00:18 Everything is learnt,
00:19 and you learn by doing.
00:35 What we claim from the citizen laboratory
00:37 is that citizens have to be part of the processes of social innovation.
00:43 or transformations at the city level,
00:47 because just like a sick person can have knowledge about his illness,
00:53 a citizen will have knowledge
00:57 of those problems that are to be solved in their city,
01:02 whether they are in urban planning, education or any other field.
01:13 And this is what we have been doing in Citilab since 2007.
01:18 When we started it was a very groundbreaking concept,
01:23 but the founders of Citilab brought this idea to the table.
01:31 that citizens could be part of the solution to social problems.
01:37 or the challenges of the city.
01:40 And since then we've been working
01:43 on demonstrating that, in the different areas, this was possible.
01:51 A citizen can innovate
01:54 but we have to generate the contexts and the conditions for him to do so,
01:58 and without speaking to it in a language that is too complex.
02:03 Each discipline has its own terminology,
02:05 its own concepts and ways of doing things,
02:08 and it creates like a tower of Babel.
02:10 It happens even within the disciplines themselves.
02:13 Each of these groups,
02:14 the public administration, the university,
02:16 the company and the social world itself
02:18 have their knowledge and their ways of doing,
02:21 and we have to generate contexts in which they can interact,
02:25 that can generate a common space,
02:29 sharing a language, sharing objectives
02:31 and share a challenge to be solved.
02:35 Labs, one of the things they do
02:37 is help to do these translations,
02:39 helping to create safe spaces
02:42 where citizens don't feel subjugated
02:46 neither by language, nor by the power of other agents.
02:54 Problem-solving spaces need diverse agents.
02:58 If we are always the same,
03:00 we will arrive at the same solutions.
03:02 It's just by bringing in people from different disciplines.
03:05 and fields of knowledge, when we will be able to solve complex problems.
03:18 The educational field is a beastly opportunity for citizen laboratories,
03:26 because there are so many things to transform.
03:29 and we need young people to transform them.
03:31 In Citilab we work very closely with the educational community,
03:36 and we collaborate with it to incorporate programming and robotics
03:41 in primary schools.
03:47 When you set up temporary labs, workshops,
03:51 that is, more sectoral labs,
03:54 people think it's cool what you do but sometimes they don't understand it.
03:58 But when you work with the boys and girls in the city,
04:02 with the sons and daughters of the families,
04:04 and they see that they can learn how to make an application,
04:08 programming from the age of six to the age of twelve,
04:13 and that programming is no longer scary,
04:16 and it's them and them, the boys and the girls,
04:19 the teachers who can incorporate the use of programming
04:22 into the Catalan class or the art class in a transversal way,
04:25 we are incorporating in the curriculum
04:28 technology and computational thinking,
04:31 defending our hypothesis that
04:33 this is like a superpower that will allow you to be innovative.
04:43 We can all be creators.
04:45 They talk about User Generated Content,
04:47 user-generated content, the content generated by users.
04:50 So all these means of production are just two clicks away,
04:57 but we need some digital literacy skills.
05:01 and media literacy,
05:03 to know how to navigate and use all these media
05:06 to reach the whole world,
05:09 because now we have a brutal potential to spread what we do.
05:14 One of the fathers of the transmedia world said:
05:19 "If it's not spread, it's dead". "If it's not spread, it's dead."
05:32 When we see this in the Citilab clubs, we see this.
05:35 with children or with adults, it's transformative.
05:39 We have a group called 'New Artisans',
05:42 and these new artisans are people
05:44 who had previously worked in the metal industry
05:47 were either carpenters or the general public,
05:52 I mean adult people,
05:54 they're not children but they're not seniors either,
05:56 and they're doing wearable projects,
05:59 internet of things projects,
06:01 Smart Cities projects...
06:02 And they are a group of citizens who, a priori..,
06:04 didn't know what the internet of things was,
06:07 they didn't know what a wearable was,
06:08 didn't know what an API was,
06:09 didn't know what Arduino was,
06:11 they didn't know what a 3D printer was.
06:13 But they've learned it as they've been challenged.
06:29 It's about opening up all these manufacturing labs.
06:32 The 'Fab Labs' that emerged at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).
06:35 were originally intended for architects and designers.
06:38 Well, no, citizens can also join.
06:42 Now, you're going to have to work with technology that they can manipulate.
06:48 and you'll have to accompany them in the process
06:52 of becoming familiar with this technology.
06:55 And if the project is theirs, the motivation will drive them to figure things out.
07:02 In the labs, it's not like you're the teacher of a class.
07:08 and teach a lesson,
07:10 but you join in to provide knowledge
07:14 as a project asks for it.
07:16 This is another superpower:
07:18 explain things in the open.
07:21 If not, it is closed and everyone has to do the same process again.
07:25 and can't learn from the mistakes of the others.
07:36 I have been following the whole Hirikilabs project a lot.
07:41 because they were doing very close practices
07:45 to what we do here.
07:48 For me it's very important to put together and make a triangle.
07:51 between the library, the educational community and the citizen laboratories.
07:55 For me this is a triangle that allows us to drive a lot of processes.
08:02 and with a lot of power.
08:04 You ask anyone in the city what a library is.
08:08 and they know exactly what it is,
08:09 and he knows he can go and feel welcome.
08:12 And the Tabakalera library is amazing, it's really cool,
08:16 with all those creative spaces
08:20 that already have this 'virus' of creativity built into them.
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