La imagen de la química: ¡destápala!
El próximo jueves 17 de noviembre se inaugurará la exposición La imagen de la química: ¡destápala!, preparada por la Universidad de Valencia y comisariada por los profesores Carmen Ramirez de Arellano y Salvador Albiñana. La exposición estará en la Sala de la Muralla del Colegio Mayor Rector Peset (Plaza Horno de San Nicolás, 4, 46001 Valencia) hasta el 5 de febrero de 2012.
La imagen de la química ¡Destápala! es una exposición que invita al espectador a reflexionar sobre las causas y consecuencias de la percepción social negativa que ha tenido –y sigue teniendo- la química. A pesar del esfuerzo que en estos doscientos últimos años han realizado los científicos por mostrar la química como fuente de conocimiento, salud, confort y bienestar, el término se asocia popularmente con venenos, sustancias peligrosas, armas, polución medioambiental o incluso con la alquimia, la brujería y los científicos locos. Esta actitud ha podido contribuir, quizá, a la considerable disminución en el número de estudiantes y de departamentos universitarios destinados a la química, y también a la creación de nuevas especialidades en las que la palabra química se ha modulado o desaparecido por completo: ‘Química Verde’, ‘Ciencia de Materiales’, ‘Ciencia Molecular’, ‘Nanotecnología’…
La exposición presenta treinta imágenes procedentes del arte, la prensa, la publicidad, o la literatura académica, agrupadas en cinco secciones que tratan diferentes ámbitos de la química. La primera –La imagen visual. Perspectivas– es un apunte sobre la imagen pública de la química, y está basada en el trabajo The Public Image of Chemistry, editado por Joachim Schummer, Bernardette Bensuade-Vincent y Brigitte Van Tigglen (World Scientific, 2007). Una imagen, forjada a lo largo de siglos, que resulta de la interacción entre científicos y no científicos. Comprender los mensajes socioculturales implícitos y el contexto histórico de determinados estereotipos visuales con los que se retrata a la química, permite conocer las asociaciones negativas que conllevan.
Medio ambiente y energía es la segunda sección. La química ha cambiado nuestro modo de vida de forma irreversible y difícilmente renunciaríamos a los logros alcanzados. Los químicos se involucran en la búsqueda de soluciones energéticas innovadoras de mayor rendimiento y menor impacto medioambiental, sin embargo el público los relaciona con el deterioro del ecosistema y del planeta.
El agua, los metabolitos o los productos naturales son compuestos químicos y también lo son los productos sintéticos que potabilizan el agua, combaten epidemias, tienen propiedades farmacológicas y permiten una producción de alimentos sanos en condiciones adversas. La tercera sección –Salud, higiene y alimentos– destaca algunos de los muchos logros alcanzados al crear compuestos de aplicaciones beneficiosas que en la interfase con el público pasan a ser meras substancias tóxicas y portadoras de enfermedades.
El siguiente apartado –Nuevos materiales– presenta la evolución de la tecnología, los tejidos, los deportes y los materiales que utilizamos a diario, gracias a la síntesis de nuevos productos. Sin embargo, se observa que el protagonismo de la química en estos derivados de última generación y con propiedades antes impensables, a los que difícilmente renunciaríamos, se hace más patente cuando se convierten en contaminantes…
Por último –Prensa y campañas de imagen– destaca que ‘química’ puede ser ese algo, intangible, abstracto, que subyace en una buena relación o fusión, algo que combina bien, aunque se utiliza también con frecuencia con connotaciones negativas: un río lleno de productos químicos, un gel que no los contiene… Las campañas para mostrar el papel benefactor de la química en el devenir de la humanidad se repiten a lo largo de la historia. Este año 2011, en el que se conmemora el centenario de la concesión del Premio Nobel de Química a Marie Skolodowska-Curie, ha sido declarado Año Internacional de la Química en un nuevo y necesario esfuerzo de acercamiento de esta ciencia a la sociedad.
La exposición se puede solicitar. Para más información:
Ana I. Bonmatí Alcántara
Técnica Actividades
Colegio Mayor Rector Peset
Universidad de Valencia
ana.bonmati@uv.es
Tfno. 963166004
Remitido por:
Dra. Carmen Ramírez de Arellano Universidad de Valencia Carmen.Ramirezdearellano@uv.es
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