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.
Last weekend, 21 and 22 of march 2015, took place at the Museu Agbar de les Aigües and to mark World Water Day, an unique event: the HackatH2On.
The HackatH2On was a hackathon of more than 30 intense hours of creativity, where people from the most varied backgrounds had the opportunity to met and to co-create mobile applications with aim of bringing citizens and the water world into close proximity. Programmers, engineers, designers, museum curators… all accepted the challenge and decided to participate on the HackatH2On.
La Mandarina de Newton was the entity hired by the Museu Agbar de les Aigües to organise this great creativity celebration! There were weeks of hard-work and the weekend itself, also a marathon for our team… but, certainly, an effort that was well worth it!
Being responsible of making posible that such creative people with an eager to share ideas, innovate and to ‘give one’s all’…, have the opportunity to meet at the same space to co-work on a project, is what make us forget all the effort required.
Also, seing that our work is recognised by the protagonists, make us feel even more motivated to keep on working! And our commitment is also to try to learn as much as posible from each single project, so the next one could be an even better experience for everyone!
A ‘BIG THANKS’ to all of you!!
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The call for participation was a success! 5 days before the announced deadline, the 90 available places were already sold out!
With a waiting list that did’t stop growing, the decision to increase the number of H2Ocreatives to 100, was taken!
Finally, on saturday morning, we filled up the Àgora auditorium of the Agbar Museum with more than 80 participants!!
The 24 hard-working hours resulted in over 20 high quality, creative and innovative proposals for mobile applications.
1st prize (3.000 euros): Cubus Games, formed by Jordi Solà, Jaume Carballo, Albert Pons and Quim Garreta, which created an interactive fiction application, ‘Agbar – the Water Temple’, suitable for all ages and that, from the visit to the museum, places the user on a drought context, letting him/her think about this future threat.
2nd prize (1.500 euros): SorryFib, formed by Daniel Otero and Guido Arnau, developed ‘H2O Game’, an application that uses gyroscope and fluid simulation and that makes use of the NFC tags located in different museum locations to unlock the game levels while visiting the exhibition.
3rd prize (the ’famous’ HackatH2On chair – a prize that the Agbar Museum decided to give after the spontaneous requests on social networks): O2H, formed by Miquel Llobet and Daniel Torremilans, who developed an application, ‘ShowerUp’, based on the concept of saving water under the shower, in which the users play with their friends trough a ranking competition, with the final goal of reducing water consumption.
As usually happens on a competition like this, there were too many great ideas for the number of prizes… lots of them with a really high quality!!
Our team would like to congratulate and thank ALL for the non-stop hard word and dedication!! We hope you enjoyed as much as we did!
We look forward to seeing you all in some other future activity!!
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.
FantàsTIC2015 is a competition of science-fiction micro-stories related with Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and with three main objectives: to encourage creative writing; imagine the future use of Internet and ICTs among citizens and schools in Catalonia; encourage artistic creation and the critic view of the language and to encourage radiophonic creation, with the production of short stories as a result of the adaptation of the winners’ texts.
This contest is open to groups of students from primary and secondary schools in Catalonia and to all citizens from the age of 16, individually or in groups.
The works should be a short science fiction story in Catalan which plot includes any device or usage related with ICTs.
There are diferente categories and the participant’s texts must be submitted before May 10, 2015!
<< You can read the contest guidelines at the FantàsTIC2015 webpage. >>
Following the contest, La Mandarina de Newton will propose several co-creation online projects inspired by the winner texts and open to all internet users. We propose the co-creation of new stories inspired from the first sentence of the three winning stories (one per category). The initiative called “FantasTIC continues…” will result in new “nano stories” (even shorter than the first ones) inspired by the winning stories and that are created from the participation of several people. Making the stories evolve in parallel and across different platforms, will result in a variety of rich and interesting stories.
Additionally, and outside the competition, the L’altra ràdio will freely organise a radio workshop with the young people, at the La Mandarina de Newton space. The aim is to make a radio adaptation of one of the works of the science fiction writer, Jordi de Manuel, and broadcast it together with the three winning FantàsTIC2015 entries.
La Mandarina de Newton is pleased to invite you to the 2nd Mandarina Beer Cafè Session with the artist Iris Heitzinger!!
WHAT?
From La Mandarina de Newton we aim to contribute as citizens of Barcelona to create a space, the Mandarina Beer Cafès, where we can discuss the topics we are passionate about: science, art, technology, design and learning.
TOPIC
We have chosen a topic that motivates us a lot and that has to do with knowledge, memory and learning: The Body of Knowledge. That is, the kind of knowledge that originates from the fact that we have a body, we experience with that body and that body exists in a specific context.
HOW? WHEN?
During the different Beer Cafès sessions (several Fridays, to be defined) we will be exploring different ways of understanding the body, the knowledge and we will be contrasting different ways of understanding them, some will be more phenomenological, others more biological and others will be influenced by the artistic experience of the body and the movement.
The 2nd session will take place on Friday, January 30, at 7 pm, at the Mandarina Space.
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!
La Mandarina de Newton is pleased to invite you to the 1st Mandarina Beer Cafè Session!!
WHAT?
From La Mandarina de Newton we aim to contribute as citizens of Barcelona to create a space, the Mandarina Beer Cafès, where we can discuss the topics we are passionate about: science, art, technology, design and learning.
TOPIC
We have chosen a topic that motivates us a lot and that has to do with knowledge, memory and learning: The Body of Knowledge. That is, the kind of knowledge that originates from the fact that we have a body, we experience with that body and that body exists in a specific context.
HOW? WHEN?
During the different Beer Cafès sessions (several Fridays, to be defined) we will be exploring different ways of understanding the body, the knowledge and we will be contrasting different ways of understanding them, some will be more phenomenological, others more biological and others will be influenced by the artistic experience of the body and the movement.
The 1st session will take place on Friday, November 21, at 7 pm, at the Mandarina Space.
GUEST / 1st SESSION (21/11)
David Casacuberta, Department of Philosophy, UAB
On the 17-18th of October, at Utopia Center for Art an d Technology in Zaragoza, took place the second edition of the Meeting on Innovative Outreach (II Jornadas de Divulgación Innovadora D+I). More than forty communicators from all over Spain met during these two days to present and share different approaches and strategies for communicate science. An intense meeting in which, under the motto ‘Science excites. Telling it, also’, professionals were able to discover innovative approaches, strategies and formats to talk about science. Humor, theatre, dance, magic, music, videogames, workshops… were some of the outreach ‘tools’ presented.
In addition to the professional sessions, citizens also had the opportunity to participate in this meeting. During the afternoons there were several free activities opened to the general public: collective creations with Lego, magic shows, concerts, collective intelligence experiments and scientific monologues.
La Mandarina de Newton also participated on this conference with the workshop ‘Creativity in Motion’. This was a two-day session workshop where, by playing with methodologies to promote creativity and with the help of new mobile technologies, participants had the opportunity to explore an audiovisual technique, Stop Motion, which is accesible to everyone and that can be used to communicate content in an easily, attractive and funny way.
In just three hours of co-creation, participants were able to make cool videos like this one:
You can watch all the videos created during this workshop on our Youtube Channel.
In addition, Irene Lapuente from La Mandarina de Newton was one of the moderators of the round table “Mixed, not stirred. Intersections, tangencies, miscegenation”. On this session there were four experts on hybridizing science with other disciplines, such as literature, music, art, graffiti or citizen participation. Two physicists, a musician and a mathematician: Gustavo Ariel Schwartz, Antonio Arias, Josep Perello and David Martin de Diego, presented their experiences and discussed with the others and the audience the chances to mix and the future of science.
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.
