CaixaEscenaand La Mandarina de Newtonhave been working together with the aim of creating a pedagogical kit that could be used as a new and innovative tool when sharing and educating dramatic arts topics in the classroom. In order to do so, we found it essential to have the collaboration of theater professionals and teachers from other disciplines during the different phases of the process. For that we have organised three co-creating sessions with professionals from different areas of Spain.
These sessions started in Murcia (January 24) and this first workshop was a meeting for brainstorming and ideation. There was an interesting discussion on how theatre can be helpful for academic performance, the generation of debates and the personal growth (improving the self-esteem and the perception of others). Nearly a dozen participants assisted the workshop and it was really inspiring.
The second session took place in Madrid, on February 20, and it focused on the prototyping process. Ten participants nailed down the ideas generated in Murcia, added the online proposals, and all ended up combined in two different kit prototypes.
After these two workshops La Mandarina de Newton worked on the two designs proposed by the participants and was able to integrate both of them into a single prototype kit.
Finally, the last workshop was held in Barcelona, on March 20, and the attendees tested this prototype and gave feedback and new ideas in order to improve and extend it.
Now, with all this material, and with the help of theater experts and specialised designers, we will keep working on the prototype in order to achieve the final design of the CaixaEscena Pedagogical Kit.
On march 21 and 22 at the Museu Agbar de les Aigües, and to celebrate the World Water Day, we organize a 24 hours hackathon. The HackatH2On will take place at the premises of the museum and will bring together creative minds to develop innovative mobile applications with the aim of bringing citizens and the water world, and Museum itself, into close proximity.
This will be an unique event in which developers, designers, museum curators and users will have the opportunity of meeting in one place for a fun and intense session of co-creation, coding and collaboration.
Besides the opportunity to be part of a big creativity event, participants will compete for great prizes. There will be a prize in cash for the best app (3,000 euros), the possibility of a second prize in cash for the second best app (1,500 euros), and gifts for all participants. In addition, apps submitted may be future developed in collaboration with the Museu Agbar de les Aigües.
At the end of the event, programmers (individually or in teams) will present their creations to a jury of experts in museology, communication and apps, and representatives of the Museu Agbar de les Aigües.
Registrations are now open! Places are limited!
The deadline for applications is march 20, at 9a.m. (UTC/GMT +1).
Registration and all updated information about the HackatH2On will be available at the event’s webpage: www.hackatH2On.com.
CaixaEscena is a program that aims to support to the teachers who promote theater at their schools, by encouraging the exchange of knowledge between them and theater professionals. Through different activities for both teachers and students, CaixaEscena is a participatory project that proposes theater as a tool for cultural, social and educational development of young people.
This year La Mandarina de Newton will be the entity responsible for the organization of a new series of workshops within this educational program. The goal is to share the knowledge generated during the previous activities and give it a new form that will allow to expand and share, in a useful and intuitive way, that knowledge – a pedagogical kit. Over several co-creation sessions with teachers and theater professionals, we will be creating the basis of the didactic contents of that kit and which will afterwards be produced by CaixaEscena, along with specialized designers. This kit will then be available to both workshop participants, as to any other teacher that want to use it.
We will be leading three co-creation workshops throughout the first quarter of 2015, in three spanish autonomic regions:
January 24, 2015, Murcia. Workshop 1: Ideation and prototyping. Together we will create the basis of the didactic contents of the kit.
February 20, 2015, Madrid. Workshop 2: Content sprint. To identify and produce the main contents of the kit.
March 20, 2015, Barcelona. Workshop 3: Testing and final validation. Improvement suggestions and final presentation event.
All participants will be acknowledged and cited in the final design.
Participation in these workshops is open to all professionals interested in participating. Registration is free and the places limited!
To confirm your participation please contact us via email: espai@lamandarinadenewton.com.
La Mandarina de Newton, is the entity that collaborates with CaixaEscena, devising, coordinating, producing, executing and analyzing these sessions.
If you have any further questions, comments or suggestions, please do not hesitate to contact us!
This year, the Rezola Museum, in collaboration with the Oiasso Museum, presented a new project: Ondarebizia. This is a project of cultural heritage awareness and a platform that seeks to open new strategies to link heritage and citizenship, and the professionals of the sector.
Within the framework of this project, a line of actions were planned, called ’Open Session’, aimed at professionals in the museum sector, in order to discuss and share different topics of interest.
The workshop was divided in two sessions devoted to question and share concepts and trends around the theme of participation in museums. How do we understand the involvement of the museums? How do we manage it? Public and participatory processes? Why? For what?
Here you can watch the video of the ‘Open Session I’:
On Thursday, June 26, at the Sagrada Familia’s Library, La Mandarina de Newton was at the awards ceremony of the IV Scientific Writing Contest – Inspiraciencia, organized by CSIC (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas), with the support of the FECYT and the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness.
La Mandarina de Newton participated as part of the event’s organization and also presented the improvisational theatre show‘ImproCiència’ with the theatre company Planeta Impro.
The show is inspired by fragments of the texts that participated in the contest. These are stories that explore concepts such as technology, genetics, maths, nanotechnology, quantum mechanics, astronomy, sound… The show that we will be presenting on the 26th, will be an improvisation theatre show that will bring science and literature on the stage. Once again we want to offer to the public a different way of looking at science, this time through theatre and literature.
The performance is inspired by fragments of seven of the texts that participated in the contest. These are stories that explore concepts such as cloning, robotics, quantum mechanics, infinite, relativity, gravity and vacuum. The show that we will be presenting on the 30th, will be an improvisation performance of dance accompanied by an audiovisual work with the texts. The movements will play with the scientific concepts of the Inspiraciencia texts. We would like to offer to the audience a new experience, a different way of communicating science: through art and dance.
