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Bram Dewolfs' Residency (Brussels)

 A Toolkit for Urban Pedagogy, Sustainability Education and (Young) Citizen's Participation in light of the 2030 Agenda.

In collaboration with the Flemish Ministry of Culture, the Residency program of Medialab-Prado is hosting Bram Dewolfs. Bram, living and working in Brussels, is an urban activist, civic designer, placemaker and education expert. In 2014 he co-founded Urban Foxes, an NGO striving for healthy, inclusive and co-creative cities.

C.O.S.O

The C.O.S.O is a module that allows bicycle users to gather information on the status of the surface of the street as the go through it. The C.O.S.O is made of a controller (such as Arduino or Raspberry Pi), an accelerometer, a power source and some LED lights. This package is mounted on a case and...

Democratic Cities: rethinking the future of cities and social transformation

The Democratic Cities international meeting reaches its third edition. On this occasion, Ciudades Democráticas is a joint effort of the cities of Madrid and Barcelona to rethink the future of the city from the prism of citizen participation.

Madrid kicks off with Democratic Cities programming on November 23 in Medialab Prado, with six panels that address the future of participation, random democracy, deliberation processes and the phenomenon of fake news, among other issues. For its part, Barcelona closed the Democratic Cities meeting on November 28, with four panels.

Between 23 and 28, both

El Aire Tiene Peso: We talk about the air with Javier Cruz

Su investigación plantea un acercamiento a la idea del aire como sujeto político cuestionando el modo en el que su representación, estetizada y romantizada, ha contaminado el imaginario colectivo. Los atardeceres digitales que nos han acompañado cada ocaso desde el 23 de abril, culminan el 25 de mayo con esta mesa redonda para reflexionar en común y hablar del aire con una nueva perspectiva. Al mismo tiempo, este ocaso abre paso a una nueva etapa de encuentros con artistas, científicas/os y pensadores/as que de un modo u otro se han acercado a la idea del aire como un recurso común y un medio

Final presentation of the artists Bram Dewolfs' results of his residency

During my residency here at Medialab Prado, I had the great opportunity to meet a range of inspiring cultural mediators and collaborators. It was thanks to their input and feedback that my project evolved in the way it did. I started out not 100% knowing what I wanted to develop as for me projects are always a dialogue between different people and organizations. I had a few options that I wanted to develop one way or another. After talking to Silvia Teixeira López about her project Satélites DIY: Estudiemos la Atmósfera de Madrid, an idea started to form. As I liked the way Silvia approached

INFRAESTRUCTOURS by Mario Santamaria: Energy

Cities are crisscrossed by a multitude of flows that constantly reorder their material reality. They are organisms whose in/stability depends on a tangle of systems that guarantee certain levels of mobility, food, energy and care. Power plants, distribution lines, sewers, protocols, regulations, antennas, landfills, sensors and purifiers organize the city in a veiled way. This activity proposes a series of guided tours designed to traverse the infrastructural landscape of the city of Madrid.

The aim of the sessions is to explore the ways in which these flows function and how they relate to

INFRAESTRUCTOURS by Mario Santamaria: Waste

Cities are crisscrossed by a multitude of flows that constantly reorder their material reality. They are organisms whose in/stability depends on a tangle of systems that guarantee certain levels of mobility, food, energy and care. Power plants, distribution lines, sewers, protocols, regulations, antennas, landfills, sensors and purifiers organize the city in a veiled way. This activity proposes a series of guided tours designed to traverse the infrastructural landscape of the city of Madrid.

The aim of the sessions is to explore the ways in which these flows function and how they relate to