Solar Learning Labs

"La Caja Cósmica (The Cosmic Box) is an invitation to discover what’s happening inside the box-shape container. This huge “box”, with its extravagant mechanism as a metaphor for an inventor’s imagination, makes me think about everyday gadgets (tiny boxes full of incredible mechanisms as well). Each one of these boxes connects us with something huge — the Cosmos itself! — all of this through technological education. Everything in this mural is about the creative potential of technology mixed with the awesome power of children’s imagination.”

- Alejandro Diaz Diaz, aka “2D”

“[This mural] focuses on the education of Mexico using iconography of the country's cultural wealth, [including] pre-Hispanic and typical Mexican elements adding bright elements and electric colors typical of our country.”

- Cocolvú

“To me, the education process includes not only learning but also passing the knowledge. I painted pupils enjoying the new experiences of learning how to use the computer to reach the outside world and ... raise their awareness on the available technologies and how to harness them to achieve their dreams.”

- Harrison Chege

Our artist for the solar learning lab in Morocco painted a youth flying in the clouds with the traditional Moroccan outfit to highlight the balance between the modernity of the knowledge required nowadays and the importance to keep deep roots. Crossing the gate of knowledge is represented at the back with “The Bab el Mansour” gate, considered as one of the four most beautiful gates in North Africa if not in the world.