Activities

A STROLL ALONG THE BORDER OF SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR. Routes around Barcelona explained from a social neuroscientific perspective.

Cities contain significant traces of how man interacts with his own kind. Each one of these itineraries proposes a theme which introduces the key concepts of social neuroscience through observation and analysis of citizens from various environments’ behavior, such as in a marketplace, and its historic and scientific contextualization.

La Barcelona eterna. La muerte frente al espejo

No hay mayor enigma para el hombre que el de la muerte. A lo largo de la historia, religiones, ritos y ceremonias han aparecido con el fin de dar sentido a lo inexplicable. ¿Qué implicaciones tiene la concepción de muerte? ¿Somos los únicos capaces de anticiparla? ¿Cómo nos relacionamos con ella? La ciencia comienza a aportar nuevos datos que explican los entresijos que esconde la idea de muerte. Parece ser que un sofisticado proceso neuronal, fruto de la evolución de miles de millones de años, ha dado lugar a la autoconsciencia, a la identidad, al saberse único e irrepetible. Este conocimiento, que poseen algunos animales, se manifiesta en su mayor grado en los seres humanos y es responsable de la noción de muerte. El itinerario La Barcelona eterna. La muerte frente al espejo propone un paseo por el cementerio de Poblenou durante el cual se repasan las diferentes miradas con las que el ser humano se ha enfrentado a ella. Al fin y al cabo, la muerte nos marca desde el nacimiento, y su presencia es una constante en nuestra vida. Intentar comprenderla implica comprendernos mejor a nosotros mismos y al mundo que nos rodea.

Next Date: 27 th of December Place where to meet: Poblenou cementiry (c/ Taulat nº2) Length: 2 hours Price: Free Previous inscription required: Please send an e-mail with your contact information to cqc@cbsa.es to sign up.

Previous itinerary: Commercial Barcelona — A walk around the streets of the subconscious.

Which processes of the brain appear while we’re shopping? Are we aware of all of them? Over the past years, commercial architecture has developed a series of strategies to create spaces and environments in which to better exploit our consumer instincts. Surprisingly, the expertise of such manoeuvres often resides in cerebral processes which are activated without us even realising it. Along the route, the streets of Barcelona uncover corners of the subconscious that we involuntarily visit as we go shopping. If you wish to celebrate privately this itinerary, please, contact to cervell.social@uab.cat

Director of the activity “A STROLL ALONG THE BORDER OF SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR”: Beatriz Barco, with a degree in biology from the University of Barcelona, she has been working for the past eight years as a scientific journalist for various publishing houses, audiovisual products, as well as a television programme on TVE2 called “Redes.”

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