Elaboration of artistic projects and social commitment in the university environment

Shifting the priority of the educational process to student learning represents, to a large extent, a break with the traditional model in university classrooms. Through these it is intended that the students, by assuming a special role in the involvement in the teaching-learning process, become the main subject of it. In this sense, in recent years, it has sought to design learning spaces and guide the process of acquiring knowledge and skills from a perspective in which the application of methodologies such as the preparation of projects have acquired a great role. In the university academic field and specifically in the field of knowledge related to Fine Arts, the elaboration of projects is a very widespread methodology. It allows students to develop the concepts learned, as well as initiative and creativity. At the same time, this methodological strategy brings them closer to other dynamics such as consulting sources, searching for information, writing texts, and research-related processes. Likewise, during the last years an increase in interest on the part of the students to develop projects of social involvement has been detected. The free-themed proposals have resulted in works whose contents address issues that highlight this trend. For example, numerous studies have been carried out that take as a starting point, among others, gender issues, environmental problems, migration and different Sustainable Development Goals. In this communication, allusion is made to the project dynamics carried out in a Bachelor of Fine Arts subject whose results have been materialized in the realization of different exhibition projects.