Month: June 2012

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National Museum of National Sciences

The National Museum of Natural Sciences of Madrid offers a temporary exhibition of the evolution of Darwin on the occasion of the bicentennial of the birth of Charles the Darwins and the 150 anniversary of the publication of its more revolutionary work, the origin of the species. The visitors will be able to know first hand the scientific principles of the Theory of the Evolution, the biography of the author, the social and religious context of their time and the situation in Spain in the s. XVIII. This interesting exhibition, organized by Banco Santander Foundation and the Foundation Calouste Gulbenkian of Lisbon, was inaugurated month of July the past and it will be possible to be visited until the 10 of January of the next year. The sample will captivate to peculiar with variety of objects and the pieces of incalculable value like hand-written letters, original documents, images, audio-visual material, reproductions and works, yielded by many national and international institutions. The fascinating exhibition also counts on materials of the own exhibition of the Museum like unit of birds and mammals, amphibians and reptiles, fish and invertebrates, chorales, fossils, flowers of the past century and a skeleton of okapi, among others.

This route by the evolution of Darwin is distributed in five thematic scopes: The scientific context before century XIII, the precursors of Darwin, the history and biography of Darwin, the genetics and, finally, the darwinismo in Spain. In order to culminate with the celebration of the darwinismo the National Museum of Natural Sciences it recently celebrated a cycle of conferences and scientific cinema. The lovers of science have an inescapable appointment in Madrid. The exhibition can be visited of Tuesday Friday of 10 to 18 hours, Saturdays of 10 to 20 hours and Sundays and festive of 10 to 14:30 hours. The evolution of Darwin discovers and reserves to the best supplies and discounts of hotels in Madrid with LateRooms.com.

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RECYCLED WOODEN PALLETS

Fernanda Kriger Summary: One understands that the main objective of the Design must be to more good become the life of the people, by means of thought and well planned products and environments, and this involves one high degree of maturity, understanding and Real agreement of the social, economic and psychological dimensions of the users on the part of who not only projects, but also of who it produces and vende. Inside of the concept of ecodesign strategies exist that facilitate the reaproveitamento of the products or the incorporated materials in it, drawing out the useful life of the same ones. I reuse, remanufatura and recycling is the more used strategies of reaproveitamento. Designer can contribute with a process that makes possible the reaproveitamento of materials or components. This if makes possible through the use of the projected products as support of information on as to proceed to facilitate the recycling of the materials, beyond improving the perception of consumer in relation to the recycled material through the aesthetic one of the product. In this direction, the project presented here, contributes in accordance with for ecodesign, using material and processes the concept, bringing for a devoid parcel of the society a significant social benefit.

Word-Key: Design, Materials and Processes, Bed, Population of low income, Pallets, Ecodesign. 1. INTRODUCTION We bring for quarrel the project of an object of design with sustainable characteristics. We will approach sustainable concept of support, materials, enclosed population and Projetual methodology. With the increasing population of low income, the creation of cheap and sustainable projects is noticed necessary to decide some of its necessities. In our state, mainly in our city, the winter is sufficiently rigorous, and has many people, mainly children, sleeping on the soil directly, that is humid and cold.