Facts are not natural occurrences; they are carefully assembled. For a long time, this assembly was anchored in the visible—a photograph, a physical map, or a witness account. Today, however, these forms of evidence exist alongside a new, digital architecture of truth. Deep within this black box, states and corporations manufacture the facts that sustain their imaginaries.

This production relies on a spectrum of material that often remains invisible to the eye: satellite traces that redefine landscapes, credit footprints that determine social mobility, metadata that maps our private

It will be based on the latest research and surveys on the cognitive frameworks (framing) of Spanish citizenship. We will understand: Why are people who are not intolerant attracted to authoritarian discourses? How can this trend be counteracted?

Digital strategies and tactics used successfully in other similar international contexts will be used.

Methodologies will be used in the workshop that will favor collective intelligence.

On March  21 and 22  (Wednesday and Thursday) we held the final and closing meeting of the Laboratory for Innovation in Public Procurement working group at Medialab-Prado in Madrid  . After five months of multidisciplinary and open collaboration between  public sector professionals ,  contracting experts ,  representatives of the academy ,  social groups  and  citizens in their own  capacity to define a more transparent model of public contracting, we want to close this activity with a  double day with experts National and international in contracting transparency and in monitoring risks and

In collaboration with the Flemish Ministry of Culture, the Residency program of Medialab Prado is hosting Anaïs Berck.

Anaïs Berck is an alias that exists since September 2019. The name stands for a collaboration between humans, algorithms and trees. As a collective Anais Berck opens up a space in which human intelligence is explored in the company of plant intelligence and artificial intelligence. For this project, Anaïs Berck is represented by the human beings An Mertens, Gijs de Heij (http://osp.kitchen/) and Loren Britton (https://www.lorenbritton.com/). The residency involves the trees

Schedule

• 17h / 17.15h  Presentation of the objectives of the day.

• 5pm / 6.15pm  Researching public procurement : sources of information, key concepts, regulatory considerations, main barriers and practical examples -from  public works contracts  to the  acquisition of vaccines -. By  Eva Belmonte , laboratory coordinator and project manager at  Civio .

• 6.15pm / 6.30pm  Break

• 18: 30h / 19.30h Presentation  of cases:

• • This is how we analyze public contracts in the  immigration control industry . By  Virginia Rodríguez , research