faces à faces

faces à faces, originally uploaded by adelie.

The University of Geneva celebrates its 450th anniversary by decorating one of its buildings, Uni Dufour, with the portraits of people who have been associated with the university, either through studying or teaching. You can read more about it here.

One disturbing thing to notice is that all the blue screens portray women and the reddish-yellow screens portray men. They obviously hint at the lack of women scholars by the numerous empty blue screens. Incredibly, this idea was proposed by " le Secteur de l’égalité de l’UNIGE" (Equal rights department of the university). Swiss still has a long way to go above the gender discrimination.

Uni Dufour
Genève, CH
Août 2009