Last Thursday 21st September the Office of the Vice-Principal for Territorial Projection and Participation de The Universitat opened in the town of Meliana the exhibition ‘La Universitat de València and its surroundings: l’Horta de València’ which will last until 5th October.
The itinerant exhibition ‘La Universitat de València and its surroundings: l’Horta de València’ is composed of 25 panels which go over several aspects of the landscape, territory, history, society, culture and heritage of the emblematic Horta de València. This set of panels have gone through more than twenty towns since 2013 (Paterna, Alboraia, Burjassot, Torrent or Catarroja, among others) and now it has arrived to Meliana. There it is shown next to an exhibit of plastic arts and a representation of the typical tool used at l’Horta. These 3 collections form the exhibition ‘Viu l’Horta’.
The exhibition was open this Thursday 21st September by the Vice-Principal for Territorial Projection and Participation, Jorge Hermosilla, and the major of Meliana, Josep Riera, accompanied by others members of the town council. Those who are interested can visit the work at the Local Institute for Culture (ICM) of Meliana until the 5th October.
Preparation of the exhibition
More than thirty experts have collaborated on the preparation of the showing, including teaching and research staff from different areas of the Universitat as well as other experts related to l’Horta region. The exhibition is multidisciplinary and it goes through aspects about l’Horta from the perspective of environmental education, biodiversity (flora, vegetation, fauna), cultural values (literature, art), human and physical geography, art history, archaeology and history.
Teachers from several departments of the Universitat have participated in the preparation of the exhibition: Department of Geography (Joan Romero, Carles Sanchis, Alejandro Pérez, Joan Carles Membrado, Josep Vicent Boira, Pilar Carmona and the ESTEPA Research Unit), Department of Prehistory and Archaeology (José Luis Jiménez), Department of Medieval History (Antoni Furó and Enric Guinot), Department of Economic Analysis (Salvador Calatayud), Department of Language Theory (Martí Domínguez), Department of Art History (Carmen Gracia i Adrià Bessó), Department of Microbiology and Ecology (Pablo Vera, Juan S. Monrós, Juan Rueda i Cristina Molina), Department of Botany (Gerardo Stübing, Pablo Ferrer, Juan Bautista i Alberto Guillén), Department of Experimental and Social Sciences (Ignacio García i Javier García), Department of Architecture (Beatriz Giobellina), Department of Constitutional Law (Antonio Montiel).
The exhibition is framed within the will of the Universitat to publish and disseminate the main aspects of the Valencian territory through the enriching contributions of their teaching and researcher staff. With these initiatives the Universitat de València through the Office of the Vice-principal for Territorial Projection and Participation attempts to disseminate the wealth of these unique places as well as the difficulties and transformations that suffer. In short, this exhibition is aimed to defend the region l’Horta de València, a cultural and environmental landscape which must be protected.
