540 students from high school - Centro Integrado Cuatrovientos in Pamplona have participated this month in the project Art Recyclersat partnership with the Museo Universidad de Navarra and Manconeduca, the school program educational of the Mancomunidad de la Comarca de Pamplona. The initiative, which combines art and the environment, is inspired by the series Imágenes de chatarra and Imágenes de basura by the Brazilian artist Vik Muniz, which are currently on display at the Museum. The proposal is part of the 36th edition of the Cultural Week that Cuatrovientos celebrates every year.

Its goal is to raise awareness about the role that each person plays in caring for the environment and highlights the value of the bond that unites us to the Earth. To educate about this link, the center has focused on the possibilities that art presents in its interaction with social and environmental issues. 

It is also a novel initiative that is part of an international project of Strategic Partnerships for the exchange of Good Practices financed by Erasmus+. It consists of the training of student body of VET in competences related to sustainability and climate change based on the concept of calculation and reduction of the Carbon Footprint in the center educational and in the collaborating companies.

Specifically, the program consisted of an interpretation of the work Irma, The Bearer (2008), by the artist Vik Muniz, with the help of the atelierist Pastora Olaya. To create the works, employee caps, coffee and reused salt have been used, so that the waste has become artistic material, inspired by the process followed by the artist himself.

Students enrolled in training cycles of different educational levels, training basic professional, Degree medium and Degree superior corresponding to the professional families of computer science and communications, commerce and marketing and administration and management, which are taught at the Cuatrovientos Integrated Center, participated in the performance of this interpretation.