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3D-printed microscopes + Amazonia
Place: Museum of tomorrow
Fund: IBM and British Council I designed, produced and facilitated 1 workshop for 60 teachers from public and private schools on how to build a low-cost microscope. Lenses were taken from electronic waste, attached to a 3d-printed clip and coupled them to a smartphone camera for microscopic documentation of samples I collected in the Amazon region. Narratives focused in bio-circular economy and sustainability. |
3D-printed hardware + Microcelfie
Place: Catavento Cultural Museum
Fund: City of São Paulo. I designed, produced and facilitated 6 workshops for a total of 120 participants that were visiting the museum on how to build a low-cost microscope. Convergent lenses were taken from electronic waste, attached to a 3d-printed clip and coupled to a smartphone camera for microscopic documentation of their own skin, epidermis of plants and the wings of preserved butterflies. |
DNA + Biotechnologies
Place: SESC Madureira
Fund: SESC Rio de Janeiro I designed, produced and facilitated 12 workshops for a total of 240 participants that were visiting the non-profit organization located on how to build DNA-inspired paper lamps and e-postcards by using eletronic components from eletronic waste and paper engeneering such as origami. They did DNA extraction with kitchen reagents and created a paper tube rack. |
Laser-cut microscope + Pixelart*
Place: SESC Avenida Paulista *page 20-21
Fund: Sesc São Paulo. I designed, produced and facilitated 1 workshop for 10 participants that were visiting the non-profit institution on how to build a low-cost microscope. Lenses were rearranged inside an obsolete webcam and attached to a laser-cut support, and conected to a computer software to show pixels on the screen of technologies that were displaying memorable pictures chosen by participants. |
Paper microscope + Invisible World*
Place: University of Brasilia (UnB). *page 5
Fund: Brazilian Society for the Progress of Science. I designed, produced and facilitated 3 workshops for a total of 30 participants that were taking part of a science course to learn how to assemble and use a low-cost microscope made out of paper (Foldscope). Participants fold the parts and coupled them with magnetic discs that hold a lense that magnifies samples put in a paper slide; showing the "invisible". |
Basic eletronics + Creative Learning
Place: eLABorando / SESI Festival of Robotics.
Fund: SESI. I co-facilitated of 1 workshop for a total of 70 participants (mostly kids with their families), which were visiting a Festival of Robotics organized by SESI school, on how to build simple eletronic circuits in a variety of contexts chose by the participants. The final products were unpredictable and followed the steps of Creative Learning created by MIT Media lab. |
Design of elementary school books
Organization: ELEVA - private educational system
I wrote several parts of the curriculum and did the design, curatorial process and tests of several low-cost experiments in the field of biotechology, computational creativity, digital identity and interactivity for 5 books (TEC) with MAKER projects for kids. Experiments included the making of simple wearables, yeast growth, conductive ink, basic circuits, robots, kitchen science etc. |
Writing of Report on DIYBio-Biohacking*
Organization: Movimento MAIS *not open
I researched a large amount of information on the DIYBio-Biohacking Movement in the USA, Europe and Brazil and summarized them in a report. I included references, educational kits, materials and trendy themes for STEAM workshops with digital technologiees and biotechnologies. I also designed workshop that could be used in the educational program Acesse by SESI school. |
Engagement strategies for Citizen Science
Organization: LABEA-UFBA / A.B.E.L.H.A
I was part of a team of researchers and designers that co-created visual and workshop strategies for engaging the general public in the documentation of pollinators found in a Brazilian national park as part of the Citizen Science (CS) project "Guardiões da Chapada". It aims to collect large data (photos) with the help of the general public for accessing biodiversity and draw conservation strategies. |
Microzonia
Place: Amazonia forest, rivers, cities and communities
Fund: Conector Ciência I created and implemented a science outreach project in the Amazon region. I travelled to cities and traditional communities by boat from Manaus to Belem with portable microscopes in my backpack. I used them to document the local microscopic biodiversity and connected the microscopic images with watercolor paintings of samples and sustainability narratives. |
Makers in Schools
Place: CERPV (public school) in Bahia
Fund: Conector Ciência / Oxenti Menina. I created and implemented a science and technology course for students and teachers of a state-owned school. Participants built a range of solution reusing plastic bottles (including a mosquito trap and toys), a smart house with light controled by ligh-sensor + Arduino board and coding of an Android app that gamifies the search for mosquitos that have the dengue virus. |
The Invisible World
Place: Inova Education (NGO) in Bahia
Fund: Conector Ciência / Foldscope I co-created with a team composed by a designer, two movie makers and several teachers a citizen science project in which kids developed their own science projects using a low-cost microscope known as Foldscope and the scientific method. Students investigated their own questions and hypotheses. They then reported their findings in visual formats. |
Digital Biohacking Instalation
Place: FRONT Media Lab
Fund: FRONT Media Lab / Ford Foundation I designed the concept and participated in the building of a sciart instalation that was visited by hundreds of people in the Scratch Day. The instalation was composed by two petri-dishes connect to a Makey-Makey board that once touched released a code made with Scratch block language. The simulated growth of bacteria making the format of two hands were then projected on the ceiling. |
Science and Art for All Exhibit
Place: Artbio Brasil / 4 public schools in Rio.
Fund: Artbio / D'Or / Brazilian Ministry of Culture I designed, produced and facilitated 24 workshops for a total of more than 700 elementary-school students on how to build and use three types of microscopes (3d-printed, laser-cut and paper engineered) to photograph samples with their smartphones in order to build artistic, visual narratives for an art exhibit (MACB) and film documentary produced by the Sciart collective Artbio. |
Painting with Transgenic Bacteria
Place: Idea Real biolab / UFMG
Fund: Conector Ciência I experimented using bacteria as a media for painting in petri dishes in a community lab located inside of a public university. I wanted to investigate its potencial for sciece workshops aimed to reach the general public. I have been trained on biosafety and have scientific training to work with bacteria that has been chaged by external genes that allow them to glow green or red under UV light. |
DIYBio: the Maker Movement of Biology
Bio Summit 2019 - MIT
Place: São Paulo The Bio Summit is an internacional meeting at MIT that gathers researchers, artists, educators, makers, hackers and police makers interested in democratization of science. I presented my educational work with underprivileged communities in Brazil, showing the results of my workshops in discussing the socioeconomic implications related to the democratization of science . |
Brazilian Biohackers and Biohack Education
Campus Party Brazil
Place: São Paulo This is the largest event of technology in Brazil. I presented my talk for a large crowd of engineers, educators and activists about scientific research and technological development done outside of universities, for example, citizen science and DIYBio/DITScience made by individuals, schools, museus, NGOs, makerspaces and hackerspaces that are changing the ways we do science. |
Skull Evolution and 3D Reconstruction*
European Society for Evo-Devo Biology. *page 30
Place: Uppsala University This is one of the most important meetings in the field of biology in Europe. I presented my talk for a large crowd of researchers about the use of 3D reconstruction methods and digital geometrical analyses of bone shape to study the relationship between form and function in skeletons and its underlying molecular mechanisms. I did my research at the Institute of Biotechnology in Helsinki. |
Nature Communications Journal
Nature is the most influencial scientific journal to date. I published this paper on the evolution of shape-function of skull bones in snakes and lizards using Big Data of 3d-reconstructed skuls acquired with computer-tomography scans and use of algoritms for ancestral recostruction on a phylogenetic tree of DNA and morphological data. This works was the first of its kind for this vertebrate group.
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Porvir Magazine
I published this news piece that described to an audience of educators the process of making and results of the Citizen Science project "The Invisible World" that I co-designed with a graphic designer, two movie makers and several teachers. That was the first time a school used Foldscope in Brazil. The school continues to foster other science projects by their studets inspired by this project.
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Science Workshop Tutorials
I have also been largely working on the open science and open licenses in my ow projects. I periodically publich on social media (and soon in scientific papers) the manuals, processes, results and references of my workshops. Many of the resources I use to build such workshops and its references are also from open-access sources. In some projects, the information/results have been protected.
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Come to visit my studio at Sähinä Cultural Center
Heikkiläntie 10, 00210 - Lauttasaari / Helsinki. Phone number: +358 44 974 7093. I design educational products and STEAM workshops for schools, NGOs, Start-Up, museums, galleries, events and citizen science/sciart projects. Instagram: @conector_ciencia filipe.filip@gmail.com |
