LAB#02 'The Metabolic Sublime' is the second in a series of interdisciplinary laboratories for research and collaborative production that Medialab Matadero will deploy throughout 2022 and 2023 to materialize and operationalize collective intelligences. LAB#02 has a six-month program that will run from September to February in different spaces of Matadero Madrid, and will offer a collaborative prototyping workshop, conferences, courses, seminars, artistic projects and a large OpenLAB event where the activities carried out during the six months of the program will be made visible. Energy...

Medialab-Prado counts with a permanent space open to the public with informtion related to the different activities, lines of work and projects under development. The cultural mediation program has as one of its aims to receive visitors and users, facilitate their access to this information, offer a chance to dialogue with the visitors and introduce them to project in development. Thanks to the work of the mediation team, Medialab-Prado is space for listening, for encounters, conections between diverse agents and of informal learning.

xperimenta District opens citizen laboratories in the districts of Madrid. Places of meeting and learning where and neighbors can present projects designed for the neighborhoods or participate in its development. After the pilot experience of Villaverde Experimenta in 2016, and a first phase in the spring of 2017 in the districts of Fuencarral, Moratalaz and Retiro, the laboratories of Fuencarral Experimenta and Moratalaz Experimenta restart their activity in November to provide support to the projects developed during the production workshops and to design a program in complicity with...

Program initiated in 2006. Each year a new international collaborative prototyping workshop is celebrated in which different topics are addressed through creative experimentation with free hardware and software tools: creative programming, graphic experimentation, interaction design, digital narratives, etc.

During a period of fifteen days, 10 multidisciplinary teams participate in the workshop of Collective Intelligence for Democracy, creating prototypes to activate collective intelligence, improving democracy and citizen commitment. At the end of spring of 2018, the call for projects will be published and, at the end of the summer, the call for collaborators will be announced. In November more than 60 participants selected to work on the different projects will meet.

Work and experimentation platform for the digital facade of Medialab-Prado. Sonic Skate Plaza project, by Pablo Serret de Ena and collaborators Project Log: European Urban Media Network for Connecting Cities (2012-2016), comisariado por Nerea Calvillo Interfaces sólidas y juegos urbanos: Juegos digitales en el espacio público (2013) Media(nera)lab (2009-2010), curated by Nerea Calvillo. 26.000 pixls (2011), developed by Chris Sugrue City Fireflies, (2011-2012) an interactive game by Sergio Galán and Víctor Díaz. BigGames: Urban Games for Big Screens, (2012) developed by Sergio Galán and Víctor...

DITOs project is a pan-european network supported by the European Horizon 2020 program which goal is fostering citizen participation in science through a series of activities around two topics: environmental sustainability and biodesign. Medialab Prado leads the work pacjkage around environmental sustainability. que tiene como objetivo fomentar la participación ciudadana en ciencia a través de una serie de actividades en torno a dos temas: sostenibilidad

Medialab-Prado’s Fablab is a space to experiment with different digital fabrication tools and techniques. In its current location, a former sawmill, Medialab-Prado has a dedicated space designed and equipped specifically for this, with a laser cutter, CNC routers and 3D printers. The Fablab assists different projects, activities and lines of work that need to use it’s facilities and machinery to build prototypes. Interactivos?, Mobiliario OpenSource, Autofabricantes, Funcionamientos, Experimenta Distrito, Grigri Pixel are among the groups and activities that have benefited from the Fablab’s...

The Medialab Prado residency program welcomes artists and researchers who develop projects linked to the laboratories of the center, mentors of the prototyping workshops and speakers of the seminars, as well as the various collaborators who carry out construction work of knowledge around the center. The residences are mainly fixed through collaboration agreements with foundations, embassies, official bodies, institutions and exchanges with other cultural organizations. Within the open, diverse and inclusive program of the residences there are different modalities: - Open calls with the support...

Medialab-Prado’s Fablab is a space to experiment with different digital fabrication tools and techniques. In its current location, a former sawmill, Medialab-Prado has a dedicated space designed and equipped specifically for this, with a laser cutter, CNC routers and 3D printers. The Fablab assists different projects, activities and lines of work that need to use it’s facilities and machinery to build prototypes. Interactivos?, Mobiliario OpenSource, Autofabricantes, Funcionamientos, Experimenta Distrito, Grigri Pixel are among the groups and activities that have benefited from the Fablab’s...

The AVLAB meetings are monthly gatherings of people with common interests in the fields of experimental, electronic and electro-acoustical music, sound art, interactive devices and live audio and video processing in general. The meetings arose out of an idea to offer a physical location for the sharing of knowledge, criticism and opinions about the creation process in these fields. At each session, three or four musicians, DJs, VJs or others are invited to offer a brief conceptual and technical presentation of their work, followed by a practical demonstration. The attendees have the...