• Title: Mobility Lab Campus
• Art and Project: Olabe Basogain
• Technique: Vinyls
• Size:  10 vinyls measuring 3-4, and 8m x 2m
• Date: September 2025
• Place: Basement of the Vitoria-Gasteiz School of Engineering

Welcome! to the Mobility Lab Campus of the Vitoria-Gasteiz School of Engineering.

This space is more than a laboratory corridor: it's a gallery of movement, purpose, and collaboration.

Each mural is a dialogue between image and idea—open to interpretation, connection, and reflection.

- Tour of the left side (from Mural 9 - Motion with Meaning - Sailboats)

This side speaks to us of energy, systems, and transformation: from raw power to refined action.

Mural 1 – Power with Purpose (Bull)
We all know power. But without purpose, power only goes around. The real challenge is directing it, without losing its force.

Mural 2 – From Spark to Street (Rocky Mountains)
Ideas are born as sparks—bright, unpredictable. But what matters is how they travel through the world. Between a spark and a street, there is friction, design, and persistence.

Mural 3 – Speed ​​with Balance (Rider and Horse)
Speed ​​without control is chaos. What matters is balance: that delicate moment when control and momentum coincide.

Mural 4 – Eyes on the Horizon (Figure Looking Outward)
Before acting, we must look. Beyond the data, beyond the present. This is the long view—thinking not only for today, but for the coming decades.

- Right-hand Side Tour (from Mural 9 - Purposeful Movement - Sailboats)

This side speaks of vision, teamwork, and the human side of innovation.

Mural 5 – Agility and Tenacity (Cyclist)
This cyclist isn't riding on flat ground. The climb matters. Tenacity turns pressure into progress. And agility, the ability to adapt, is what keeps us in the race.

Mural 6 – Together We Move (Rowing Team)
No technology works without people. No team without rhythm. Collaboration isn't an extra—it's essential.

Mural 7 – Moving Forward with Design (City Outline)
Everything we walk through—stairs, streets—was once a line, a decision. This wall reminds us that the future doesn't happen to us: we design it.

Mural 8 – Precision in Motion (Tennis Player)
Every action in the lab is like that of an athlete: it requires time, feedback, and adjustment. Precision isn't about standing still; it's about being present in movement.

Upon arriving at the Mobility Lab Campus from the secondary entrance, mural 10 - Passageway greets you like a threshold: a space of transit where daily campus life becomes a shared movement, anticipating the dialogue between science and society that inhabits the lab.

Mural 10 - Passageway (People Walking)

In this lab, every step leaves a mark, and every intersection opens up possibilities. The passageway is not just a transit space: it is the space where science and life meet.

This work is part of the "Irekia STEAM Art" project, which fuses visual arts with science and technology in spaces on the university campus. The result is a sensorial and symbolic experience that transforms a place of passage into a space for contemplation and connection with nature from a contemporary perspective.

Wind has no hands,
but it holds the sail steady—
we follow its momentum.

A university lab is where motion  becomes intention,
and intention becomes insight.

Force without a path
waits to be named by a hand
or broken by wind.

Energy must be harnessed, focused, and directed
to where it matters.

Fire breaks stone,
tracing valleys that become paths —
movement seeks its route.

From idea to application, knowledge traverses landscapes —
shaped by resistance, guided by design.

Between power and flow,
a rider trusts on the silence
just before the leap.

Mastery is not just how fast we move,
but how steadily we remain aware while doing so.

What you can't see
still shapes the way your body
leans into the wind.

Foresight is not prediction.
It's the habit of looking farther, listening longer, and acting with presence.

The hill leans awayleans awayleans away,
but the wheel learns to answer
with rhythm, not rest.

The work of the lab lives in persistence—
not the absence of challenges, but movement through it.

The blade hits the wave
only when the breath aligns —
strength begins with trust.

Innovation does not come from brilliance alone —
it comes from coordination, rhythm, and a shared vision.

Nothing this street
arrived without intention —
it was once an idea.

Design in the place where possibility meets discipline —
and becomes and becomes a space someone else can walk through.

One still breath, then strike
the future arcs through tension
held inside the form.

Accuracy is movement made accountable to intention.

This corridor welcomes you with a silent choreography of people — students, professors, technicians, staff — walking together, studying solutions, crossing paths, reflecting the everyday life of the laboratory.

The Mobility Lab is built not only with technology, but with encounters — a place of movement, collaboration, and shared purpose.

1. Visual Identity for an Innovation Space
The Mobility Lab Campus (MLC) emerges as a space for research, innovation, and knowledge transfer in mobility, supported by various collaborating institutions. Through this artistic intervention, the goal is to provide the MLC with a powerful visual identity that symbolizes its values ​​and projects its mission forward, reinforcing its purpose of mobility, shared knowledge, and interdisciplinary collaboration.

2. Symbols of Mobility, Knowledge, and Collaboration
The artistic project is structured around nine symbolic figures located on glass murals in the MLC's main hallway. Large in scale—up to 2 meters high and several meters wide—these images are integrated with the building's architecture, generating an immersive visual experience that goes beyond the literal. Each figure acts as an evocative visual symbol, inviting reflection and fostering an emotional connection with those who pass through the space.

3. “Movement with Meaning”: Invisible Impulse, Visible Intention
A special piece called “Motion with Meaning” has been installed in a secondary entrance to the MLC. It consists of four glass panels depicting sailboats propelled by the wind. Symbolically, the wind—although invisible—directs and sustains the sail, evoking the MLC's character as a space where movement becomes intention, and intention becomes knowledge. Although located in a less-traveled entrance, this work amplifies the visual narrative, reminding us that any access point can also be a starting point for new ideas.

4. Art as an Extension of Scientific Thought
Beyond aesthetics, this intervention deeply integrates art into a technological environment, transforming the MLC into an open, creative, and transversal space. The figures reinforce the collective identity of the campus, redefine everyday space, and project the values ​​that define its scientific activity, fostering a shared aesthetic and symbolic experience for everyone—technicians, researchers, and visitors.

5. Scale, Light, and Sensory Engagement
On glass surfaces and in monumental formats (up to 4 m wide), the figures acquire an architectural presence that impacts visually, corporally, and spatially. The public does not observe them from outside: they walk alongside them, discover them from different angles, and see themselves reflected in their surfaces. The interaction with natural light and daily flow brings these images to life, transforming them according to the moment, movement, and human interaction.

6. Visual Polysemy and Interpretive Openness
The figures have been conceived as open symbols, without a single reading. Each viewer can interpret their meaning from their own experience or discipline, reinforcing the idea that both knowledge and mobility are changing and constantly evolving processes.

7. Community, Belonging, and Identity
This project is designed for both those who are part of the MLC and its visitors. The intervention contributes to building a sense of belonging by transforming the physical space into a place with character, memory, and meaning. The figures act as visual markers that identify the campus, differentiating it within the institutional context.

8. A Look to the Cultural Future
This first artistic action opens up multiple future cultural opportunities: guided tours, publications, temporary exhibitions, and interdisciplinary collaborations. It is a declaration of intent: the MLC not only researches and develops technology, but also curates its visual language, symbolism, and emotional dimension.

9. Conclusion: A Meaningful Experience
The artistic intervention transforms the MLC into a holistic experience. Through these visible and shared symbolic figures, the campus reinforces its identity, highlights its values ​​of knowledge, mobility, and collaboration, and consolidates itself as a space where science and art converge, inviting everyone to become part of its shared vision.

Enter the North Gallery

More Information about MLC: MOBILITY LAB CAMPUS - EIVG

La Co-financiación del proyecto  MOBILITY LAB CAMPUS ha sido realizada por el Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades, y la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea:

• 2808 467C A la Universidad del País Vasco (UPV) Proyecto Mobility Lab 500.000 (Plan Estatal de Investigación Científica, Técnica y de Innovación 2021-2023)