Medialab Prado

Ars Games asociation organizes the 6th International Conference on the Philosophy of Computer Games: The Nature of Player Experience on January 29, 30 and 31 in Intermediae MataderoMadrid and Medialab-Prado. The goal is to research topics and issues related to philosophical aspects of computer game studies. Free admission. Limited seating. [live streaming]

Debate with experts and citizens about Information and Communication Technologies and how to take advantage of all their potential by analyzing mistakes and common uses that have slowed down the adoption process. 

#redflexion

Mass Media, Multiculturalism and Migration: Crisis, Strategies and Challenges

This seminar aims to offer a critical analysis about the political and mass media spheres in relation with migratory processes. With the participation of professional journalists and researchers that will reflect on the rol of new inmigrant minorities and their media context. [live streaming] hashtag: #medmigra

Second session debate panels Making worlds: Mediation practices in the Network Society organized by Medialab-Prado in collaboration with Amador Fernández-Savater. 

Collective reading of Los Justos. Ética de la inteligencia colectiva by Pierre Levy, presentation of the debate tables and introductory remarks by Marcos García and Laura Fernández (Medialab-Prado). Free admission.

Session on Data Journalism. With the participation of Xaquín González Veira (The New York Times), Annamarie Cumiskey (Bureau of Investigative Journalism), Mar Cabra (International Consortium of Investigative Journalists - ICIJ) and David Cabo (Pro Bono Público).

Moderated by: José Luis Vicente [live streaming]

Organized by: Medialab-Prado, Access Info and Pro Bono Público 

Simultaneous translation English/Spanish*

Hashtag: #periodismodatos

Presentations and seminar program on June 14 and 15, 2011 during the workshop-seminar Visualizar'11: Understanding Infrastructures, an event on the production of projects that will investigate, analyze and represent through data the running of infrastructures and global systems. The seminar will take place on June 13 and 14.  Free admission. Limited seating. [live streaming]

Workshop: June 14 -  July 1, 2011. Seminar: June 14, 15 and 27 2011

> Call for collaborators (until June 12)

> Other activities 

> Selected projects and papers for Visualizar'11: Understanding Infrastructures

From June 14 to July 1 Visualizar'11: Understanding Infrastructures offers an international project development workshop and a theoretical seminar where selected papers will be presented.

This edition's proposals tackle a key theme: visibilizing infrastructures, this is, big systems that support global processes: from the infrastructures that produce and transfer energy and water to the ones that make possible global communication and mobility.

Directed by José Luis de Vicente. With the participation of Juan Freire (EOI Escuela de Organización Industrial). Leading tutors: Dietmar Offenhuber (SENSEable Cty Lab / MIT), Amber Frid-Jimenez and Andrew Vande Moere (Information Aesthetics). Workshop technical assistants: Martín Nadal and Massimo Avvissati. With the support of Bestiario.

June 30 / 19:00h: Final presentation of developed projects [+info]

> List of selected projects and papers
> Call for collaborators (until June 12)
> Seminar Program (June 14, 15 and 27)

Hashtag: #visualizar11

The first meeting of the Social Studies of Science and Technology Network in Spain (eSCTS) aims to gather during three days researchers that work in Spain in this research fiel aiming to create a discussion and exchange space for shared knowledge.

SOL1 is a week of independent activities in different venues of the city of Madrid around free culture and licenses, featuring exhibitions, projections, lectures, debates, and concerts. The activities program features 30 activities that aim to visibilize works under free licenses, this is, those who allow users to "reuse" its contents, apply the knowlede to modify and improve them, and distribute copies freely.

> Activities Program

This round table offers an overview of open innovation and open data initiatives within the context of the Visualizar'11: Understanding Infrastructures event. The aim is to show their practical possibilities starting from collaborative/shared projects between institutions with similar goals. Open Data contribution and its relation with citizen projects will be analyzed through some successful examples. This event is organized in collaboration with EOI School of Business. [live streaming]