All this started a few weeks ago when the middle-sized Italian city of Bologna finally found its way to Barcelona. During the process of unifying the European education system it has been announced that the Autònoma is about to be privatized. Murmur went through the silent widths of Bellaterra. Since then university life got a bit stirred up around here. Graffitis appeared almost everywhere expressing that "Bolonya" is not very welcome and that a university can not be a money-making machinery.
Bit by bit the situation got worse and finally some students decided to take care of the circumstances by themselves. By now several faculties - including the Faculty of Communication Sciences where I'm supposed to attend two lectures - have been occupied since 10 days and lectures have been suspended for an uncertain period of time.
The university staff and all of the other people working here seem to take it very easy. There is no rush. No aggression. It is more of an adult and honest demonstration against what is about to be done and how this would effect lives. I think some of the lecturers are even participating the occupation. There are complimentary workshops all day long making clear what should be the most important goal of good education. It should be for free and open to everyone..
Empty halls:
Empty lecture rooms:
Empty.. aaahhm.. chairs:
1 comment:
da kommen erinnerungen an nizza hoch.. ich habe so ähnliche fotos mit nachhause genommen. ;) bin gespannt, wie lange die ocupación andauert und was sie erreicht. liebe grüße nach barcelona
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