As populations age, there is an urgent need to rethink the future of assisted living. Somoure is an artistic research project that explores the production processes, impacts and consequences of the development of assistive robotics. <\/p>\n\n
The Yam is a robotic arm designed by the Institute of Robotics and Industrial Informatics (CSIC-UPC) to feed those people who cannot do it on their own. For nine months, the collaboration between the IRI and the artist M\u00f3nica Riki\u0107 has made it possible to rethink the robot from the perspective of assistive robotics not only as a technological problem to be solved, but as a network of interconnections necessary to shape expectations about what demographic change will entail. <\/p>\n\n
Through the conceptual research process, the project has collected opinions on the presence and impact of assistive robotics on care work from specialists in philosophy of technology, sociologists, representatives of domestic work unions and other activists.<\/p>\n\n
J\u00falia Borr\u00e0s (IRI, CSIC-UPC), Karina Fulladosa (Sindillar), Daniel L\u00f3pez (CareNet, UOC) and the artist M\u00f3nica Riki\u0107 will participate in this dialogue on care robotics, structures for the future and care. The aim is to reflect together on how care and society should be examined from a critical, reflective and interdisciplinary perspective. Subsequently, an informal space for debate with the public will be opened and the result of the artistic production of the project will be presented: a DIY replica of the Yam created through a collaborative design process. This replica aims to modify (hack) its form, behavior, and, most importantly, the architecture of the code to reflect various social concerns and other critical philosophical perspectives on robotics and care. <\/p>\n\n
Currently, the Somoure project is exhibited at the Monastery of Sant Cugat as part of the biennial Manifesta15 Barcelona Metropolitana.<\/p>\n\n
PROGRAM<\/strong><\/p>\n\n 18:00 \u2013 18:05 Welcome PARTICIPANTS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n M\u00f3nica Riki\u0107.<\/strong> Electronic artist. National Prize for Culture of Catalonia 2021. She develops practice through code and creative electronics, combining them with non-digital objects to create electronic theatrical devices and robotic installations. His interest lies in social impact and critical thinking around alternative technologies through open hardware. <\/p>\n\n J\u00falia Borr\u00e0s<\/strong> CSIC researcher focused on how robots learn to interact with the environment and on the design of robotic hands, with more than 15 years of experience in the field of research. She studied Mathematics at the UPC and Computer Science at the UOC, and received her PhD in robotics at the Institute of Robotics and Industrial Informatics (UPC-CSIC) in 2011. She spent 7 years doing research in the United States and Germany, and in 2018 she returned to Catalonia as part of a European robotic clothing manipulation project, won the prestigious Ramon y Cajal research grant and in 2020 she started as a senior scientist at the CSIC. She is currently doing research in assistive robotics and clothing handling, is editor of the international journal IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters and deputy director of the Institute of Robotics and Industrial Informatics (CSIC-UPC). <\/p>\n\n Daniel L\u00f3pez G\u00f3mez<\/strong>. Professor of Social Psychology at the UOC’s Faculty of Psychology and Education and co-director of the CareNet research group at the Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (IN3). His research is located at the intersection of the Faculty of Science and Technology (STS) and the Ageing Studies. It studies the emergence of new care infrastructures in a context of care crisis and demographic change, in particular: the development and consequences of the digitalisation of care and the construction of new environments, communities and homes for ageing with care. <\/p>\n\n Karina Fulladosa-Leal<\/strong>. Social researcher and activist of Sindillar\/Sindihogar. She has a PhD at the Universitat Aut\u00f2noma de Barcelona (UAB) in social psychology with the thesis: Women in movement: expanding the margins of social and political participation in collective action as domestic and care workers (2017). Her main contribution has been the concept of \u201cmimopolitics\u201d which refers to a set of practices that have to do with the politics of care by getting emotionally and politically involved in processes of social transformation and claiming decent working and living conditions. She is currently a member of the board of the Francesca Bonnemaison \u2013 La Bonne Women’s Centre. <\/p>\n\n Carles Sora-Domenj\u00f3<\/strong>. Interdisciplinary researcher of new media, designer and producer of digital projects in the cultural field. He is currently director and professor at the Centre for Image and Multimedia Technology (CITM) at UPC-BarcelonaTech. PhD in digital media from Pompeu Fabra University (2015) and Fulbright postdoctoral researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2017-2019). Her research focuses on interactive and immersive narratives and digital art. She has contributed to several applied research projects, co-led an S+T+ARTS project and published several articles in international journals, as well as a book on digital temporalities (UPC Press). <\/p>\n\n Moderator<\/strong>: Alejandra L\u00f3pez Gabrielidis.<\/strong> Philosopher and researcher specialising in art and digital technologies. Her research focuses on the new modalities of corporeality that arise in relation to the phenomenon of datification, exploring the interaction between data and the body from a focus of distributed agencyality and cognition. She currently works as coordinator of the Doctoral Unit at BAU, University Center of Arts and Design of Barcelona, and as a professor of Aesthetics and Theory of the Arts in the degrees of Design and Fine Arts of the same university. She has worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the Technopolitics unit of the CNSC (Communication Networks and Social Change) group of the Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (IN3) of the Open University of Catalonia (UOC), and as co-coordinator of the Sociotechnical Conceptualization Vector. Apart from his academic work, he has translated works by authors such as Franco “Bifo” Berardi and Katherine Hayles, and has published numerous articles and essays in various magazines and specialized media. <\/p>\n\n This event is organised by HacTe, the Institute of Robotics and Industrial Informatics (CSIC-UPC), UPC Arts and the Ateneu Barcelon\u00e8s<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n The S+T+ARTS programme is funded by the European Commission<\/strong> and supported by the Department of Culture of the Government of Catalonia and the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":7145,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"categories":[104],"tags":[117,122],"destacat":[],"class_list":["post-6378","actualitat","type-actualitat","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-debates-en","tag-community","tag-transfer"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n