This citizen laboratory proposes to explore drawing as a collaborative and interdisciplinary practice. For this first edition, a call is open for eight projects around the idea of ​​catastrophe and its implications in the contemporary world. Once the projects have been selected, a second call will be opened for all those people interested in collaborating on any of the proposals. In this way, work teams will be created that will meet in a collaborative production workshop in the Library of the Faculty of Fine Arts of the Complutense University of Madrid.

Featured dates:
January 13 – February 6: call for projects. Form to present projects
February 10 – February 23: call for collaborators.
February 26 and 27 and March 12 and 13 from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.: project production workshop.

Drawing the catastrophe is an initiative of the Library of the Faculty of Fine Arts and the Department of Drawing III of the UCM that has been promoted by a multidisciplinary work group whose members will be mentors of the projects selected in the collaborative production workshops. María Barbero and María Jesús Vázquez, coordinators of SSERIES, have been part of this working group.

Call for projects

What type of projects are you looking for? We seek to promote projects that are:

1. Clarity, concreteness and viability of the proposal and adaptation to the calendar. Taking into account that at the end of the production workshop it is intended to have a prototype, the proposal must specify the parts of the proposal that are encompassable and that could be accommodated during the duration of the workshop and those that cannot.
2. It becomes visible that the project will benefit from your participation in the workshop
3. Participation of promoters and collaborators with diverse profiles and skills.
4. The project facilitates its replicability in other contexts
5. Diversity of ideas/themes in the selection of the set of proposals.
6. Diversity of topics and profiles of people.
7. Project quality.
   If the selection committee has doubts about any requirement, it will contact the person promoting the proposal.
8. Publication of selected projects
9. The resolution will be published on February 10 on the website enabled for the citizen laboratory, through the website of the Library of the Faculty of Fine Arts of the UCM: https://biblioteca.ucm.es/bba
10. All applicants will also be notified by email.
11. Public dissemination of the projects
12. The developed prototypes will be publicly presented by the promoters and collaborators on the final day of the workshop.
13. Participants authorize the prototypes and/or their documentation to be published on the organizers’ websites.
    Organization commitments
14. ● Create a space in the Library of the Faculty of Fine Arts for the development of workshops.
15. ● Accompany participants to document and publish results,
16. promoting the dissemination of the knowledge produced during the workshop.
17. ● Offer, within its possibilities, the necessary conditions so that no one can be limited for reasons of functional diversity or other circumstances.
18. Commitments of individuals or selected groups The selected people or groups agree to attend the workshop for its entire duration. Likewise, they undertake to document the projects through the means offered by the organization, and to disseminate the knowledge developed under open licenses. They must publicly present the projects developed on the final day of the workshop. The projects received must accept and encourage the participation of people interested in collaborating. The participation of each team member will be detailed in the project credits.
    Authorship and intellectual property It is recommended that participants in the call whose proposals are selected must license the creations and materials derived from them (texts, photographs, videos, etc.), with a Creative Commons license (Attribution – Share Alike (by-sa) that allows derivative works, and implies the use of the same type of license for distribution).
19. Collaboration with the MediaLabMadrid Archive exhibition The MediaLabMadrid archive project of the Complutense University of Madrid will organize an exhibition during the month of May. The results of Draw the catastrophe. Drawing laboratory as a collaborative practice, may be presented in the exhibition as an example of projects developed in a collaborative production workshop. The first time this workshop format was tested was at MediaLabMadrid in 2006 within the framework of the Interactive program? Since then this type of workshop has been adapted to multiple contexts and themes. Drawing the catastrophe is the first time it has been tried at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the UCM.

• Laboratory topic and objectives:
  Drawing the catastrophe is a citizen laboratory proposal that proposes exploring drawing as a collaborative, experimental and interdisciplinary practice to address the catastrophe as one of the fundamental issues facing our time.
• This citizen laboratory proposal seeks to bring together ideas, projects and voices that enrich the practice of drawing as a means of reflection, resistance and collective creation in the face of the multiple catastrophes of our time.
  Project types:
• This is an open call for a wide variety of projects. Projects of a theoretical or activist nature can be presented; artistic projects; from the social sciences or from the natural sciences; They can be original projects or an opportunity to strengthen existing projects; Proposals can also be presented to replicate or adapt initiatives that are already working in other places.
• When thinking about a project it is about imagining what knowledge that I do not have that I would like to incorporate to make my proposal a reality. The citizen laboratory is a tool to connect good ideas with potential collaborators. Anyone is a potential collaborator, we are all willing to contribute with our experience to make a good proposal come true.
  Who is it addressed to?
  This call is aimed at any person or group that wants to make a proposal about the relationship between drawing and catastrophe and wants to learn and share knowledge.
  Once up to eight proposals have been selected, a call will be opened to all those people who want to collaborate in making them a reality. To do this, work groups will be created made up of the promoter of the idea and the collaborators who register – up to a maximum of 10 people.
  The objective is for the participation of Teaching Research Staff (PDI), Administrative and Service Personnel (PAS), students of any academic discipline and professionals, activists, artists, groups or anyone interested in proposing an idea or collaborating in one of the selected projects. .
  How to participate?
• Proposals may be submitted individually or collectively. The proposals presented must be open to the participation of other people who want to collaborate during the production workshop.
• Up to a maximum of 8 projects that respond to the established criteria will be selected. Once the projects have been selected, a call will be opened to all those collaborators who want to contribute to their development.
  There are two modalities of participation in the projects:
• As a project promoter.
• As a collaborator in the development of one of the selected projects. The maximum number of collaborators per project will be 10.
• During the workshop, the ideas will be developed working in interdisciplinary groups made up of the person proposing the idea and interested collaborators. The objective is that people who did not know each other beforehand can collaborate on the projects.
• The groups will have the support and advice of guest mentors and advisors.
• Where will it be held? In the Library of the Faculty of Fine Arts of the Complutense University of Madrid. C. Pintor el Greco, 2, Moncloa – Aravaca, 28040 Madrid
  Calendar:
• Call for projects. January 13 – February 6
• Project selection. From February 6 to 9
• Publication of the selected projects on February 10, through the website https://biblioteca.ucm.es/bba
• Call for collaborators. February 10 – February 23
• Production workshop. On February 26 and 27 and March 12 and 13 from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.
• Call for proposals. How to present a project or an idea?
• People interested in participating in the Draw the Catastrophe citizen laboratory must complete and send the online form available at the following link:
  FORM TO SUBMIT PROPOSALS
• We suggest that you explain what you want to do, with whom and for what, so that we can understand your proposal well:
  
  Resolution. selection committee The selection committee will be composed of:
• María Andueza (UCM, Faculty of Fine Arts)
• María Barbero (Department of Applied Mathematics (ETSAM), UPM)
• Carla Boserman (UCM, Margarita Salas Research in drawing)
• María Ángeles Galindo-Pellicena (Archaeological and Paleontological Museum of Alcalá de Henares and UCM-ISCIII Joint Center for Human Evolution and Behavior)
• Ángela García Carballo (UAM, Geography. Critical cartographies)
• Marcos García (Citizen Laboratories)
• Víctor García (UCM, Faculty of Fine Arts. Community health doctor)
• Lila Insua (UCM, Faculty of Fine Arts)
• José Ramón Marcaida (CSIC, History of Science)
• Beatriz Ortega Fraile (Higher School of Design)
• Javier Pérez Iglesia (UCM, Faculty of Fine Arts Library)
• Ignacio Tejedo (UCM, Faculty of Fine Arts)
• María Tula (UCM, Faculty of Fine Arts / Architecture / Drawing and mediation)
• María Jesús Vázquez Gallo (Department of Mathematics and Computer Science Applied to Civil and Naval Engineering E.T.S. Ingen. Caminos, Canales y Puertos.)