ComCienciArte. Community, Science and Art, a proposal for the integration of Atapuerca in the territory is a community space for research, creation and social innovation developed by the Atapuerca Foundation in its effort to reinforce its commitment to the local communities linked to the Atapuerca sites through new models of citizen participation. We propose to activate a transdisciplinary citizen laboratory where the intersection of Art, Science and society responds to the ecosocial challenge of depopulation, uprooting and the feeling of link with the territory. A process that seeks to create synergies of collective knowledge to promote the integration and the link of the Atapuerca sites -World Heritage since 2000- in the territory.
The project will run from March to July 2024. The main activity is the implementation of a citizen laboratory whose aim is to connect citizens with Atapuerca's heritage. To this end, links for improvement will be explored between these municipalities and the potential economic and social effects of the Atapuerca sites, through a common space for participation and social dynamization where experiences, ideas and knowledge can be shared.
A collaborative mapping of the territory will also be carried out, reflecting those elements that the participants of the citizen laboratory want to highlight: heritage and natural spaces, leisure places, restaurants, walking and cycling routes, artistic elements such as sculptures, murals...
It is also proposed to carry out an artistic residency during the excavation campaign at the Atapuerca sites. For this purpose, a competition will be held in which artists from different disciplines will be able to participate in the elaboration of a project that links the findings of the sites with the traditional knowledge of the Sierra, and that contemplates the participation of the community.
Finally, the citizen laboratory will be accompanied by a sociological research study, with the participation of experts from the University of Burgos and the Pablo de Olavide University, which will record the entire process and continue the work previously developed on the situation of Atapuerca and its surroundings.
This project has been funded by the Ministry of Social Affairs and Agenda 2030, within its call for competitive grants for projects related to the promotion and implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in Spain.
