Virtual discovery on European Researchers’ Night
Details have been announced for a major event that will take place at a university in Madrid as part of European Researchers’ Night 2015.
The event, entitled ‘Virtual worlds: between culture and technology’, will be held at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, and will focus on the society’s transition from written to digital culture, as well as augmented reality and the cyborg phenomenon.
The project will present how humans will began to live in a world where the difference between the real and the virtual becomes more indistinct. Speaking about the upcoming event, Antonio Rodríguez de las Heras, a professor of humanities at the event, said: “The blurriness of that separation has far-reaching cultural and educational consequences.”
The show is aimed at young people, families and adults “because the language that we are going to use – narrative, visual and metaphorical – will make it easy for people to identify with and understand” said Heras, whose research focuses on observing and contemplating the changes in culture and education brought about by technology.
The academic added that the purpose of this initiative is to explore such fascinating subjects as “the changes in the way we collect knowledge (changes in written culture), how a layer of virtual reality is superimposed on what we call real (augmented reality), or how the virtual enters us and begins to change the very notion we have of ourselves (the cyborg phenomenon).”
This activity is part of European Researchers’ Night 2015, and is set to take place on 25 September. European Researchers’ Night is a scientific dissemination project under the auspices of Horizon 2020 and sees events take place simultaneously in over 300 European cities.
More details can be found here.
