With Future Remote 2014 we will be able to discover the sea and its depths through an exhibition that includes exhibitions, documentaries and a film festival
The traditional Neapolitan appointment with Remote Future. A journey between science and science fiction it now reaches the 28th edition and will take place in the spaces of City of Science. This is a great project that every year deals with the dissemination of scientific and technological culture, making it understandable to anyone.
Also this year all the events will revolve around a common theme and this year will be the Seaside, which will be discussed through a huge exhibition of about 1000mq that will include lectures-shows, debates and meetings with scientists, scientific and creative laboratories, shows and a review of films and documentaries.
The main exhibitions of the whole event will be two: GNAM - Mare and Orizzonte Mare.
The inaugural event will be held tonight 31 October 2014, while all the event will last until November 9.
GNAM Mare
The event is promoted by the Department of Agriculture, Forestry, Hunting and Fishing of the Campania Region with the aim of raising consumers' awareness on fishing and aquaculture products. Addressing especially to the youngest, the exhibition aims to inform about the healthy and correct consumption of fish products, focusing on the most used fishing techniques and interacting through a series of interactive installations. The topic can also be explored through the observation of aquariums and tactile tanks, with virtual and augmented reality and using multimedia technologies. In this way, you will catapult in realistic walk on the seabed.
Among the most particular events there will be what allows the life and strategies of vertebrate and invertebrate organisms, even discovering in detail the life of a mussel.
More info are available on the page dedicated to GNAM Mare.
Sea horizon
The second most important exhibition of the event was born from the participatory planning of citizens and scientists who, working together, gave life to the 8 exhibition sections that accompany the public to discover the themes of research and responsible innovation applied to the sea.
The journey will begin at the entrance, where it will be possible to download themultimedia application which will allow interaction with the exhibits present
Then you will walk through the rooms discovering a large digital globe that will show in real time the atmospheric and biological phenomena related to the sea, you will observe the underwater volcanic phenomena, you will understand the functioning of submarine robots and talk about renewable energy.
Other exhibitions
Revolutionary Inventions from Ancient China
An exhibition of ancient instruments from the China Science and Technology Museum in Beijing, precisely from the exhibition “The Glory of China”. Forty astronomical instruments and the field of navigation which testify to China's influence in the innovation sector. There will be two sundials, one of which dates back to the 526rd century BC, an incense clock from the Ming dynasty, an XNUMXth century celestial globe representing the movements of the stars, a scale copy of the astronomical clock from Ancient China, a atlas of comets done on silk, an astronomical map from XNUMX AD
In the navigation sector we will find various types of compasses, very avant-garde for those centuries, and various models of Chinese ships dating back to over two thousand years ago.
Furthermore, the first simograph of history, dating back to 132 AD, which in addition to indicating the earthquake could even signal the direction of the earthquake.
Urban Bees. The bees of your city
Discovering the more than 2000 bees that live in parks, gardens and city streets, their habits and ways of life. We will go to the discovery, in particular, of wild bees.
Naples Underwater
Photographic exhibition with particular attention to underwater photographs portraying the organisms of the Mediterranean Sea. It will also be a tribute to the naturalistic, archaeological and landscape heritage of Naples
My seas
Pictorial exhibition by the artist Rossella Baldino who paints seascapes, focusing on the power of the stormy sea and the breaking waves.
Full immersion
With the tecinca of the dripping, the painter Cristiana Grandolfo gives a personal interpretation of the sea and the emotions it arouses, through an explosion of colors and polychrome spots.
In a puddle
An exhibition of photos depicting small plants and animals that inhabit the Apulian coralligenous stretches. They are tiny inhabitants of that marine area that have very fascinating shapes and colors and an interesting biology for scientists.
CINEmareMOTO
A film festival with films whose themes will obviously concern the sea and its sea depths. Many films in the program, including science, science fiction and animation.
documentaries
The most beautiful documentaries of National Geographic on the ocean and its secrets, the most fascinating islands in the world, on the protection of the marine habitat and an excursus also on our areas, Amalfi in particular.
About 2014 Remote Future
When: from 31 October to 9 November 2014
Where: City of Science
Prezzi:
- Adults 8 €
- Reduced (3-17 and over 65) 5,5 €
- School admission € 5,5
Info:
- tel: 081 7352 220 | 081 7352 222
- email: contact@cittadellascienza.it
- To know the complete calendar of all the other events of the event, consult the 2014 Remote Future site
