Better News for a better world

Better news for a better democracy

Better news is a software platform for crowd-sourcing our news in a new and revolutionary way. The mission is to create a platform where we, the people, can document what is happening around us. And while doing it, have fun and do something to improve our world by improving the quality and...
Resource image Gary Zhexi Zhang

Between the planet and the market: Mapping the climate financial complex

As part of the LAB#01 Medios Sintientes program, Medialab Matadero invites you to participate in the collective research workshop entitled Between the planet and the market: Mapping the climate financial complex, which will be given by artist and writer Gary Zhexi Zhang on April 20, from 5 to 8 pm, in Nave 16 of Matadero Madrid. 

Aimed at journalists, economists, artists, writers, and anyone interested in these issues with basic research skills, the objective of this workshop will be to develop scenarios and intervention strategies, where participants will explore the economics of the

Chip fosil

Beyond Empirical Re-Aesthetics

«This is the collection of the temperature festival, a party that never "occurred", because it was not legal. Maybe there was a botellón, but outside the Matadero Madrid. In any case it is a story of frustration but also of learning. The objective was never the party itself, which was only an excuse...
NOx aka Red Haze Harry

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

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...
Caleiduino

Caleiduino

CALEIDUINO is the first digital & sound reactive kaleidoscope based on ARDUINO.
imagen del pájaro de twitter en lenguaje de porgramación

Call for #tinycode sketches

in collaboration with Medialab Prado and as part of the Processing Community Day @ Madrid 2020 we are glad to announce a

Call for #tinycode sketches

tweet your creative code in less than 256 chars and we will display-it on the media façade at Medialab Prado on saturday, december the 12th.

To participate:

  1. write your code using p5js / processing * in less than 256 chars
  2. make sure that it could work on the 192 by 157 pixels of the media façade
  3. tweet it on your account tagged as #tinycode and don’t forget to mention @CCodeMadrid
  4. if you wish so, publish your code on your web site
CONSULCON

Call for papers for CONSULCON2018

CONSULCON18 is a two days meeting of collaborative and technical conferences around CONSUL, the largest platform for participation in politics of the world. The open call will be open until May 25th.