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Medialab-Prado Madrid

Medialab-Prado Madrid

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Creative Diary Master RULES - read carefully Description of the Theme: ‘Design (for) Emergency’ IED calls young creatives to develop ideas and projects describing ‘Design (for) Emergency’: please apply this concept to the area of studies that you prefer, Fashion, Design, VisualCommunication, Management. “Emergency” means a serious situation or occurrence that happens unexpectedly and demands immediate action, a condition of urgent need for action or assistance. Our goal is to show how the design can be a useful guide for real emergency situations, how can you exploit design to find solutions for natural disasters/catastrophes, urban and domestic problems, how design can be a significant element for new proposals, in order to improve the world and the life of its inhabitants. For each IED area a briefing has been defined.

Visualizar Data Visualization is a transversal discipline which harnesses the immense power of visual communication in order to explain, in an understandable manner, the relationships of meaning, cause and dependency which can be found among the great abstract masses of information generated by scientific and social processes. The Visualizar project, directed by José Luis de Vicente, is conceived as an open and participatory research project around theory, tools and strategies of information visualization. Visualizar has the support of Bestiario, whose members have collaborated actively in every edition up to date. >> In the past:Visualizar'11: Understanding Infrastructures|Visualizar'09: Public Data, Data in Public | Visualizar'08: Database City | Visualizar'07| Hashtag: #visualizar

The Dictionary of Imaginary Places The Dictionary of Imaginary Places (1980, 1987, 1999) is a book written by Alberto Manguel and Gianni Guadalupi. It takes the form of a catalogue of fantasy lands, islands, cities, and other locations from world literature—"a Baedecker or traveller's guide...a nineteenth-century gazetteer" for mental travelling. The book[edit] To remain of manageable size, the Dictionary excludes places that are off the planet Earth (eliminating many science fiction locales), as well as "heavens and hells and places of the future," and literary pseudonyms for existing places, like the Yoknapatawpha County of William Faulkner or the Barsetshire of Anthony Trollope and Angela Thirkell. It compensates by covering a wide range of anonymous and obscure sources, and volumes of forgotten lore.

Time To Get Something On The Side: 30 Inspiring Passion Projects And Why You Should Have One Note: This article is also included in our year-end creative wisdom round-up. Can painting a rock help you in your professional life? What about performing card tricks? Painting, sculpting, writing children’s books? Research iota iota's Research Program is two fold: First, to provide the resources necessary for academic inquiry in the form of our study center and online publications. Second, to encourage and support the work of individual scholars engaged in special projects. Library and Study Center Building on the extraordinary collection of Dr. William Moritz and The Creative Film Society, iota has assembled an extensive media collection uniquely focused on abstraction in film, video, performance and installation art. Along with the collection there is a small Screening Room equipped with a full HD projector donated by Epson.

Medialab-Prado Many workshops for the production of projects, conferences, seminars, encounters, project exhibition, concerts, presentations, etc. take place in its versatile space. All activities are free and open to the general public. Our primary objective is to create a structure where both research and production are processes permeable to user participation.

Lifestyle District Welcome to Lifestyle District. the food, culture and UK travel blog by Bristol-based Dan Martin & Virginia Allwood, the duo behind Le Shop UK. Always on the look out for the latest exhibition or the tastiest meals, we wanted to share our culinary adventures and cultural discoveries in a blog. For us both, curiosity is more than a state of mind; it's a way of life! Define - define Define From define Jump to: navigation, search About StudioLab project Through a synergistic network, Studiolab is inspiring new approaches to environmental, technological and social challenges and providing a template for innovative art science collaborations. Studiolab involves interaction between 13 leading centres of scientific research, artistic excellence and experimental design accross 12 European countries. StrandsThese partners are collaborating and working with world leading scientists, artists, and designers to pilot projects using integrated strands of incubation, education and public engagement. Incubation actions develop and strengthen ideas, bringing them from concepts to outcomes. Educational modules tackle interdisciplinary learning and an art-science approach within second and third level formal education systems.

How to participate Open space Medialab-Prado is a free space open to the general public, so you can take part in all the activities as part of the public (presentations, debates, seminars, exhibits of projects created here, etc.) Occasionally, prior registration is necessary for certain activities due to space limitations. Medialab-Prado is open to the public Monday to Friday from 4 p.m. to 9 p.m. and Saturday from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.

Internet Laboratories: Debate Sessions Photo by CCCB. Photographer: Carlos Cazurro In its trajectory, Medialab-Prado has sought responses to these matters through reflection and practices, and in order to explore them further, we propose a set of small laboratories for experimenting with and thinking about various topics related to the Internet: a series of interrelated spaces that also serve as dissemination spaces and generate an infrastructure that facilitates the production of other projects –their software, their licences, their forms of organization, etc.- all from a standpoint of the commons. To start getting this process underway, MLP invited a group of people and initiatives to contribute their perspectives on the Internet as seen from the various areas where they carry out their practices, and to imagine how these ideas could be materialized in the physical space and programme of a citizens’ digital culture laboratory.

Tíscar Lara My name is Tíscar Lara and I am the Vice Dean of Digital Culture of Spain’s School of Industrial Organization (EOI, Escuela de Organización Industrial). I have been teaching digital literacy, educational technology and means of communication for over ten years in official centres for teachers’ education and in several postgraduate programmes in different Spanish universities. From 2004 to September of 2009 I have been a lecturer in Journalism for the Universidad Carlos III of Madrid.

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