Thinking and Doing Medialab-Prado October 14
Place: Medialab-Prado · Plaza de las Letras, C/ Alameda, 15 Madrid
Third working session to analyze the current situation of the medialab and debate its future: working formats, ways of doing and operating systems. ¿How should Medialab-Prado respond to the context described during the last session?
Medialab-Prado's collaborators, participants, users and external analysts will take part. These meetings are open to anyone interested. [live streaming]
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- A brief thought about the possibilities of self-management in Medialab-Prado (pdf)
- Looking through the "Medialab Model": Organization, funding, methodology and visibility (pdf)
- An Organization for Medialab-Prado (pdf)
- Medialab-Prado as an Operative System for Cultural Investigation (pdf)
- Media(nera)lab as Media-Infraestructure (pdf)
In this public session different approaches will be discussed. Text will soon be published in this same site.
During the public session Juan Martín Prada analizes and presents texts by Juan Freire and Nerea Calvillo, and Miguel Álvarez-Fernández will do the same with the texts of Jordi Claramonte, José Luis de Vicente and Jesús G. Barahona.
Working draft:
· Jordi Claramonte: Una pequeña reflexión sobre las posibilidades de autogestionar Medialab-Prado [+info]
. Juan Freire: Revisando el "modelo Medialab": Organización, financiación, metodología y visibilidad [+info]
· José Luis de Vicente: Medialab-Prado como sistema operativo para la investigación cultural [+info]
· Jesús G. Barahona: Una organización para MLP: elementos para el debate basados en el mundo del software libre [+info]
· Nerea Calvillo: Media(nera)lab como media-infraestructura [+info]
Next session: March 3, 2011
What is Thinking and Doing Medialab-Prado?
After almost three years at its current location at the Plaza de las Letras, Medialab-Prado is now facing a move to a new location in the adjoining building, the former Serrería Belga (Belgian Sawmill). This change poses a significant challenge, given that it involves conditions different from the present ones, in terms of scale and context.
Therefore, now seems like a good time to open up a space for reflection and an analysis of its practices and operating methods, its context, audiences and users. This will help us to plan the future through a process of dialogues, gathering multiple contributions and perspectives; an inclusive process involving people who have made fundamental contributions to configuring the project, including regular collaborators and users. It also includes the views of people outside the project and is open to anyone interested in contributing ideas or listening to the discussions.
Pensando y haciendo Medialab-Prado is an activity with a structure of four work sessions held throughout 2010, with the participation of the following guests: Miguel Álvarez-Fernández, Nerea Calvillo, Jordi Claramonte, Juan Freire, Jesús González Barahona, Antonio Lafuente, Juan Martín Prada, Carolina del Olmo, José Luis de Vicente, and members of the Fridays OpenLab group.
In parallel to the onsite sessions programme, we have initiated an information gathering process, sending several questions to regular collaborators and users so they can serve as a guide for each person to send us their views on what Medialab is and what it could be.
1. Description and assessment of your experience at Medialab-Prado
2. What do you find most valuable, and what aspects do you think should change or improve?
3. How do you think Medialab-Prado should evolve, in view of its future setting
The assessments received will be posted on this Web site and will serve as the basis for the work group’s analysis.
If you want to send your assessment, send your name, a brief bio, and your answers to the questions to: pensando[arroba]medialab-prado.es
Thinking and Doing Medialab-Prado is being carried out with the collaboration of Alberto Corsín y Adolfo Estalella.