New year, new platforms!

Author: ilamandarina in General on 01 Jan 2010 | no comments

These last days have been very intense. Just before Christmas, I attended the Symposium Me, you and everybody we know is a curator in Amsterdam. Speakers participated from all corners, such as Bruce Sterling, Mieke Gerritzen, Rick Poynor, Andrew Keen ... Of which I would highlight my presentations Sarah Cook, Willem Velthoven of Mediamatic, Aram Bartholl and Dagan Cohen, whom we explained how to revive the cinema thanks to Youtube. The truth is that it was an interesting meeting. If you have wanted to know more, I made a short summary of the discussions on the blog Expolab The new exhibition project in which I am currently working.

Building my first visit to Amsterdam, I went to see the science museum in the city, the Nemo . This museum is housed in a very unique building that simulates a large green boat, which was designed by architect Renzo Piano. I found a very complete museum explaining prototypes from the images in three dimensions to the secrets of memory. In Nemo can learn about construction, electricity, space, genetics, adolescents, perception, robotics. There are areas dedicated to workshops and experimentation. It has a small shop where I bought a couple of curiosities, a Newton telescope and cardboard to build a game on pixels.

Although the visit was very pleasant, did surprise me the childlike aspect of the place ... With this, I think that wonderful knowledge center was a little limited to children from 0-10 years, just for appearances ... Not so fooled by senses, science museums are places for the enjoyment and learning for all!

On Monday 21, using the hours in Amsterdam, we visited the extraordinary exhibition recently organized by Mediamatic . This exhibition has been created with the collaboration of people from different countries and is worth a visit. In the afternoon, our guide of the Netherlands, Astrid Lubs, who is currently working with the meet , showed us the insides of FabLab , laboratory and manufacturing Waag Society . This was very interesting and enriching!

The return was somewhat uneven and were beginning to get the Christmas holidays, but weighing the parties, the Mandarin has been working ... Just before the end of the year, I issued the new website of the Newton Mandarina I've been preparing these last days. So the changes have been completed and we moved to:

Newton's Mandarina web
Mandarina Newton's new blog
Newton's Mandarina future podcast

In addition I have also been preparing the presentation that I will perform the next day January 4 at 18h in Citilab Cornellá. I have already bought witch brooms, eggs, marbles, fireballs and cornstarch. I have also had cooking sessions with my friends Astrid, Pau and his family ... If you want to know more or try our mandarins will have to come to the meet!

Happy 2010 to everyone and now we are in the new blog Mandarina Newton !

about me

I'm Irene, Mandarin Ila, curious and playful, who would like to understand why almost all things and the origins of the universe. Live fascinated by art, dance, shapes and colors. One day I felt certain that for me the science and art combined in disclosure. That day I chose to work as a communicator and popularizing science.
A little over a year Newton was born in Mandarin as a blog. Its origin was in blogspot .
In this 2010, tangerine moved to Wordpress and its timid beginnings become a business venture.
The Mandarin of Newton is a project that combines science and technology with any other discipline, to create activities, exhibitions, meetings and recreational and educational objects. You can find more information on the web or follow each month on the podcast of science in Catalan of the mandarin of Newton and Irene Lapuente Tomàs Manzanares.