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La Tabacalera, foto de Gemma Segura
La Tabacalera de Lavapiés
Llevo meses estudiando por cuenta propia sobre creatividad e innovación social, particpé de un taller del laboratorio del procomum de Medialab, otro de YP en La Casa Encendida, bajé unos cuando textos de la web, me apunté a listas de grupos. Pero ahora encontré algo en lo cual quiero meterme. Liarme de verdad.
Se trata de La Tabacalera: Centro Social Autogestionado en la antigua fábrica de tabacos de Lavapiés.
Os invito a acceder a nuestra web (si, ya le llamo cariñosamente “nuestra”, simplemente porque empiezo a sentirme parte de ella). También puedes apuntarte a la lista de correos para enterarte de todo:
Puedes ver más fotos en Flick.r, en los blogs Capturando la Tabacalera y Fotos Tabacalera.
Another highlight from the PIC NIC Young Festival was the presentation of Paulo Hartmann, of the MobileFest – International Festival of Mobile Art and Creativity.
This is a festival that develops intercultural dialogue through cross country and over-seas activities using mobile technology.
An example? The Global Gincana. Kids in Brazil design an educational game (like treasure hunting) for dutch teenagers to play - and vice-versa. Using GPS and mobile phones, they play at the same time (there was a video conference too), interchanging cultural information and having fun.
The MobileFest is based in São Paulo, Brazil, but they work with organizations and festivals all over the world. They also develop lectures, presentations, collaborative projects, debates, workshops, labs, seminars and all sorts of activities to engage youngsters in subjects such as environmental and social issues, education, health, Human Rights, globalization, art, democracy, among others.
AMAZING.
One of the highlights of the PIC NIC Young was the presentation of the VPRO’s Beagle Project.
As they explain it their website:
The Beagle project reconstructs Darwin’s 5-year long voyage on the HMS Beagle in the course of one year, and makes an attempt to assess where the world stands today in light of Darwin’s evolution theory. As Charles Darwin pondered on the origin of species, our focus now is on the future: Do we have reason to worry?
Our VPRO-Beagle ship the Clipper Stad Amsterdam is an experiment in itself. This three mast sailing ship is rigged with advanced scientific measurement equipment. Scientists from various disciplines and from all over the world execute experiments on board this sailing science lab. The ship also has a built-in TV studio from which parts of the series are produced and broadcast.
Beagle takes viewers on a journey across magnificent landscapes, vulnerable regions, endangered areas and adventurous locations, stretching from Patagonia to the South Pacific, and from Australia to St. Helena.
In short, VPRO is a public dutch broadcaster always engaged in interesting cultural projects. The cool thing about Beagle is that has strong interactive components. All scientific findings made during the journey can be closely watched on VPRO’s Beagle website, and are broadcast by both radio and television; personal journals and video logs about life on board are made by the producers, the sailing crew, and by guests (that include artists, writers, activists, and more) on board. These are updated on a daily basis. Besides that, the project has strong presence in social media networks, such as Facebook.
And there’s more! Sarah Darwin, Darwin’s great great granddaughter is involved in the project. Yep!
Right now, they are in Brazil. Check out some photos they’ve made in Rio:
A truly interactive international intercultural ecologic cross media project. Could it be any cooler?
My dream job is to be involved in something like that!!
*Beagle at Facebook, Twitter, Flickr and Youtube.
* More about VPRO at Wikipedia, their website and Twitter.
