The CREAR 2023 award of the Aragonese Youth Institute is a competition that aims to contribute to promoting the work of young Aragonese creators, highlighting the result of their activity through awards consisting of both economic endowments and the exhibition and dissemination in circuits in accordance with the type of work or result of the creative activity.
Alexandra Arqued, a student of the Degree in Product Design at UDIT, University of Design, Innovation and Technology, has been proclaimed the winner of the 6th edition of these awards thanks to her Final Degree Project "Ukeyo" in the Technological category.
"Ukeyo" consists of an innovative proposal whose aim is to improve the accessibility of music, both in its practice and in learning, in a sensory and inclusive way. The project, ready to enter the prototype phase, is a glove-shaped design that allows the creation of melodies: a device that is operated with the hands and allows the transformation of musical art into an educational and stimulating game for all audiences with multiple and enriching applications.
The jury, made up of Julia Millán, cultural programmer and owner of the Antígona bookshop; the painter Pepe Cerdá; Héctor Paz, CEO and co-founder of Imascono; Beatriz Lucea, manager of Lucea Valero Museums and Heritage; Jaime López, piano accompanist at the Municipal Professional Dance Conservatory in Zaragoza; the director and producer Laura Sipán and Pablo Ferrer, a journalist specialising in music, who highlighted the high quality of the works presented for their originality and technical quality, as well as the variety of artistic languages used.
In this 6th edition, a total of 157 young people presented their proposals with 117 works - some of them collective - of which 106 were finally selected to compete.
