Medialab Prado

Second meeting of the year where the different work groups of the Commons Lab explain their ongoing activities. Groups: work plan 2011 by YP, collaborative translation of Two Bits, Ecologies of the Commons. And presentation of: International Commons Lab Meeting in Medialab-Prado May 2011, First week of free works (SOL1) and Banco Intercambio de Semillas in Intermediae, Matadero Madrid. [live streaming]

Lecture by Txomin Calvo and David Rodríguez (La Sociedad Gastronómica) within the framework of Aesthetics and Politics of the Commons. 

Sixth session of 26,000 pixels, a work group/workshop around the aesthetics of programming for experimenting with the digital facade of Medialab-Prado, at plaza de las Letras. [live streaming]

03.03.2011 17:00h - 21:00h
This session is aimed to rise conclusions from the different Thinking and Doing Medialab-Prado meetings that had taken place. Margarita Padilla and Amador Fernández-Savater present the result of the analysis of all the contributions from users and collaborators of Medialab-Prado, as well as from texts of people who have actively participated in the sessions.

Meetings are open to the participation of anyone interested.

Within the activities 26.000 pixeles and Jugando con números, Golan Levin gives a lecture about creative programming, paying particular attention to how the use of gestural interfaces, visual abstraction, and information visualization can support new modes of interaction, play, and self-discovery, among other topics. 

> Programme of the seminars of Jugando con números 

Chris Sugrue and Daniel Sánchez present the project "Jugando con Números", a series of seminars and production workshops exploring relationships between juggling, mathematics, and programming, from an artistic or creative point of view. [ilve streaming]

Presentation of Move Commons: Moving initiatives, collectives and NGOs towards the Commons, a tool which provides labels to let initiatives identify themselves, allowing 1) others to understand your initiative's approach, 2) connecting with other similar collectives, 3) volunteers finding you easier. [live streaming]

For this meeting we will count with the presentation by Raquel (Lucas) Platero and David Berná, after that there will be a debate on the proposed topic with all the participants on the meeting. Apart from that, the work group Gender+Tech will make its presentation. [streaming]

Work session of the Commons Laboratory to examine previous meetings, look at new proposals for different work groups, and outline the schedule of activities and various actions to be carried out over the year.