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Our planet in 50m years
UP to 120 secondary students at Benidorm’s IES Pere Maria Orts college have taken part in a project combining art and biology to imagine the future of the planet in up to 50 million years’ time.
The aim of Simbiontes. Diseño ficción (‘Symbionts. Design fiction’), organised jointly by the regional Education department and the Museum Consortium in 15 schools and colleges throughout the Valencian Community, was to encourage artistic creation among children and teenagers.
Participants designed six future planetary eras entitled Aqualia (10,000 years’ time), Acuaz (50,000), Criozoico
(100,000), Vegalia (500,000), Vulcania (one million) and Ozonozoico (50 million) with their respective changes, evolutions, climate and major extinctions.
Predictions included a total melting of the ice caps and water covering the whole surface of the Earth, months of earthquakes and tsunamis caused by a meteorite impact, a new Ice Age, plant life spreading and giving rise to large forests or swampy plains, and a series of massive volcanic eruptions joining all the continents together.
Meanwhile, human beings, animals and plants will struggle to survive by adapting and merging by symbiosis, according to the budding biologists.
LA NUCIA will have a new paddle tennis complex this summer.
The facilities will include four cuttingedge courts replicating the ones used in the World Padel Tour, dressing rooms, a shop, a cafeteria and eventually a gym, and will be located in the Urbanizacion Bello Horizonte in Calle Luxemburgo.
Padelpoint Premium La Nucia will cost €500,000 to build and will be financed jointly by television producer Giorgio Aresu and Padelpoint La Nucia, who also manages the existing paddle installations at Camilo Cano sports centre.
Work is scheduled to begin soon with the complex due to open in August.
“It is great news for La Nucia that Giorgio Aresu and Padelpoint have decided to build this new padel complex in our municipality,” declared Mayor Bernabe Cano.
“Once again the title ‘La Nucia, City of Sport’ has acted as a magnet for a new private investment, which will generate jobs and wealth for the municipality,” he added.
In a related development, last week La Nucia was awarded the title ‘European City of Sport’ for the second time.
