Physics’ student Ferran Larroya defends his degree final project on human mobility and citizen science, based on Beepath. Larroya, member of the OpenSystems group, has worked with data collected from various schools in Barcelona and its metropolitan area. He has studied main pedestrian mobility patterns when students go to school.
More than 50 participants debate on the links between Citizen Science and Service-learning as methods of experiential education and civic responsibility. Scientists, pedagogues and resource centers and companies’ staff analyze how these two disciplines can establish collaborations to improve and learn from each other. On this matter, Josep Perelló explains his vision about Citizen Science and the results of the Recercaixa project, Isabelle Bonhoure shows the StemForYouth project and Salva Ferré, from Eduscopi, presents an introduction of the Beepath project.
The last session of the Citizen Science Laboratory brings together library professionals from 23 municipalities of the Diputació de Barcelona. Together, we debate on opportunities and challenges that come up with the new idea of converting libraries into community hubs and spaces for the promotion of citizen science.
New data to analyze and interpret comes out from each intervention in the street. The city of Granollers, with two public libraries and more than 60,000 inhabitants, analyzes and connects the data obtained in order to generate new proposals on access to housing.
Geographic and demographic particularities of each context condition the interpretation of the obtained data. For this reason, the analysis is done with the cooperation of the local agents that have driven and co-designed the action, like today in Olesa de Montserrat, with a very busy and participatory closing session.
The “Games for Housing” installation, placed in Maluquer i Salvador square, in the city center of Granollers, invites residents and neighbors to participate. Throughout the whole day, up to 156 people will take part of the game. This is the last station of these set of interventions on public space. Next stop is to be evaluate and interpret the obtained data.
In this last session with Fort Pienc Library’s promoting group, in Barcelona, the results of the intervention in the public space during May 31st are detailed and analysed. They interpret the gathered data based on their first-hand knowledge on the neighbourhood’s reality.
The closing action of Neighborhood Water consists of hanging the collaborative mural made during the previous session, in a public and visible place such as the Josep Janés public library. The mural remains as a witness of the process, contributes to give visibility to the project, to bring science closer to citizens and also serves as a reference point for all the young people who have participated in it.
The citizen science intervention “Games for Housing” receives the participation of more than 160 neighbours of Olesa de Montserrat. Throughout the day, it is scheduled as one of the many activities of the local Mostra d’Entitats, a space that gathers cultural, social and sports associations of the municipality and has a large influx of public.
The Fort Pienc library square, in the Eixample district of Barcelona, is the first venue to hold the open-to-public phase of “Games for Housing”. Throughout the whole day, several groups of six people participate in a game that tests the individual and collective behavior in relation to access and pricing of housing in the neighborhood.
To conceive libraries as community hubs, as generators of knowledge among neighbors, and to convert librarians into facilitators of these new interactions; this is one of the aims of the program Ciència Ciutadana en Acció, in which the public libraries of Barcelona-Fort Pienc, Olesa de Montserrat and Granollers take part. The project is part of the BiblioLab program, of the Municipal Libraries Network of the Diputació de Barcelona.
Difficulties in accessing decent housing is a topic that worries users and professionals of the three libraries that are part of the Ciència Ciutadana en Acció project. Therefore, this topic has been prioritized and turned into an interactive game. “Jocs per l’Habitatge” is a collective experiment that asks for contributions from neighbors. The program wants to open up to other social issues and concerns.
Graphic recording is a communication tool used to translate activities, conferences and processes into attractive and visual presentations. Neighborhood Water has the collaboration of Carlotta Cataldi, a professional in this discipline, who helps to design a mural that summarizes the spirit of the entire project. The execution of the mural is totally collaborative, after some brief and effective lessons in calligraphy and drawing taught by the same Cataldi.
We have agreed to several design and logistics details. We have done user experience tests on the Games for Housing platform and reviewed the texts with librarians, including the contributions of the motor groups of each municipality. Everything ready to get science out on the street!
Within the framework of the Calidoscopi Cultural festival and in the community center Can Clariana, we have explained the research and presented the results of what happened in Plaça Orfila. We also analyzed it with the public, making it a part of the research process.
We come back to a plaza. In this case we spend there an afternoon and we visit three characters: Alex, Raquel and Sandra. 36 people participate (60% women) and the data is added to the one that we already have accumulated in the three other plazas of Barcelona.
Explaining and interpreting the scientific data obtained can be done in a participatory and playful way. A deck of cards designed by the team of OpenSystems and Carlotta Cataldi serves as a game to show the results obtained, relate them and interpret them together. The project Aigua de Barri promotes co-creation from the beginning.
The postdoctoral researcher Julián Vicens and member of OpenSystems presents the collection of data from our citizen science projects through the Citizen Social Lab digital platform.
After four sessions of work and co-creation with OpenSystems and Museu de les Aigües, Itaca’s youngsters go out to the street to ask: How would you react if one day, when waking up there was no water? With this base question, we have elaborated a survey and a game. 126 neighbors of Collblanc-La Torrassa agree to participate and they collectively respond through electronic tablets. Their answers will serve to extract scientific data on the way the inhabitants of this neighborhood make use of and value water.
We already have a good list of questions that we want to respond. In this third stage, we must define the ways in which we will address these questions and how we will build a digital platform to collect relevant data from neighbors: through a simulated situation and related to their opinions, perceptions and reflections.
Having agreed with the three municipalities that collective research will focus on access to housing, it is now necessary to specify the research questions that we want to answer and start thinking about what we want to measure.
About 20 people participate in this session and constitute the local motor group. We are dedicated to defining the concern that neighbors and neighbors would like to respond with a collective research agreed with the three municipalities.
Hands-on sessions begin. 26 professionals from different libraries in the Barcelona district participate in the Laboratory in order to find and choose citizen science projects and imagine library-friendly activities.
The three municipalities chosen are Granollers, Olesa de Montserrat and Barcelona (Fort Pienc). The professionals of the libraries are accompanied by representatives from the respective municipalities. The objective is to co-create with neighbors a citizen science project.
We make an introductory session of citizen science at the Francesca Bonnemaison Library and more than sixty library professionals have attended. Now, the libraries must apply to participate in the programs Citizen Science Laboratory or in Science and Citizen Action.
All the experimental sessions were carried out in the infrastructures provided by the Catalan Federation of Mental Health, including World Mental Health Day (October 8, 2016). We document: collective risk game, prisoner’s dilemma and trust game.
Scientific Reports publishes our scientific research reporting evidences that reinforces the idea of community social capital, with caregivers and professionals playing a leading role. Yet, the cost of collective action is mainly supported by individuals with a mental condition – which unveils their vulnerability.
The Sant Martí School and Jaume Targa from 4sfera accompany us in the first public presentation of this action at the Disseny Hub Barcelona. More than 1,500 people from all over Barcelona participated in the action of February 16.
Students of 20 primary schools of the 10 districts of the city together with their respective families participate in this collective action that allows to put an unprecedented number of diffusion tubes in Barcelona.
We participate in this workshop that showcases results obtained so far and offers a forum to exchange knowledge and experience on future research developments and funding opportunities.
28 students of a high-school of Sokołów Podlaski have co-designed a citizen science experiment for social change at the Centre for Innovation and Technology Transfer Management of the Politechnika Warszawska. Main theme chosen is the use of public space.
Together with thirty experts, we participated in the third and last meeting of the State Plan for the Promotion and Consolidation of Citizen Science, promoted by Ibercivis and FECYT in Zaragoza.
We met with a hundred representatives of families and teachers coming from schools of the 10 districts of Barcelona for the collective measure of NO2 concentration throughout the city. Carolyn Daher (ISGlobal), Jaume Targa (4 sphere) and Maria Alonso (Mapping for Change) were presenting.
We participate in this first attempt to create a roadmap to work in the intersection between citizen science and education. We met more than 20 experts coming from a wide variety of European countries.
Enric Sanmartí presents our recent work with the community center Centre Cívic Pere Quart and elder people. The meeting discusses with citizens academic projects that improves social inclusion.
Fundació Drissa welcomes us so that 60 people can play in groups of 6 people. The Fundació is a non-profit organization that works on the labor integration of people with mental health problems.
We travel to Valls to play together with professional caregivers, relatives and people with health condition. We do it before a calçotada open to all community.
The new working session is carried out at the headquarters of the Mental Health Sabadell Association of Family members of people with mental condition (non-profit) who work voluntarily to improve the quality of life of people with mental disorders and their relatives.
The different working groups has focussed on different aspects: data, education, policy-making and engagement. We focus on the synthesis and the overarching perspective of the whole project.
Being coordinators of the Barcelona Citizen Science Office, we have organised the third edition of the Barcelona Citizen Science Day. More than 30 different projects have been presented in a community center of the city.
The Spanish Ministry of Culture organizes a big event facing actions and policies on culture which are identified in the territory. We participate in the round table focussed on experimentation and innovation in eccentric contexts.
After more than a year of work with all stakeholders in the world of mental health, more than a hundred participants play and they delivered the first data set to our research. Thank you all!
We have been invited to PAMS Festival 2016 in order to build bridges between participated research of OpenSystems and the arts. Our presentation encourages the understanding of participation as a performative experience.
The meeting addresses socio-technical and organizational challenges associated with the mainstream establishment of open, self-organized science in society. We present our recent paper linking citizen science and computational social science.
This one-day workshop addresses fundamental questions about how people express their creativity and innovate both at the individual and collective levels. Our plenary talk focus on How creative, participatory and innovation strategies can improve the quality of scientific research?
Research in the wild for the city and with the citizens: The climate game and other actions is the title of our talk in the Urban Climate Experiment: A Para-Site track. Session explores collective urban experiments challenging the normalization of climate change in the city.
Pop-up, collective, public and urban experiments: New ways of understanding Computational Social Science Research presents our experience in bridging gap between computational social science and the open science philosophy in the Open Science in Practice track.
Zenodo is a research data repository created by OpenAIRE and CERN to provide a place for researchers to deposit datasets. Our records report volunteers’ market direction guesses from our game Mr Banks and being used in our PLoS ONE paper.
Gutiérrez-Roig M, Segura C, Duch J, Perelló J (2016) Market Imitation and Win-Stay Lose-Shift Strategies Emerge as Unintended Patterns in Market Direction Guesses. PLoS ONE 11(8): e0159078.
Julia Poncela-Casasnovas, Mario Gutiérrez-Roig, Carlos Gracia-Lázaro, Julian Vicens, Jesús Gómez-Gardeñes, Josep Perelló, Yamir Moreno, Jordi Duch and Angel Sánchez, Humans display a reduced set of consistent behavioral phenotypes in dyadic games, Science Advances 05 Aug 2016: Vol. 2, no. 8, e1600451
Building urban experiments on human mobility with Secondary Schools is the title of our communication in the First Conference of Social Impact on Science which was held in the Universitat de Barcelona. First results evaluating or simply reporting the experience were presented by Pol Colomer-Simón, from Dribia Research.
We present “Langevin dynamics and Entropy analysis for studying human movement and human actions” in the 26th IUPAP International conference on Statistical Physics. More than 1,200 attendees participate in this majour event in Statistical Physics.
Gutiérrez-Roig M, Sagarra O, Oltra A, Palmer JRB, Bartumeus F, Díaz-Guilera A, Perelló J. 2016 Active and reactive behaviour in human mobility: the influence of attraction points on pedestrians. R. Soc. open sci.3: 160177.
We talked about participatory processes and crowdsourcing in a postgraduate addressed to managers of cultural projects, public administration, service industry.
We present “Research in the wild: Public, participatory and collective experiments” in the Roca Gallery. The summer school is organized by HEC Montréal and Enterpreneurship Chair of the Universitat de Barcelona.
The Summer School ended the academic year with a few days of meeting and learning outside the classroom, where the exchange of experiences, the contribution of experts and the debate can foster collaborative networks among professionals of public security, private sector and citizens.
A two-day meeting allowed all partners to get together and open up the project and its work plan jointly with European Commission representatives. Our kick-off meeting took place in the capital of Poland, the location of the project coordinating institute, the Politechnic University of Warsaw.
This post by Josep Perelló reports the closing event of the Recercaixa project in Cosmocaixa last 5th of May 2016. The text gives credit to all schools and all citizen science projects that have participated in an open call pilot project phase Citizen Science at Schools during winter 2015/2016. [IN SPANISH]
Teachers Carlos Giménez (Sant Gabriel, Viladecans), Eva Mateo, Carmen Olivares and Olga Montañá (Enric Borràs, Badalona), Josep López and Miquel Molinas (Regina Carmeli, Barcelona) and the researcher Pol Colomer (UB and Dribia) present with us the experience in schools to teachers audience.
Julián Vicens presents in European Citizen Science Conference some results about the experience of volunteers in our public experiments through games and inside festivals of the city of Barcelona. Slides available here.
We present the communication “A brief story of the Barcelona Citizen Office: community of practice, the rules of governance, and the connection with citizens and public administration .” We explain the Recercaixa project with schools and the Citizen Science Office with the Barcelona Council.
We are very proud to be present in this first edition with over 350 participants. We are eager to share experiences to all countries in Europe and we few representatives from Australia, United States and Israel.
Honoured to participate to the plenary session jointly with Arnold van Vliet (Natuurkalender Netherlands), Daniel Dörler (citizenscience.at), Doreen Walther (Mosquito Atlas), Louise Francis (Mapping for change). We talked about OpenSystems public experimentation and the role of arts in citizen science.
Today we finished our mentoring at the Master of Advanced Architecture. The projects have been situated at various places around the planet. Students have integrated biochemical processes of algae, wind power, habitats for protected species or the use of night-day temperature changes in their architectural projects in a creative and multidisciplinary way.
In this session, we receive the artist Fito Conesa, responsible of this activity space for creative from 14 to 18 years old people. Here you can find the post by Cloe Massota for this visit [IN CATALAN].
Hernani Dias from ReFarmTheCity help us to collectively build a small urban garden by reusing materials such as a washing machine. Cloe explains it. [IN CATALAN].
Exceed the wildest expectations! More than 7,500 decisions been collected to study rationality in various situations. Thank you all![IN CATALAN]
The new game investigates player’s decisions and establishes a diagnosis for each participant. Players will receive preliminary results by e-mail.
Josep Perelló is a member of the scientific commitée of this conference held the 11th and 12th December in Barcelona. Chris Salter (Montreal) has been one of the invited speakers.
Relatograma – Draw&Research Method synthesized the event and our participation through cartoons. Includes great lecture by Antonio Lafuente.
We participate in the session A society of the experiment? In this event on new scenarios of social innovation in eTopia center of Zaragoza. [IN SPANISH]
The symposium Medialab-Prado Madrid assembles different perspectives around the collective. We present Bee-Path, Mr Banks and the Citizen Science Office.
To closes the activity program of the Big Bang Data exhibition at the CCCB, a number of experts talk about the challenges and actions in the context of the state of mass suveillance with Big Data.
Master focusses on the theory and practive of art and design. We introduce the concepts of art-and-science, collective experimentation, intimate science and citizen science.
The session presents several citizen science projects in relation to education. Narcís Prat presents Riu.NET while Jordina Belmonte presents Urban Flora and Allergies.
Jointly with Javier Creus, Esteban Moro and Anxo Sánchez, we analyze how new technologies and internet has brought us to an explosion of the collective.
The event in eTopia of Zaragoza is a professional forum to reflect on the most innovative ways to tell science. We share our experience and talk about miscegenations.
The coordinators Yolanda Jolis (MACBA) and Josep Perelló (OpenSystems) stresses the relationship between art, science and participation.
We shortly explain the task of OpenSystems artistic participatory practices where audience has an active role and its relationship with intimate science and collective experimentation concepts.
Together with the Citizen Science Office we organized the first meeting of citizen science projects in Barcelona. 22 projects submitted and more than 100 people registered.
We have ready the Bee-Path video. You can watch the obtained results and its vision for future experiments. Thanks to the great work done by MindTheFilm with interviews and animations.
We organize the series of meetings Citizen Science: the data in our hands in the Beta Station of the Big Bang Data exhibition at the CCCB.
We talk about a transparent knowledge within the relationship between data and citizen science during the official conference at Centre de Cultura Contemporània. [IN CATALAN]
We posted a blog post at CCCBlab titled Citizen Science: Knowledge Takes Power. We introduce notions and visions of citizen science and explain the Citizen Science Office.
Within the project Socientize, we organize a workshop to share experiences with Helsinki and Bordeaux. Mar Canet and Varvara Guljajeva will be the facilitators.
The grant awards funds best scientific research projects Catalonia aiming to be socially transformative.
We give a session on atoms, quantum physics, thermodynamics, and soft matter self-organized systems within the course coordianted by Enric Ruiz-Geli and Cloud9.
Helena Andrés has presented very successful Undergraduate Final Project entitled Structural Optimization for Dew-Condensers using Computational Fluid Dynamics.
DAU Barcelona Festival 2013 organizers’ includes our experiment in the video summary of this great creative party of board games.
The Observatory Ràdio4 directed and presented by Anna Bañeres interviews Josep Perelló and talks about collective experiments by Barcelona Lab. [IN CATALAN]
Mr. Banks, the game of stock market, studies the mechanisms of decision making. The experiment was done in collaboration with Jordi Duch (University Rovira i Virgili).
For 4 hours we discussed about creativity and innovation and the intersection between scientific and artistic research in the Fundació Miró of Barcelona. Organized by EINA.
The workshop brought together ICT specialists and artists to collaboratively work. The results were presented at the European Parliament on 11th November.
Moren than 50 delegates gathered in Brussels to hold talks on the fledgling ECSA and voted to establish committees which will drive the association forward.
After 9 editions, we have invited scientsts Ricard Solé, Oscar Vilarroya, and Jorge Wagensberg to reflect on the synergy between art and science.
The OpenSystems Research Group at the UB and the Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona (MACBA) put up the new edition of the project.
New course offering teachers the opportunity to explore and examine hybridization and convergence between artistic and scientific practices. [IN CATALAN/SPANISH]
Our project and Antimatter (CERN) will become new citizen science experiments in this EU project. We propose to build beehives in Barcelona, Bourdeaux, and Helsinki.
What is it and how to do citizen sicence? The workshop presents the Barcelona Lab projects. Whant to participate? Do we launch a new one?
We analyze the results from the iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma experiment for different age groups. While children have changeable behaviour, elderly present persistent strategies.
The 15 minutes TEDxRambles talk is now available on youtube. “We are bees, thus we exist” speaks of bees but especially of the need to maintain as a sicentist a link with the city and citizens.
We present “Arts, science, research” at Fabra i Coats (Barcelona). School co-organised by MosaiC (HEC Montréal) and Chair of Entrepreneurship (UB).
Will I speak about bees in TEDxRambles the 4th of July at the Centre of Contemporary Culture of Barcelona? Yes, but mostly about the need as a scientist to keep in touch with city and citizens.
During this year we want to know how do you move when you look for objects. What searching strategies do you use?
Come and meet our citizen science initiatives, join them, and suggests new experiments. 15 and 16 June 2013 at the Parc de la Ciutadella.
The theme: science, technology and consciousness. We need to alphabetize and illustrate ourselves on techno-scientific issues to make critical judgments.
We have opened a 9-months grant to work in a multidisciplinar research project with architects to study the uptake of water by condensation.
You can already register to the citizen science course. We show how artistic practices and participation are key to a different way of doing science. It is intended to introduce students to the world of citizen.
Last sessions of Sistemes Oberts took place on 8th and 10th April. 16 centres involved, 600 students and 8 very interesting projects. Good job!
At the Institute of Catalan Studies. Series are coordinated by Alfonso Zarzoso (Museum of the History of Medicine of Catalonia and CEHIC-UAB). We will discuss experiences of art and science in Barcelona.[IN CATALAN]
The Arts Track at DHUB Barcelona a few hours before the opening of the congress. We decide with Álvaro and Roc their disposition and give the final touch with a LED lighting control.
The artist Eugenia Balcells, the curator Eulalia Bosh, the chemist Santiago Alvarez, and teachers Núria Matas and Anna Sala from Escola El Puig will join us this time. [IN CATALAN]
A multidisciplinary team of scientists, beekeepers and artists have built and installed a kit of sensors on a hive from the Castell dels Tres Dragons, in Parc de la Ciutadella.
A multidisciplinary group is been invited to re-invent reality, creating a collective escape. Our talk: “Diffracted matter and other stories from Quantum Mechanics”.
We aim to move beyond the idea of art as a tool for communicating science, towards a truly interdisciplinary practice.
