The teacher Elena Villamarín Fernández (Drawing area), with the collaboration of the Professor Antonio Vigo Pérez (Sculpture Area), coordinates this Service Learning Project de the URJC designed in 2024, “Art for reintegration”, at the service of the community, directed in this case to the sector of the young people in prisonThe project aims to ensure that the Fine Arts students get experience at the social service en parallel with the Academic experience.

The project has as basis la Collaboration signed between the Faculty of Arts and Humanities and the Madrid VI Penitentiary Center in Aranjuez, agreement in which they have involved closely the educator Jesús Figueroa, the Treatment Sub-directorate and the Management of said penitentiary center.

The activity consisted of carrying out mural paintings in university spaces by the students of the subject “Design and Projective Workshop” (taught by Professor Villamarín) in Collaboration with young people in prison. As purpose main has been attempted Bringing young people in prison closer to social reintegration through art, for which they have been addressed as theme of the murals the values ​​of solidarity, equality and integration.

On these topics, the Young people in prison have launched ideas that have been represented graphically by students, something that has meant for both parties a extraordinary human and social experience. The thirteen murals of which the exhibition consists have been painted on large cardboards, adopting a urban art aesthetics done with templates and stencil and anamorphosis techniques. Currently they can can be seen in the corridors on the ground floor of the building of the Old Pavia Barracks on the Aranjuez Campus (San Pascual Street s/n). Later, the works They will be transferred to the penitentiary center to the satisfaction of young people in prison.

The practice has been executed in four phases. First, the estudents have been trained in the subject on the Project values ​​and urban art techniques. In a second phase, the coordinator of the project has gone to the penitentiary center to inform young people in prison about the project and invite them to participate by collecting their ideas. After the urban artist Juan Montes has been invited to the university, where he has transmitted his experience to the students y council. Finally, the mural paintings have been executed and exhibited on campus.

This project represents the research aimed at benefiting both art and society, explore the attitudes focused on the integration across students university students and YOUNG in a prison context. It also facilitates the identification of conceptual evidence related to posts y visual metaphors expressed through art. The project is part of the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations Agenda 2023, specifically with the development in education and sustainable learning. From the experience acquired the project aims to go further through the diffusion, With the organization of different days and publication of the results obtained.