The ESPOL 2025 Open House brought together more than 4,000 high school students from four provinces in Ecuador, who visited the university's different faculties. The Faculty of Art, Design, and Audiovisual Communication (FADCOM) opened the doors of its laboratories, workshops, and galleries to share its creative essence and academic offerings with young people.
Schools such as U.E. Young Living Academy, U.E. Augusto Mendoza Moreira, Nuestra Madre de la Alborada, Academia Naval Guayaquil, U.E. Benemérita Sociedad Filantrópica del Guayas, U.E. Jacarandá, U.E. Baltasara Calderón de Rocafuerte, and Amarilis Fuentes Alcívar, among others, enjoyed the planned activities and learned about FADCOM's academic offerings.
At the ESPACIOS ADC Galleries, visitors were able to appreciate different artistic offerings. In Gallery ADC 1, professor Billy Soto exhibited the work of students of Technical Drawing and Pictorial Techniques, and also surprised visitors with the activity “Bad Portraits for $0.01,” a creative intervention that highlighted spontaneity and imperfection in art, generating closeness and curiosity among attendees. Meanwhile, in galleries 2 and 3, professor Antonio Moncayo presented a sample of student works and academic projects that reflected the versatility of contemporary art and design.
In the Audiovisual Laboratory, professor Víctor Cantos led a photography workshop, where participants learned basic techniques of lighting, framing, and set production, exploring how high-quality images are constructed. In Classroom A102, teacher Andrea Pino gave a talk on the different types of brands, showing the differences between graphic, typographic, and mixed brands, and how they build the visual identity of projects and companies.
Professor Andy Rodríguez presented the product design process, guiding students through the phases from the initial idea to the creation of a prototype, highlighting the value of creativity applied to functionality. Alla Kondratova led a drawing workshop using the sgraffito technique, where visitors experimented with scraping surfaces to reveal layers of color and create original textures and compositions.
The day also included an introduction to screen printing, led by Franklin Guadalupe in Workshop T202, where participants experienced printing designs on fabric and paper using this artisanal and artistic technique.
Finally, Art and Technology master's students shared the exhibition “[DES]integrar el olvido” (Disintegrating Oblivion), a space for reflection on memory, technology, and art, where visitors could connect academic research with experimental artistic creation.
The ESPOL Open House aims to bring young people closer to university life, provide them with vocational guidance, and show them the impact that their studies will have on their professional future, as one of the teachers explained. With innovative proposals and practical experiences, FADCOM dazzled the students, reaffirming its commitment to training new generations in the fields of art, design, and communication.
© Photography Alejandro Nuñez & Written José Luis Castro
