with performance by the saxophonist Marcelo Chiuminatto

with performance by the saxophonist Marcelo Chiuminatto

Culinary creations can be explained in scientific terms. The matterphysicists see is soft, in that both its state and its properties caneasily be transformed. At the same time many aspects of the world oftextures being explored by today’s new chefs are still in need of abetter understanding of the physical and chemical processes involved.The speakers will introduce us to this perspective on the world ofcooking and the new lexicon it is generating.

With the participation of Mariana Koppmann, president of the Asociación Argentina de Gastronomía Molecular, and Davide Cassi, professor of Physics of Matter at the Università di Parma

Culinary creations can be explained in scientific terms. The matterphysicists see is soft, in that both its state and its properties caneasily be transformed. At the same time many aspects of the world oftextures being explored by today’s new chefs are still in need of abetter understanding of the physical and chemical processes involved.The speakers will introduce us to this perspective on the world ofcooking and the new lexicon it is generating.

With the participation of Mariana Koppmann, president of the Asociación Argentina de Gastronomía Molecular, and Davide Cassi, professor of Physics of Matter at the Università di Parma

How would you turn a liquid into a solid in the kitchen? What is so important about the viscosity and density of cooked liquids? How would you trap the bubbles in a glass of cava?
 
With Mariana Koppmann, president of the Asociación Argentina de Gastronomía Molecular, and Pere Castells, Head of Research at the Fundació Alícia

Length: 1 hr. 30 mins.

How would you turn a liquid into a solid in the kitchen? What is so important about the viscosity and density of cooked liquids? How would you trap the bubbles in a glass of cava?
 
With Mariana Koppmann, president of the Asociación Argentina de Gastronomía Molecular, and Pere Castells, Head of Research at the Fundació Alícia

Length: 1 hr. 30 mins.

Workshops aimed at teachers who want to experiment with cooking techniques which involve physical and chemical processes of interest to students, from emulsifying to spherifying, by way of gelling and measuring the acidity of different foods. This workshop is useful as a preparation for the schools workshops in September and October.

15th JULY | 11:00a.m | Length: 2 hrs.
Cooking as a tool for teaching science
With Claudi Mans, Delegate of the Rector responsible for coordination of the Torribera Food Campus and Professor Emeritus of Chemical Engineering, Universitat de Barcelona


22nd JULY | 11:00a.m | Length: 2 hrs.
Science as a tool for cooking
With Pere Castells, Head of Research at the Fundació Alícia

Workshops aimed at teachers who want to experiment with cooking techniques which involve physical and chemical processes of interest to students, from emulsifying to spherifying, by way of gelling and measuring the acidity of different foods. This workshop is useful as a preparation for the schools workshops in September and October.

15th JULY | 11:00a.m | Length: 2 hrs.
Cooking as a tool for teaching science
With Claudi Mans, Delegate of the Rector responsible for coordination of the Torribera Food Campus and Professor Emeritus of Chemical Engineering, Universitat de Barcelona


22nd JULY | 11:00a.m | Length: 2 hrs.
Science as a tool for cooking
With Pere Castells, Head of Research at the Fundació Alícia

Do you know how to make milk mayonnaise?
And what about jam? Discover culinary techniques for transforming and mixing liquids, solids and gases, and learn to recognize the plants in the kitchen garden and make compost from recycled organic matter.

Length: 2 hrs.

Dossier

Do you know how to make milk mayonnaise?
And what about jam? Discover culinary techniques for transforming and mixing liquids, solids and gases, and learn to recognize the plants in the kitchen garden and make compost from recycled organic matter.

Length: 2 hrs.

Dossier

Coordinate: Patrícia Homs and Paula Fonollà

This series of three screenings of documentaries and forums focusing oncurrent problems in relation to spaces of audio-visual resistance willaddress such issues as: What strategies can audio-visual artists and activists adopt to resist the prevailing tendency to hegemony and homogenization and open up spacesfor participation? How can the production and dissemination of audio-visual expression in this scenario be financed and disseminated?

Presentation:
A new wave of video production is occupying the spaces dominated by themass media. Webdocumentaries, fanfiction, videologs and videogames areamong the genres being developed in the context of digital convergence.The new audio-visual productions have their own languages, tools and channels of dissemination, created out of an ongoing dialogue betweendifferent cultures.

DISPLAYis a showcase for cyberfilms made in a transmedia setting. In these three audio-visual screening and debate sessions the focus of discussion is the videocratic society and its dimensions and effects.

-Session 1: Media and Control. Tuesday 18 May 2010
-Session 2: Self-representation and Identity. Tuesday 20 July 2010
-Session 3: Multi-protagonism and Diversity. Tuesday 21 September 2010

This series of three screenings of documentaries and forums focusing oncurrent problems in relation to spaces of audio-visual resistance willaddress such issues as: What strategies can audio-visual artists and activists adopt to resist the prevailing tendency to hegemony and homogenization and open up spacesfor participation? How can the production and dissemination of audio-visual expression in this scenario be financed and disseminated?

Presentation:
A new wave of video production is occupying the spaces dominated by themass media. Webdocumentaries, fanfiction, videologs and videogames areamong the genres being developed in the context of digital convergence.The new audio-visual productions have their own languages, tools and channels of dissemination, created out of an ongoing dialogue betweendifferent cultures.

DISPLAYis a showcase for cyberfilms made in a transmedia setting. In these three audio-visual screening and debate sessions the focus of discussion is the videocratic society and its dimensions and effects.

-Session 1: Media and Control. Tuesday 18 May 2010
-Session 2: Self-representation and Identity. Tuesday 20 July 2010
-Session 3: Multi-protagonism and Diversity. Tuesday 21 September 2010

About Divercult:
Divercult is an independent initiative whose aim is to promotediversity and the exercise of cultural cooperation. Its three lines ofaction are: research into projects, methods, initiatives, policies, programmes and people that contribute to dialogue between cultures; articulating connections between the agents responsible for these initiatives in order to create a participatory public network forcultural diversity, and the dissemination of practices and contentsthat promote diversity, such as news, articles, publications, images,events, competitions and so on.

Summer Nest is the intervention on the façade of Arts Santa Mònica being carried out by the Emiliana Design Studio. These soft cells — places to meet in, rest in, chill out in — are conceived as a relational and mediating object: a point of encounter.

STORY-reading sessions. Saturdays in July. At 6.00 and 6.30 p.m.

SATURDAY, 10 JULY ‘Edible Tales’
Tales to get your teeth into, stories about food to savour with your ears… Mmmmmmmmmmhhhhhh!
Storyteller: Laura Rodríguez. Session organized by Almazen

SATURDAY, 17 JULY: ‘Slashed and Torn Tales’
Stories that are sure not to leave you cold… In short, punk parables.
Storyteller: MON MAS. Session organized by Almazen

SATURDAY, 24 JULY: ‘Tales from Mallorca’
The Love of the Three Oranges by Jordi d’es Racó. The adventures of Bernadet, in a completely interactive narration in which the audience is spirited away to the fantastical, wonderful world of the Mallorcan folk tale.
Storyteller: AINA de Cos. Session organized by the ESPAI MALLORCA

SATURDAY 31 JULY: ‘Mirrors, girls and rabbits’
Stories about Alice
Storyteller: Merche 8A. Session organized by the BIBLIOTECA GÒTIC - ANDREU NIN library

And September's Sundays poetry reading SESSIONS

Summer Nest is the intervention on the façade of Arts Santa Mònica being carried out by the Emiliana Design Studio. These soft cells — places to meet in, rest in, chill out in — are conceived as a relational and mediating object: a point of encounter.

STORY-reading sessions. Saturdays in July. At 6.00 and 6.30 p.m.

SATURDAY, 10 JULY ‘Edible Tales’
Tales to get your teeth into, stories about food to savour with your ears… Mmmmmmmmmmhhhhhh!
Storyteller: Laura Rodríguez. Session organized by Almazen

SATURDAY, 17 JULY: ‘Slashed and Torn Tales’
Stories that are sure not to leave you cold… In short, punk parables.
Storyteller: MON MAS. Session organized by Almazen

SATURDAY, 24 JULY: ‘Tales from Mallorca’
The Love of the Three Oranges by Jordi d’es Racó. The adventures of Bernadet, in a completely interactive narration in which the audience is spirited away to the fantastical, wonderful world of the Mallorcan folk tale.
Storyteller: AINA de Cos. Session organized by the ESPAI MALLORCA

SATURDAY 31 JULY: ‘Mirrors, girls and rabbits’
Stories about Alice
Storyteller: Merche 8A. Session organized by the BIBLIOTECA GÒTIC - ANDREU NIN library

And September's Sundays poetry reading SESSIONS

From Tuesday to Friday at 07:00pm

Lenght: 1h

Free guided visits that include a bitter taste test and a jam and wine sweet as honey tasting

From Tuesday to Friday at 07:00pm

Lenght: 1h

Free guided visits that include a bitter taste test and a jam and wine sweet as honey tasting