"We are not art critics, we have a lot to learn yet, but we have an idea that we would like to make known. The value of authorship". In this sentence by Carmen Bistuer Menéndez, 4th year student of Degree in Architecture at the University of Navarra, we can sum up the origin of The Random Week. An initiative of students of the School of Architecture of the University of Navarra aimed at students.

"The criticism of the work by its author is well known. It is not surprising to go to a museum and find a group walking through its corridors from sign to sign, looking at the author and leaving aside his work.

A Picasso is good because he is by Picasso or because he is good, could a five-year-old child do it like Pollock, where is the value of the work, in the work or in its authorship", these are the main questions raised by Carmen Bistuer Menéndez and Luis Gonzalo, Architecture students and organizers of Random Week, tired of seeing some works admired for their author and many others despised because of the anonymity of the person who produced them.

In this context, they propose the reflection of this contemporary phenomenon at school through photography. The Random Week aims to bring students closer to this concern, giving them the option to actively participate in the discussion through specific activities, such as conferences and workshops with photography professionals, a "plagiarism" contest, in which each student can submit a photograph that plagiarizes another famous one or a exhibition that mixes authors and known and anonymous works so that the viewer is the one to judge the quality of the works themselves, without the influence of the renown of its author.

The Random Week will be held from January 27 to February 2 at School of Architecture. Speakers include Julian Baronphotographer and visual activist, who will give a talk-workshop, in which he will present his latest projects ("Tauromaquia y Memorial"); and Paco Gómezwinner of awards such as the INJUVE 2001 photography award, PhotoEspaña 2002 revelation photographer or the award revelation to the NOPHOTO collective in PhotoEspaña 2006, who will offer a lecture under the degree scroll "Plagios" (Plagiarism).