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La Mandarina de Newton is curious. She wants to know the why of it all and understand the secrets of the universe existing and imaginary. She wants to get close to the rocks and to the possible computer designs. To find answers, we must ask questions. So we will wonder how, why, who, where, when, how ... There will be no room for boredom or apathy. Curiosity is our seed. The workshops, activities, games, pictures, stories, or books will be the farmer's attention. People will form the land. The plant, a Mandarin. And the flowers? And the fruit that generates this Newton's Mandarin? Well, they will take the form of future scientists, technologists or simply people who have acquired a different look, the look of science and technology.
Mixing science, technology, art, culture, society, game, enthusiasm, diversity, design, innovation... all of it for the most refreshing cocktails during this season, tangerine juice with accelerated falling! |
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La Mandarina de Newton is a personal and professional project that wants to squeeze all the juice to science and technology. Based on the desire to explore the possibility of working with scientific and technology issues in a diversity of formats. La Mandarina de Newton proposes the creation of workshops, exhibitions, games, entertainment, tourism, ginkanas, games, video games, blogs, stories, newsletters, events and more. And also offers advice and training on scence and technology communication.
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Irene Lapuente obtained a degree in Physics from the University of Barcelona (2002). She completed postgraduate studies in Science Communication, Divulgation and Pedagogy at Pompeu Fabra University (2003 and 2008) and at the Technical University of Catalonia, UPC (2003). She also trained and practiced in museography both at the University of Barcelona and at Cosmo Caixa, Barcelona's Science Museum, an Center that is an Excite Excellence Award Winner).
Since 2003 she has been working in Science and Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Communication and Divulgation. She actively experiments and combines with different formats ranging from games, theatre and familiy activities to the creation and dynamization of online plaforms and communities.
She has worked in or for scientific and technological centers and companies such as CosmoCaixa Barcelona, Citilab or Invenio. At Cosmocaixa she was in charge of science activities design and implementaton. At Citilab she has been developing activities for kids and defining the exhibtion programme. For Invenio she developed a set of science and technology divulgation workshops for kids and primary teachers that has been successfully run in more than 200 Catalan schools.
She took the responsibility of Science Communicator at the Software Department LSI from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC) and implemented the first communication strategy for that deparment as well as its first online strategy. It was recognized as an outstanding initiative by the Catalan Agency for Research and Innovation. She got the the position of Head of Science Communication and Divulgation at the Catalan Institute of Paleontology (ICP) in 2009.
She has published articles in +LSI, Informacions and DossierTecnològic and participated in several Web2.0 initiatives ranging from podcasts (Mossega La Poma) to fora. She also runs a popular blog in science divulgation: La Mandarina de Newton.
On the other hand, she has significant experience as a secondary teacher in areas such as mathematics, science and technology. She has experience as teacher and monitor for summer schools. Previously she also worked for one year as a Physics Technician in the Rahtmore Grammar School, Belfast, Northern Ireland.
She is accomplished contemporary dancer, having participated in several performances in both Catalonia and Northern Ireland in the last ten years. She developed several coreographies while at Cosmocaixa around Physics concepts and she keeps a keen interest in devising new formats for science communication and divulgation at the intersection between art, dance and science. |
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The major projects are never the work of a single individual, but the result of the work of a great group of people. As Isaac Newton said "We walk on Giants' shoulders". La Mandarina de Newton is no exception. With these four lines I want to thank all the effort, feelings, ideas and enthusiasm of those who have been helping to make la Mandarina de Newton a reality:
Amparo Aguilar, member of Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Reus.
Jordi Aloy, member of the Àrea de Medi Ambient i Ciència of La Fundació "la Caixa", Barcelona.
Pau Domínguez, member of Citilab Cornellà.
Monique Girart, Full Professor at Columbia University, NYC.
Rob Ketner, head of the virtual community at The Tech Museum of San Jose, California.
Xavier Kirchner, member of Fundació Catalana per a la Recerca i la Innovació.
Eduardo Lapuente, telecommunications professional.
Tomàs Manzanares, founder of "Mossega la Poma".
Josep Maria Marimon, co-founder of Tangent.
Marisol Pérez, Philosophy teacher at IES Josep Tapiró, Reus.
Antoni Ramírez, PhD in theoretical Physics at Universitat de Barcelona.
Ramon Sangüesa, Professor at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya and co-founder of Citilab Cornellà. |
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