Medialab Prado

The Ibero-American General Secretariat for Citizen Innovation (SEGIB) issues a call for experimentation and social innovation projects to foster documentation, prototyping, development and research projects to be develpoded during the LABiCBR workshop (Ibero-American Laboratoty for Citizen Innovation) that takes places from November 15 to 29, 2015 in en Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Deadline: August 3, 2015 

This open call aims to select a maximum of eight mediators-researchers that will assist users, dynamize work groups, space logistics and other tasks while developing a research project within the work lines of Medialab-Prado, from September 7, 2015 through July 31, 2016.

Deadline for applications: August 4, 2015.

Download complete pdf (in Spanish).   

The data journalism work group issues another call for projects. This year's topic is Exploring Inequality. Selectedc projects will be developed during two workshops coordinated by Adolfo Antón Bravo, Chema Blanco and under the supervision of experts such as Sylke Gruhnwald, Xosé Manuel Vilán, Daniele Grasso and Jesús Escudero.

Workshops will take place from October 23 to 25 and December 11 to 13, 2015.

Deadline: September 15, 2015. 

Open registration until September 1, 2015.

IMF 2015 Madrid: METATOPIA 1.0 - Occupy 2.0 is the annual meetup of METABODY, a 5 years European project of (2013-2018) supported by the Culture program of the European Union and the participation of 38 institutions from 16 countries. It is coordinated by Reverso in collaboration with ONCE Foundation.

> July 22 - 25: tour through different installations-performances-concerts-metaperformances. Daily shows for small groups (10 people max): 4:30pm, 5:30pm, 6:30 pm, 7:30pm. [Full program here]

> July 9 - 17: METATOPIA 1.0 - Occupy 2.0 workshop 

#metabodyforum 

Young Social Makers is an object creation workshop with a social orientation aimed at 15-25 years old people that takes place from September 24 to October 4, 2015 at Medialab-Prado's FabLab.

Young Social Makers is part of the Funcionamientos project and a collaboration between Fundación Orange España, Fundación Tecnología Social and Medialab-Prado.

Teachers: Gustavo Ferrari and Ramón Sevilla

Registration until September 8

The Ibero-American General Secretariat's for Citizen Innovation (Segib) and Medialab-Prado issue a call to select three projects to be prototyped in a two-weeks residency in Medialab-Prado.

Dealine: August 14, 2015

Every day 21:00h - 00:00h
LummoBlocks (21:00h): it is inspired by the legendary game "Tetris", and designed to create a social interaction between people and the public space which requires the facade to visualize the gam. The mechanics is similar to that of "Tetris": the players musttry to eliminate the highest number of lines possible in order to avoid the piueces reaching the upper part of the facade. The objective is to create an experience based on the playable interaction with the space.

#programalaplaza (21:00h - 23:00h): Showcase of a selection of experimental and interactive graphic proposals on the digital facade of the Plaza de las Letras, with a special Christmas feeling.

The projects developed during Visualizar'15: Commoning Data international workshop are on display until September 30. 

Watch the video where participants explain their work and experiences.