Rita Caré . 25 July 2017 . ITQB NOVA

Science out of the Box Roundtable:

Urban Sketching &

Science Communication

Rita Caré | Biology | Science Communication | Urban Sketcher since 2009

Hello everyone!First I want to thanks to Summer Science Organization and to ITQB for invited me to join you. Now, I will show you a very special activity I’ve been engaged with since 2009 –URBAN SKETCHING – and how I’ve been including it on science communicationactivities of Gulbenkian Institute and ITQB NOVA.

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Joined Urban SketchingCommunity in 2009

Organizing USk meetings since 2013

Doing Live Sketching

~ 3x / weekBy Ana Ferreira

I’ve joined Urban Sketchers Community since 2009 and organizing USk Meetings since 2013.

Depending of my own wishes and time available I do live sketching 3-5 times per week (each double page takes about 20 to 40 minutes of observation, sketching andwriting).

This page is an example and it was sketched in the context of an exhibition aboutsubmarine cables that allow us all to access internet and to use communications.

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USk Internationalhttp://www.urbansketchers.org

> XXX 000 (?) Sketchers in the world> 35 Countries> 150 groups

USk Portugalhttp://urbansketchers-portugal.blogspot.pt

>>> 500 (??) Sketchers in Portugal> 20 groups> Dozens of meetings / year

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LOGO - “It represents a sketchbook as well as different windows or ways to see the world from every sketcher’s vantage point.”

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USk Portuguese Groups Known

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WatercolorBrushpen

+ Pen

WatercolorTravel Kit

Chair

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Sketchbooks

My favoriteSketching

Tools / Materials

Sketchbooks

By Ana Mena

These are my favorite sketching tools to keep stories of the sketched moments on mymemory:sketchbooks, pens, watercolor kit, waterbrush pen, a small chair and a hat.

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UrbanSketchersat Train

Museum

By Ana Ferreira

By Ana Ferreira

Here are more examples of drawings done in the Trains Museum at Entroncamento.

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We share our sketches

We draw& learn

together

By Ana Ferreira

As you see in these photos, many people join together to draw on their sketchbooks. We share ou sketches.We draw and we learn together about the best solutions to interpret and solve what we observe and to include it into our drawings. Live sketching is like to make a puzzle of lines, colors, washes and textures.

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USk Portugal explore

HISTORY & CULTUREthrough sketches…

… and what aboutSKETCHINGSCIENCE ?!?

Urban Sketchers use to organized dozens of meetings in Portugal every year. Sketchers explore the History and the Culture available Through their drawings.

But almost none about Science… !!!

So...

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Sketchersagain at IGC Open Day2016… ?

Yes!

… What do you think of

USkmeetings...?

… drawing atPlant

FascinationDay ITQB

2015?Ok!

… USkP at IGC Open Day 2014

… ? What… ?Humm…

Ok!

… sketchingat ITQB

Open Day2015?Yes!

… “Rabiscos no ITQB” again at

Open Day2017?Yes!

Sponsor ofSketching PlantFascination Day

2015 & 2017

In 2014, I’ve talked with Ana Mena, Head of Communication Office of Instituto Gulbankian de Ciência - and also a dear friend for 20 years -, and we manage to organize an USk meeting included in the IGC Open Day 2014. We did it again in 2016.

In 2015, I’ve talked with Ana Sanches, the former Head of Communication Office ofITQB NOVA and we’ve organized 2 meetings in 2015: on the Fascination Plant Day andon the ITQB Open Day 2015 with the support of Center for Biotechnology Informationthat sponsared my work and the materials (sketchbooks, watercolors and markers).

In 2017, I’ve talked with Joana Lobo Antunes, now the Head of Communication Office of ITQB NOVA and again we organized meeetings at ITQB Open Day 2017.

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SketchingScience

at ITQB NOVA 2017

Online EXHIBITION“Rabiscos no ITQB 2017”

http://rabiscos.itqb.unl.pt

Visit it!!

By Cirenia Arias Baldrich

Now, I will show you some results of those meetings in 2017 at ITQB NOVA during theguided visits with the PhD student José Salvado, about his research at PLANT CELL BIOTECHNOLOGY LAB of Pedro Fevereiro, and with Carlota Vaz Patto, Head of Plant X - GENETIC AND GENOMICS OF PLANT COMPLEX TRAITS.

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By Rita Caré

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By Olga Lalanda

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By Carlota Vaz Patto

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By Margarida Retorta

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I always dreamed of looking like

David Attenborough

Rita, whatare you

doing ?!?

I’m huntingsketches…

+ Information & Presentation athttps://papiropapirus.wordpress.com . rita.s.care@gmail.com

By Amélia Monteiro

Thank you so much for all those who make these activities possible!Thank you to the authors!Thank you also to Pedro Fevereiro, President of Center for Biotecnology Informationfor support my sketching science activities with ITQB NOVA.

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LINKS of online Exhibitions – Urban Sketching & Science

Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência Open Day 2014https://diaaberto14.wordpress.com/urban-sketchers

Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência Open Day 2016https://diaaberto16.wordpress.com

Rabiscos no ITQB NOVA (2015 & 2017)http://rabiscos.itqb.unl.pt

Other LINKS

Urban Sketchers Portugalhttp://urbansketchers-portugal.blogspot.pt

Foto&Sketchers 2 Linhas | Cascais-Lisboa-Sintrahttps://fotosketchers2linhas.blogspot.pt

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