SOTC#3 (Press Release, February 2014)

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Barcelona, 10 February 2014

PRESS RELEASE

Science of the City #3 Video Contest Look at your city with scientific eyes and tell us what you see!

Highlights

• Starts the 3rd Edition of the international Science of the City Video Contest • A contest open to all citizens: students, scientists, designers, journalists... and it aims to promote collaboration, citizen involvement and fun • Participants have to send a two-minute video that relates cities and science in their own way.

• Best videos will be awarded with cash-prizes and aired on TV • The deadline for video submissions is April 24, 2014

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Details Project and Past Editions La Mandarina de Newton, within its area of research and work Co-Creating Cultures, and after the success of the first and second edition, launches the third edition of Science of the City Video Contest.

Science of the City takes places in Barcelona, Madrid, Silicon Valley, Paris, Zagreb, Amsterdam and many other cities around the globe.

From on-site to on-line workshops, or from video contests for and by citizens to dialogues with artists and scientists, Science of the City is a project that aims to bridge the gap between science, the city and citizens. It is a project aimed at presenting a new way of looking at science and at the city, through participation, co-creation and hybridization. Because we believe science is an attitude that can be at any place, accessible to all.

The first edition of the video contest received over 9,000 visits and over 1,000 online votes. The more than 50 videos submitted were then used as an inspiration for artists to create art pieces that culminated in the Science of the City exhibition (2012).

The second edition, instead of bringing the proposals of citizens to artists, aimed to enable the co-creation with scientists. After the video contest, a series of workshops in different cities around Europe were our opportunity to promote the dialogue between participants and scientists.

3rd Edition Well-known concepts, new challenges, discoveries and discoverers, or experiments in action. All of these can considered science in Science of the City.

Cities are excellent educational resources. How can we use them? How can we relate scientific concepts to our cities? Can we build a bridge from citizens to researchers though showing citizens’ concerns? Can citizens point to new challenges? Do cities show the history of science? Science of the City wants to find answers to these and other questions.

Anyone can participate and enter the video contest by sending us the link to cocreatingcultures@gmail.com of a two-minute video that relates cities and science in their own way.

The best videos will be awarded with two 500â‚Ź prizes for the most creative video, selected by a jury, and the most voted by the public. On top of that, some videos will be aired on TV.

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From January 24 and until April 24 participants can send us as many videos as they want and we will upload them at our website.

This is a project of La Mandarina de Newton, within its working area Co-Creating Cultures.

INFORMATION The latest information on the Science of the City Project is available at its website at www.scienceofthecity.net and www.scienceofthecity.net/2014, on its Facebook Page at Science-of-the-City/ and on its Twitter channel at @SciCity.

Also, for more information on the video contest and how to participate: http://bit.ly/1n8Ouex Information about past editions also at: www.scienceofthecity.net CONTACT You can contact us at cocreatingcultures@gmail.com

[ends] La Mandarina de Newton www.lamandarinadenewton.com La Mandarina de Newton is a company focused on creating innovative cultures in different settings, from education to business. We design and facilitate collective processes of intelligence, and creativity. We co-design the transformation processes of groups and organizations, educational contents, artistic and scientific collaborations, and cultural environments and processes. Our approach is based on the combination of disciplines and methodologies and our goal is to promote learning, creativity, critical thinking and the innovative culture that results from their interplay.

Co-Creating Cultures http://co-creating-cultures.com La Mandarina de Newton organizes its activities into two working areas that mutually reinforce the knowledge emerging from the development of their different projects: Co-Creating Cultures and Sharing Knowledge. Co-Creating Cultures is a platform dedicated to the design, curation, research and implementation of creative and innovative transformation processes in culture, education and organizations. It interconnects complexity and design methodologies to collaboratively create new strategies, organizational arrangements, processes, services and products. This area helps us understand the collective and hybrid dimension of learning in Sharing Knowledge.