Souveniring Almost Anything

Photogrammetry, or Structure-from-Motion, is a method of reconstructing the 3D model of an arbitrary object from a series of photographs using a digital camera. This technique can trace, record and represent geometries, textures, and sites both efficiently and relatively inexpensively. In this workshop, participants will learn how to systematically photograph things and the steps of processing digital images into a 3D model with Agisoft's MetaShape and Meshlab.

The workshop is structured in one practical session at Medialab Prado. In the first part of the session, the artist will explain

Staging, technology and magic. Visit to Amazon

What do a 17th-century automaton and a robot in an advanced logistics centre have in common?
 

The public research project El Gesto Digital by Andrea Muniáin and Paula Ramos Mollá, currently in residence at Medialab as part of the Investigación Situada 2026 programme, takes this question as its starting point to explore the historical and contemporary relationships between technology and magic — understanding the magical as an ongoing struggle between concealment and revelation throughout the history of technology.

Andrea Muniáin and Paula Ramos Mollá address these questions through the

Summer Solstice. San Juan LEDista

The Digital Façade of Medialab is like a game boy, but giant. You can program your projects in javascript with P5.js or Three.js using: http://programalaplaza.medialab-prado.es 

Or you can make them with your favorite software by following the documentation that is here:

https://www.medialab-prado.es/noticias/fachada-digital-informacion-tecn…

https://github.com/medialab-prado/RecursosFachada 

Prepara tus visuales de San Juan para la fachada de Medialab-prado

18.00-22.00 Preparación de proyectos. 

  • Expertos y novatos pueden traer de casa sus proyectos o trabajarlos durante

Sun as a new currency

Intro Although solar energy is frequently promoted as a sustainable solution to social problems, the team behind this project recognizes that it is a somewhat idealised and commoditized aspect of this energy and may have unintended consequences. As a team, our goal is to shed light on...

Synergetic Banquet

Starting from the conception of the planet as an interdependent metabolic system, the FONDO collective considers cooking a global operation, and food consumption a terraforming process. What does this mean aesthetically? The Synergetic Banquet will try to materialise some of these ideas through a performative installation, which at the same time gathers ideas and reflections worked on during the week in the program of activities Cooking Earth curated by the collective Black Almanac.

The reduced use of land, the diversification of the origins of our food, the automation of processes and

Synthesis and (co)evolution of minimal forms of intelligence

Contemporary discourse on intelligence often revolves around complexity. We propose to take the opposite extreme: to explore intelligence in its minimal form. We draw inspiration from the field of synthetic biology, which studies the concept of life by engineering new organisms from scratch...

Talk: ‘Collaborative Design of a Transparent and Inclusive Economy of Abundance’

Marcin Jakubowski, Ph.D., Founder, Executive Director. Marcin Jakubowski is the founder of Open Source Ecology, an open collaborative of engineers, producers, and builders developing the Global Village Construction Set (GVCS). The GVCS is a set of 50 most important machines that it takes for modern life to exist – everything from a tractor, to an oven, to a circuit maker. Marcin and his team are producing open source blueprints – so that anyone can build and maintain machines at a fraction of what it costs today. His goal is to create a life size LEGO set of powerful, self-replicating

Taller ELECTRONICS UNCHAINED: FAIRPHONE'S URBAN MINING WORKSHOP

Cell phones are full of different metals. In particular copper, aluminum, iron and nickel, but also gold, silver, tantalum, mercury, lead and a few dozen other ones.

Miquel Ballester, Co-founder and resource efficiency manager at Fairphone will facilitate this workshop and explain how Fairphone is addressing, tackling and solving one step at a time the problems related to the responsible sourcing of this materials, as well as how to reuse and recycle them. Through this interactive workshops you will learn more about the topic in an interactive way and  get to know your phones from the