Vil·la Urània
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- Saragossa, 29, 08006, Barcelona
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- 93 706 12 95
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- ajuntament.barcelona.cat/ccivics/vil.laurania
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In this activity, guided by researchers from the Institute of Cosmos Sciences, we will build the constellation of Orion in three dimensions. We will take into account both the position and the distance to the stars that form it in order to see how this constellation typical of the winter sky would look if we looked at it from different points in space. Once assembled, we will simulate a journey in space and record the change in shape of the constellation from different perspectives. The researchers of the GaiaUB group of the University of Barcelona participate in the Nesga Mission of the European Space Agency that since 2014 is mapping our galaxy -the Milky Way- from space to make a map in 3 dimensions.
In the context of their first collaboration, the Centre Civic Vil·la Urània and LOOP present a newly produced video by artist Julia Llerena (Spain, 1985), titled Estación Biológica (2019). Filmed in a desert park in the natural reserve of La Paz (Baja California Sur), it shows the site where Llerena herself built an antenna so to establish an ideal connection between the Earth and the Sky. As a result of the artist’s research on the premises of the CIBNOR (Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas del Noroeste, La Paz, México), the video implies a direct relationship between what is above and below us: the information that is extracted from a desert soil can indeed be the very same that is obtained by looking at a nocturnal sky.