Mar Menor on June 3. To know more

Two activities of the Universidad del Mar will be held in Los Urrutias

  The International University of the Sea, organized by the University of Murcia and that welcomes the summer courses, has programmed for this year two of its activities in the Arbolar Residence, of Los Urrutias. To know more

Mucho Mas Mayo becomes Cartagena’s first ecofestival

  The Festival of Emerging Art Much More May returns to Cartagena in its 9th edition, which will be held from May 10 to June 3. Under the slogan ‘Interdependent, eco-dependent’, the festival is working to be the first reference eco-festival in the municipality. To know more

A multidisciplinary collective of the UMU designs maps to reveal the problems of the Mar Menor

The Museum of the University of Murcia hosts, from last Tuesday, April 17 and until tomorrow, Saturday, April 21, the I Jornada de Cartografía Crítica del Mar Menor. It is proposed as a space for collective encounter and for reflection to create a cartography of this landscape that reflects the personal experiences, memories, wishes and expectations of the participants. To know more

An art critic specialized in new media offers a talk at the University of Murcia

  José Luis de Vicente, curator and art critic specializing in new media, will offer a lecture entitled “Art, imagination and temporal scales in the Anthropocene” at the Faculty of Fine Arts, at 6:00 p.m. To know more