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tags: Making For Change, Tinkering
title: Jugando con la LUZ
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###### categories: `Digital Fabrication` `Social Innovation` `Entrepenurial skills`

###### tags: `DOIT` `FLU` `Learning Experiences`

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# Curso - Jugando con la LUZ


















video: https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1187585435066929154/pu/vid/1280x720/0bNY5RqaNS1SEVat.mp4?tag=10

> This is a project inspired by ***[Light Play](https://www.exploratorium.edu/tinkering/projects/light-play)*** [The Tinkering Studio](https://www.exploratorium.edu/tinkering)

*Playing with Light ( Jugando con la luz ) is a project of the Future Learning Unit of IAAC Fab Lab Barcelona to accompany the educational community of the "escola Sant Martí Poble Nou" in the design and fabrication of an installation for the festival. **[Llum BCN Poblenou 2020](https://www-lameva.barcelona.cat/santaeulalia/es/llumbcn)** in the context of [Doit Europe](https://www.doit-europe.net/).*

Families and teachers collaborate in the creation of kinetic vignettes of light and shadow, reusing materials, developing their creativity and providing solutions to the challenges posed.

[](https://www.doit-europe.net/)

## Introduction
> traducción de Light Play

*Jugando con la Luz* allows you to explore light, shadow and movement using a variety of simple materials and light sources. Beginning with gently guided explorations of shadows, single and multiple light sources, three-dimensional and translucent objects, participants gain the **competence** and "light vocabulary" to **express their ideas**, and their **creativity** is triggered. They will work to construct kinetic vignettes of light and shadow, and eventually combine them into a collaborative installation.

### *The value of Jugando con la Luz*

*New uses for everyday objects*

- See common objects such as strawberry baskets, plastic netting, toys, mats that behave in surprising ways, leading to unexpected experiments and new tests of these things.

*It is a fun and entertaining way to learn about light and shadow.*

- This is a playful and creative way to explore light, shadows, reflections, refraction, symmetry and movement.

*Collaborative opportunities*

- Sharing each participant's kinetic sculpture in a collaborative ***"wall of light "*** is a good way for participants to contribute to the group's understanding of the installation.

*Reusable materials and components*

- Jugano con la Luz uses a set of materials that can be used over and over again, by a variety of participants, in different ways.

This installation attempts to demystify what it means to "make art "*** and ***what it looks like***, and ***who is allowed to make it***, using familiar materials that create unfamiliar and evocative effects, and manipulating an element that is literally everywhere: ***light*** .

## List of Materials

List of materials required for 1 module:

| Quantity | Material | Description | Image |
| -------- | -------------------------- | ------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------ |
| 1 | **Cardboard box** | Size aprox: 61cm x 46cm x 46cm |  |
| 2-3 | **Direct light sources** | Easy to adjust and move (2-3 / module) |  |
| 1-2 | **Geared motors** | are engines operating at 4-6 (rpm) |  |
| 1 kit 9v + 8 crocodile cables | **Power supply and crocodile cables** | To power lights and motors | |

* The **light sources** (2 or 3 per module) create clean, sharp shadows. The fact that they can be easily moved allows the size and scale of the projection to be explored. A distinction must be made between direct light sources and diffuse light sources.

* Power supplies and cables with alligator clips are important for powering light sources and/or slow motors. We offer both 9 volt and AA power supplies mounted on wooden blocks.


### Materials to share


- Cable ties, fishing line, ordinary wire, copper wire, wooden sticks


- Hand tools: Hot glue gun, pliers, painter's tape, cutters, scissors ...

### Objects for reflecting, bouncing and transforming light

- **Shapes, grids and repeating patterns**: Many familiar objects create interesting shadow patterns by rotating in a slow moving motor in relation to a stationary light source. We use transparencies with printed shapes or patterns, window screens, colanders, cheese graters, strawberry baskets, perforated boards, pencil container screens, etc. These grid-like shapes and shadows are also interesting to explore with multiple light sources.


- **Reflective objects and materials:** Look for objects and materials that reflect light in interesting ways. For example: the shiny inside of crisp bags, small plastic mirrors, sequined fabric, Christmas decorations, toy disco balls, and anything else you can find that reflects light.


- Coloured translucent gels and objects: Coloured lights and shadows add an interesting and beautiful look to the installation. We use pieces of coloured translucent plexiglass, acrylic shapes, coloured kitchen paper, plastic cups and bowls, textured fabric, iridescent cellophane, dichroic, transparent bottles filled with water and food colouring, etc.
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## Construction

#### Before you start...
Before you start experimenting, playing and building with light, you need to collect as many materials as possible for the use of the students (the amount varies depending on the number of participants). Most of them will be reusable every time you want to repeat this installation.

#### Construcción de 1 módulo
*We propose to make each module in teams of 2-3 people to make it a **collaborative** work.

Each module of this installation is made from a large cardboard box where both the front and the back have been cut out. To assemble the installation we simply stack several boxes on top of each other.


We used a 61cm x 46cm X 46cm box, with two 51cm x 36cm windows cut out of the larger sides. We covered one of the openings with a translucent HDPE (high density polyethylene) sheet that is just inside the box.

### Light sources

Light sources are pre-built and are provided for each group (usually two or three lights are provided for each module).
It is important to have fixed sources as lights (as opposed to diffused) that can be easily moved and adjusted.
**Fixed sources create clean, crisp shadows, and moving lights allow size and scale to be explored**.

## Intro

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## Team
- Future Learning Unit - Fab Lab Barcelona (Matías Verderau, Santi Fuentemilla y Xavi Domínguez)
- Col.legi Santi Martí

## Referencias
* [Jugando Con la Luz Blogpost](https://fablabbcn.org/blog/emergent-ideas/jugando_con_la_luz)

* [The Tinkering Studio](https://www.exploratorium.edu/tinkering)

## Photos and Videos