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OpenSystems to participate in the Venice Architecture Biennale 2020

The Catalan project for the Venice Architecture Biennale 2020, curated by Olga Subirós, vindicates the role of architects in the new ways of thinking and mapping cities with the climate crisis context. The installation of AIRE / ARIA / AIR, consists of a narrow corridor evocative of urban morphology in which air pollution will become visible and evident. Several groups, artists and studios collaborate in this project, among which, OpenSystems with xAire, a participated sampling of the concentration of nitrogen dioxide in the air.

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Talking about citizen science with Barcelona Science and Technology Studies Group (STS-b) and AQuAS

The seminar “Citizen and Social Science: experiences and reflections”, given by Anna Cigarini and Josep Perelló from OpenSystems, gathers twenty attendees from Barcelona Science and Technology Studies Group (STS-b), which includes representatives from UAB and UOC. During the presentation, several citizen science projects promoted by OpenSystems are presented and debated. This seminar is organized jointly by STS-b and the Catalan Agency for Health Quality and Evaluation (AQuAS).

CCCBLab article: transforming scientific essays into common experiences

German artist Joseph Beuys once said that only art has a true revolutionary and evolutionary power. Forceful and provocative, this statement may be debated from many disciplines, especially from science. But precisely because to transform is about cooperating and not competing, the article “Citizen science and the arts” exposes a series of projects that approach science and art. Bringing together the creativity and insubordination of art with scientific perseverance and rigor produces a new path towards a reflexive citizen science full of common experiences in the public space.

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Student Ferran Larroya defends his degree final project

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.

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STEMForYouth

Citizen science: education and research

Establishing new links between Citizen Science and Service-Learning

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.

Citizen Science in Action

Citizen Science in Action: last working session with librarians

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.

Citizen Science in Action

Granollers’ promoting group analyses the gathered data

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.

Citizen Science in Action

Olesa de Montserrat’s promoting group analyses the gathered data

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.

CCCBLab article: Power to the people! (through science as well)

In a society that increasingly questions traditional power systems, new ways of doing arise: bottom-up, community-based and willing to return to citizens their capacities and responsibilities. Citizen science stands as an alternative to the usual research method and calls for the active and rigorous participation of neighbors. The article “Citizen science and social change” collects experiences of collective data mapping, where community contribution has been necessary to promote social transformations and even to demonstrate and denounce environmental and political malpractices.

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Citizen Science in Action

Granollers hosts the last intervention in the public space

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.

Citizen Science in Action

Fort Pienc’s promoting group analyses the gathered 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.

Neighborhood water

Josep Janés public library shows the collaborative mural

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.

Citizen Science in Action

More than 160 residents of Olesa participate in "Games for housing"

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.

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Out to the street: "Games for Housing" takes the Fort Pienc square

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.

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CCCBLab article: Towards a new model of public library

Libraries to monitor racial discrimination; libraries to investigate about climate change; libraries to influence on new housing policies, etc. In the midst of the current debate on what role libraries should play, the article “Citizen Science and Public Libraries” gathers several international experiences on new models of generation of collaborative scientific knowledge and strengthening of social cohesion. Libraries are transgenerational and cross-cultural spaces that meet the right conditions to become community hubs for citizen science.

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CCCBLab publishes several articles on Citizen Science by OpenSystems

The CCCB’s research and culture innovation laboratory, CCCBLab, publishes several articles written by the OpenSystems team about the importance of citizen science, not only as a method of scientific research but also as an element of social cohesion and community creation. “Citizen Science and social change”, “Citizen Science and Public Libraries” and “Citizen Science and the Arts” offer an extended reading on experiences of this type in several places of the world.

Citizen Science in Action

Citizen science reaches public libraries

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.

Citizen Science in Action

“Jocs per l’Habitatge”: science for social concerns

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.

Neighborhood water

Turning the Neighborhood Water experience into a collaborative mural

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.

Citizen Science in Action

Last meeting with librarians before putting science on the street

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!

consCIÈNCIES a la plaça

Presenting and debating the results of Plaça Orfila

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.

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We repeat at the plaza Orfila and in the Calidoscopi festival

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.

Neighborhood water

A card game to interpret scientific data

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.

We participate in the II Conference of Research Data of the UB

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.

Neighborhood water

Ítaca's youngsters take scientific research out to the street

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.

Citizen Science in Action

The users of the Can Pedrals and Roca Umbert libraries of Granollers work in the design of the intervention in the public space

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.

Citizen Science in Action

The motor group of the Fort Pienc Library proposes their research questions

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.

Citizen Science in Action

The Olesa de Montserrat Library hosts the first session of co-creation of the citizen science project

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.

Citizen Science in Action

First session of the Laboratory of Citizen Science

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.

Citizen Science in Action

Primera sessió de Ciència i Acció Ciutadana

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.

Citizen Science in Action

We officially launch the 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.

Games x Mental Health

We leave open the data of our article in Scientific Reports

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.

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Games x Mental Health

Quantitative account of social interactions in a mental health care ecosystem: cooperation, trust and collective action

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.

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Presentation of the collective action xAire within the program of the Mobile Week

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.

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We install more than 800 tubes to measure NO2 throughout Barcelona

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.

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European COST Action on Citizen Science

Connecting Technologies for the Social Good workshop organised by COST Association and CAPS community

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.

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STEMForYouth

Co-creation workshop for replicating a citizen science experiment in Poland

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.

We contribute to the Plan for the Impulse and Consolidation of citizen science

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.

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Training session of the xAir experiment

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.

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European COST Action on Citizen Science

Workshop on knowledge based on participation and learning in citizen science

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.

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beepath

We present at the III edition of City and University meeting

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.

Games x Mental Health

We held a new work session in Girona

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.

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Games x Mental Health

40 people play before a calçotada

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.

Games x Mental Health

Pastries and games at Mental Health Sabadell

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.

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European COST Action on Citizen Science

Second meeting to start working together

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.

Barcelona Citizen Science Office

We celebrate again the Citizen Science Day

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.

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We participate in a big event about Culture and Citizenship

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.

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Games x Mental Health

The World Mental Health Day launches our new gaming platform

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!

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OpenSystems is presented in Korea

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.

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We present in Open Science for an Open Society CCS2016 satellite

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.

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We are invited to Kreyon workshop

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?

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Human Behaviour

Our recent collective experiments on climate action presented in Science and Technology by other means conference

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.

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Our pop-up experimental approach in Science and Technology by other means conference

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.

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Human Behaviour

Data from our PLoS ONE paper is freely available

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.

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Human Behaviour

Our paper in Plos ONE is out!

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.

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Human Behaviour

Our research is been published in Science Advances

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

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Bee-Path experience in schools are presented in the SIS conference

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.

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We participate in the STATPHYS 26 congress

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.

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Our new research paper is been published by Royal Society Open Science

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.

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Last session in the Postgraduate in Entrepreneurship, Creativity, and Interdisciplinary and Innovation processes

We talked about participatory processes and crowdsourcing in a postgraduate addressed to managers of cultural projects, public administration, service industry.

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We participate in the Summer School Management of Creativity in an Innovation Society

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.

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We participate in the 6th Summer School of the Public Security Institute of Catalonia

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.

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STEMForYouth

Kick-off meeting of the project in Warsaw

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.

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Citizen science: education and research

Citizen science sets foot in schools

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]

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Citizen science: education and research

beepath

mSchools hosts a Bee-Path presentation

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.

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Human Behaviour

Presenting public experiments to ECSA conference

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.

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Barcelona Citizen Science Office

We explain the case of Barcelona at the session Citizen Science Studies of the ECSA conference

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.

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We participate in the first European Citizen Science Conference

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.

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We contribute to Demonstrating Success panel in ECSA 2016

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.

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Self-Sufficient Building

Last session in the Self- Sufficient Buildings Studio 2016

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.

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Sistemes oberts

1418 room is visiting us

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].

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Sistemes oberts

We build an urban garden (I)

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].

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Human Behaviour

More than 530 individuals participate in the Dr Brain experiment

Exceed the wildest expectations! More than 7,500 decisions been collected to study rationality in various situations. Thank you all![IN CATALAN]

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Human Behaviour

Doctor Brain, the main character for the experiment at DAU 2014

The new game investigates player’s decisions and establishes a diagnosis for each participant. Players will receive preliminary results by e-mail.

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We participate in the international conference Arts Matters

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.

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Barcelona Citizen Science Office

Summary of our contribution in Creative Distruction

Relatograma – Draw&Research Method synthesized the event and our participation through cartoons. Includes great lecture by Antonio Lafuente.

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Barcelona Citizen Science Office

Presenting our citizen science in Creative Destruction

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]

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Barcelona Citizen Science Office

Participatory science at Interactivos' 14

The symposium Medialab-Prado Madrid assembles different perspectives around the collective. We present Bee-Path, Mr Banks and the Citizen Science Office.

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We participate at The Cold Web event

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.

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We run a session at the research Master on Art and Design

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.

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Sistemes oberts

Citizen Science and participatory art

The session presents several citizen science projects in relation to education. Narcís Prat presents Riu.NET while Jordina Belmonte presents Urban Flora and Allergies.

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Barcelona Citizen Science Office

Collectivity on Tres14 TV programme

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.

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We participate in the "Jornades de Divulgación Innovadora"

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.

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Sistemes oberts

Welcome to the new edition of the course Sistemes Oberts

The coordinators Yolanda Jolis (MACBA) and Josep Perelló (OpenSystems) stresses the relationship between art, science and participation.

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Video from the Granollers Digital 2014

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.

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Citizen Science Day inside the Science Festival

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.

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beepath

Bee-Path in Vimeo

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.

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Barcelona Citizen Science Office

The Citizen Science Office at a CCCB exhibition

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.

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Barcelona Citizen Science Office

Presenting in the Barcelona Big Data Week

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]

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Post in CCCBLAB blog

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.

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Urban bees

Workshop Urban Bees 2.0 in Hangar

Within the project Socientize, we organize a workshop to share experiences with Helsinki and Bordeaux. Mar Canet and Varvara Guljajeva will be the facilitators.

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Barcelona Citizen Science Office

We received a RecerCaixa grant for two years for a Citizen Science project

The grant awards funds best scientific research projects Catalonia aiming to be socially transformative.

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Self-Sufficient Building

Physics of Particles for IaaC Studio 2014

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.

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Airwells

Undergraduate Final Project presentation

Helena Andrés has presented very successful Undergraduate Final Project entitled Structural Optimization for Dew-Condensers using Computational Fluid Dynamics.

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Human Behaviour

Mr. Banks appears in the video of the Festival DAU

DAU Barcelona Festival 2013 organizers’ includes our experiment in the video summary of this great creative party of board games.

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Human Behaviour

Interview in Ràdio4 for the Mr. Banks experiment

The Observatory Ràdio4 directed and presented by Anna Bañeres interviews Josep Perelló and talks about collective experiments by Barcelona Lab. [IN CATALAN]

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Human Behaviour

New social experiment at DAU Festival

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).

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First session at Master in Research in Art and Design

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.

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We participate in ICT ART Connect in Brussels at EU Parliament and at IMAL

The workshop brought together ICT specialists and artists to collaboratively work. The results were presented at the European Parliament on 11th November.

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We participate in the creation of the European Citizen Sicence Association

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.

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Presentation of the book Sinergia. New Frontiers of Science, Art and Thought

After 9 editions, we have invited scientsts Ricard Solé, Oscar Vilarroya, and Jorge Wagensberg to reflect on the synergy between art and science.

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Sistemes oberts

UB Press Release of the project Sistemes Oberts 2013

The OpenSystems Research Group at the UB and the Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona (MACBA) put up the new edition of the project.

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Sistemes oberts

Sistemes Oberts 2013, registration open

New course offering teachers the opportunity to explore and examine hybridization and convergence between artistic and scientific practices. [IN CATALAN/SPANISH]

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Urban bees

Our Urban Bees project is been selected by Socientize

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.

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Barcelona Citizen Science Office

Workshop at gutenberg Campus of Communication and Scientific Culture 2013

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?

Human Behaviour

First results from DAU in ECCS'13 congress

We analyze the results from the iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma experiment for different age groups. While children have changeable behaviour, elderly present persistent strategies.

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Urban bees

TEDxRambles 2013 video

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.

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Summer School Management of Creativity in an Innovation Society

We present “Arts, science, research” at Fabra i Coats (Barcelona). School co-organised by MosaiC (HEC Montréal) and Chair of Entrepreneurship (UB).

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Urban bees

TEDxRambles: We are bees thus we exist

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.

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beepath

New experiment at the Festival of Sicence and Technology 2013

During this year we want to know how do you move when you look for objects. What searching strategies do you use?

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Barcelona Citizen Science Office

Citizen science space at the Festival of Sicence and Tehnology 2013

Come and meet our citizen science initiatives, join them, and suggests new experiments. 15 and 16 June 2013 at the Parc de la Ciutadella.

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Urban bees

We have been invited to participate in TEDxRambles 2013

The theme: science, technology and consciousness. We need to alphabetize and illustrate ourselves on techno-scientific issues to make critical judgments.

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Airwells

Grant. Deadline 21st of June

We have opened a 9-months grant to work in a multidisciplinar research project with architects to study the uptake of water by condensation.

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Els Juliols course

Register!

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.

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Sistemes oberts

Sistemes Oberts, last session

Last sessions of Sistemes Oberts took place on 8th and 10th April. 16 centres involved, 600 students and 8 very interesting projects. Good job!

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Barcelona Citizen Science Office

Talk in Lost Objects series

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]

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Science Visions

Getting ready the show

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.

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Sistemes oberts

Second session of Sistemes Oberts

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]

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Urban bees

Kick off of the Urban Bees project

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.

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Talk at the Reality Creation Kit workshop at La Porta

A multidisciplinary group is been invited to re-invent reality, creating a collective escape. Our talk: “Diffracted matter and other stories from Quantum Mechanics”.

Linking science and arts: Intimate science, shared spaced and living

We aim to move beyond the idea of art as a tool for communicating science, towards a truly interdisciplinary practice.

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