Medialab Prado

Science Gallery (Dublin) and Medialab-Prado (Madrid) are issuing an Open Call for projects to be collaboratively developed and presented during Interactivos?'12 Dublin: Hack the City. Current and Future Needs (July 11 – 26, 2012), with the participation of advisors and technical assistants.

Advisors of the workshop: Tim Redfern, Carolina García Cataño, John Lynch with Teresa Dillon (HACK THE CITY curator).

Call Open: April 19 - May 20, 2012
Selection of proposals: May 21 - 27, 2012
Call for collaborators: June 1 - July 5, 2012
Development of projects (workshop): July 11 - July 26, 2012
Exhibition of prototypes: July 27 - September 7, 2012

16.05.2012 18:30h - 20:00h
Screenings of short films about political empowerments that (re)situate different claims for citizen emancipation in public opinion: Argentina in 2001, the Arab Spring, the Indignados of 15M, Greek resistance, demonstrations in London, student revolts in Chile and indigenous movements in Latin America (from Chiapas to the Patagonia), among other social manifestations that have occurred over the past decade.  

As of May 7 through the month of September 2012, Medialab-Prado is moving temporarily to the space of Intermediae Matadero Madrid, to enable completion of the remodelling work on the former Serrería Belga (Old Belgian Saw Mill), to be the future headquarters of Medialab-Prado (Plaza de Las Letras. Calle Alameda, 15). At this temporary location (Paseo de la Chopera, 14) Medialab-Prado will continue as much as possible to carry out all its scheduled activities, which will be announced at http://medialab-prado.es as usual.

Medialab-Prado's contact phones are eventually out of service.

Ljudmila, Digital Medialab of Ljubjliana, in collaboration with SGMK of Zurich and Medialab-Prado are seeking for proposals for an upcoming workshops in collaborative prototyping which will be hold in Ljubljana in space of Ljudmila Media Lab with the participation of advisors and technical assistants.

Advisors: Luka Frelih (director of Ljudmila, artist, programmer), Ida Hiršenfelder (art critic, art consultant), Chris Sugrue (artist, programmer) and Yago Torroja (hardware, electronics).

Open call: May 14 - June 8, 2012
Call for collaborators: From July 2, 2012
Workshop: September 5 -15, 2012

18.05.2012 - 19.05.2012
Presentation and learning workshop for the creation of 10 Air Quality Egg prototypes, a low cost open device to test air quality created collaboratively by people from all over the world. 

Activity within the framework of the City and Commons work group. 

Inscripción abierta 

City and Commons is a newly created workgroup within the Commons Lab in 2012 coordinated by Juan Freire and César García Saez. It is an open group that aims to involve a number of individuals and collectives that actively work in topics such as public space and citizen participation, and who want to create a meeting point to develop projects and reflect on the confluence between city, technology and governance.

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In 2012 the collective research project “Empresas del Procomún” will start a new stage in which we will finally conclude the different key elements and tasks that we set out this year and which are central in order to define the growth and later development of the project.

Inscripción abierta. 

The Master’s degree in Digital Communication, Culture and Citizenship (CCCD) offered by the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos aims to found and develop professional and academic projects in digital communication, culture and citizenship, as well as prepare students professionally to handle a changing social reality with suitable knowledge and skills, specialized in this area. Communication, Culture and Citizenship are inseparable on the web, whose technology means that the formats, messages and contents transmitted in these three areas are, to a large extent, shared and interchangeable.

Medialab-Prado will collaborate with the external practicum component of this Master’s Degree.