identify who of you has
heard about this term lift
the hands very well what would he do if he
I ask now in two minutes to some
of you salazar what does this mean
term with some you can ask
which you have next to that just
raise your hands others could
just look for a definition
fast on the internet on our mobile
although I hope not because they should
be turned off
The truth is that we have great access
to knowledge we can look at
internet we can go to the library
we can even see ted talks to
respect but it’s here in valencia and
other privileged places in the world
how were we talking
we find many gaps that limit
this knowledge gaps like the gap
digital made for political reasons
economic or geographic and this is
it results in a great inequality
this inequality is centered between
rich countries and poor countries in
Three more rural areas more areas
urban and even between countries
democratic and less democratic
We wanted to go to a center where
clearly reflects this inequality in the
access to knowledge and can produce
extreme inequality
these centers where it is generated
knowledge are great
infrastructures such as universities or
large telescopes but their surroundings
tend to be way behind the
findings that are made within
this infrastructure
I bring you the example of sky law or
square kilometer king is going to be the biggest
radio telescope of the world will observe
the sky 10,000 times faster
of what telescopes do
current was going to be located in two
remote areas of southern Africa and
Australia
it’s such an ambitious project that goes to
be formed by three thousand
radio telescopes will go to
also because of their large size they are going to have
an accuracy 50 times greater than
current instruments and besides it’s so
ambitious that leads him to a consortium of
twelve countries
besides simply him so that you
make an idea of the scale the
data exchange between the two bases
of South Africa and Australia will overcome
the global current traffic limit of
internet is logically like os
can you imagine a project of this
scale leads to the limit of our
technology one step further and that
technology limit today is going to
help so that tomorrow everyone in our
palm of the hand we can enjoy
better advantages
good all or almost all because today in
day we know that these areas to avoid
interferences have to be placed in
very remote territories where
there is practically no civilization so
good as we know today there are
local communities everywhere we
I would hear it because it would be because we do not take advantage
today of all this access to knowledge
and build meeting centers
among the most advanced communities and
the communities that have less access
to these to this knowledge and there it is
where would the answer to what they do
architect like me talking about big
telescopes and talking about astronomy has
I was lucky to be part of the
astronomy Saglietti group or the group
of astronomy and society
a group an office where we
We dedicate to the disclosure of
science is an exciting field a
multidisciplinary field and we develop
different education projects
because as nelson mandela says
education is the best weapon to change
the world
well we develop educational materials
very simple how is football that
could go through a beach ball
but in reality it is much more because
thanks to materials that we have
hung for free on the internet
Many activities can be developed
and most important what we most
interesting is that beyond that the
children always find the typical
flat map with your borders studies a
little your country and the surroundings
they will always have
global idea of our planet as it
see from space and this fosters a
much more idea of tolerance and of
global citizenship that for us
it may be very clear but for example
for refugee children or countries in
new formation or such understand that
we are really part of it
planet is very important
this project is part of others
projects like and university box and
university box or in Spanish would be
the universe in a box is a box in
which we fill with educational material
as the spur and we send it to countries of
all the world
It is currently in more than 60 countries
and allows any teacher through
simply an activity guide
perform astronomy activities
this project has been ten years and
Well, it would deserve a part talk but
the most important thing is what we have
learned after 10 years on
this project we have come into contact
with teachers from around the world and we
They have transmitted their needs
They are happy but they have more
resources for more children about more
themes
then we said good if we have
got a lot out of a box
of astronomy activities because no
let’s take out of a container all
science Museum
well from rural areas of portugal
as the first image up super area
technological developments in the Netherlands
would be the center of the essa there of the
European space agency
we are this project a project
that allows to close a little this great
inequality gap
we call this project open science
center or what in Spanish would be
Science has open spaces are few
spaces that require certain
flexibility need to be compact and
they need to be placed in many places
of the world
that’s why we literally say use a
container a ship container that
allows us through different sizes
with 1 make a small space with
two perform the medium and with three
perform the big
we have several designs the idea of
project is that it is opensource any
can you find the internet can
adapt to be able to do it with their
own
god and next to a Dutch study of
amsterdam called de namén we design
an envelope that apart from giving a
global idea for all the same
identity through different fills
with local materials an acclimatization is
little the different zones
here we have an example where
precisely where are we going to place the
first prototype no witches consep let’s go
to place in love to what you will find
at once for being the precursor of the sky
law is currently the largest
radio telescope of the world and yet
its center is located in a rural area a
little remote from netherlands
precisely astron the association of
radio astronomy of netherlands together
a love art does what would be a
Association of teachers and people
local of that environment have been the
biggest promoters of the project and are
very interested because this area is a
area where they are closing
schools are closing ports
we were there and they told us
that really people are moving
to the big cities and yet
this small investment in culture
can reactivate the area
well against the great inequality
We propose open spaces for and for
all that really promote the
sustainable local development but believe
that simply with this space a
empty container can achieve this great
change
well of course not but our
project is much more than a space
empty and the interesting thing is also no
only the container but the content does not
We fill in the latest advances in
different education subject
techniques that we have carried out in
our from our own office
I present for example this is a
European-level project of my hotel
china in any wiki mysteries
Incorporated is based on teaching
science as if they were true
mysteries that then the students
they have to go on solving in a way
participatory as if they were small
detectives or as we call ourselves
scientists
‘here I am’ testing one of the
experiments called aquatic garden
that in the end it does not even turn out to be a
garden
another one of the ideas that we like very much is
relate the
science with art and that’s why we try
use many manifestations
artistic as theater cinema or comic in
In this case, we like the example of
the one that he did to promote his
recipe project and here we see another
Open source material can be downloaded
from the web and it’s so that everyone
print and build your own satellite
and you can have your own recipe at home
in the end the key is in front of this great
inequality gap activities
participatory and creative and a little the
learning by doing or learning while
you do but where we could place
this infrastructure
well, it does not take anything at all
a new building we put it
also as something that everyone can
adopt in their own vacant space and
we think good why not if one has
a cellar and a gym Montara
can assemble a small laboratory or
makers page or open science center
well we carry out an idea that
they gave us at the observatory
astronomical of the university of
valencia that is situated in this
so pretty village for the sake of
elms and they told us we’re good
interested because we are going to make a
museum to value the history and
the natural heritage of the area
but also thanks to its magnificent
Starry night may also have
a little bit of scientific activities and
promote a little disclosure not to
final
the idea is a one a small space
contribution where we can all put
our two cents to trust in the
power of ideas and trust in power
of access to knowledge and take advantage
that access that we all have
to follow back that involves walking
together towards a world without inequality
extreme because every step counts many
Thank you
and
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