Museo de Ciencias Naturales: Universidad de Navarra

Guía educactiva, tercer ciclo de primari

Can art museums help environmental education? An interdisciplinary vision to promote meaningful learning

Environmental education is a discipline that tries to find new methodologies and tools to advance in the achievement of its goals. The museum education proposed by art museums, because of its specific methods and power of significance, can be a way forward for environmental education that is worth exploring. The theory of meaningful learning can be used by both disciplines to support and achieve more meaningful, and therefore lasting, learning among people. The complementarity and synergy between these disciplines can be established from their points of conceptual coincidence. The main research goals of this article have been two: to study and show the intrinsic complementarity of these disciplines from a conceptual viewpoint, and to show how their combined strength and complementarity can inspire specific educational proposals for the challenges of education in the twenty-first century. For example, those that focus on educating on the complexity of the world. The presentation and discussion of this conceptual framework may suggest educational instructions that move towards the interdisciplinary nature of environmental education, using as an educational resource that which is housed in art museums.La educación ambiental es una disciplina que busca encontrar nuevas metodologías y herramientas para avanzar en el logro de sus metas. La educación museística propuesta por los museos de arte, debido a sus métodos específicos y su poder de importancia, puede ser un camino a seguir para la educación ambiental que vale la pena explorar. La teoría del aprendizaje significativo puede ser utilizada por ambas disciplinas para apoyar y lograr un aprendizaje más significativo y, por lo tanto, duradero entre las personas. La complementariedad y sinergia entre estas disciplinas se puede establecer a partir de sus puntos de coincidencia conceptual. Los principales objetivos de investigación de este artículo han sido dos: estudiar y mostrar la complementariedad intrínseca de estas disciplinas desde un punto de vista conceptual, y mostrar cómo su fuerza y complementariedad combinadas pueden inspirar propuestas educativas específicas para los desafíos de la educación en el siglo XXI. siglo. Por ejemplo, aquellos que se enfocan en educar sobre la complejidad del mundo. La presentación y discusión de este marco conceptual puede sugerir instrucciones educativas que avancen hacia la interdisciplinariedad de la educación ambiental, utilizando como recurso educativo lo que se alberga en los museos de arte

A guide and two untime chronicles to contemplate Rothko's work

The experience offered by a museum to a visitor can have different nature and importance for everyone. Each artwork is perpetually sending a message to the viewer, possibly creating an art-person link. This link can provide experiences of great significant power to the visitor. The article below aims to delve into the facilitation of these experiences in the case of the paintings created by the artist Mark Rothko work (1903-1970). Their special characteristics mean that they can be called "Rothko experiences". As a result, a guide to viewing the work, based on the artist's recommendations, has been developed which can facilitate the emergence of these so-called "Rothko experience". Specifically, some of the multiple "realityaesthetical-art" connections experienced between Rothko's work and people whom observation incorporate an aesthetical and metaphysical dimension of reality are presented. To help in the understanding of these profound experiences and the aesthetical education of sensibility, the narrative method is used through two chronicles that gather the experiences lived by the authors in their contemplation of Rothko's work. These chronicles are examples that can help to understand the possibilities of Rothko's contemplative painting. The result is a synthetic study of Rothko work conceptualization, through one guide and the narrative dialectics between two "Rothko experiences" to show his aesthetical way of thinking, represented in his paintings

Los programas de escuela taller. Una aproximación conceptual al modelo educativo del aprendizaje-servicio

Las Escuelas Taller son programas educativos para jóvenes que, desde el año 1985, desarrollan una formación profesional para el empleo. Estos programas utilizan metodologías eminentemente prácticas a través de la realización de obras y servicios que responden a un interés social. Por otra parte, el aprendizaje-servicio (service-learning) se presenta como un modelo educativo cuya metodología ofrece contrastadas ventajas educativas. La presencia de algunos aspectos comunes entre ambas metodologías puede llevar a considerar los programas de Escuela Taller como uno de los programas que utilizan el modelo educativo del Aprendizaje-Servicio y, por lo tanto, como una válida opción a utilizar desde la Orientación Profesional en los centros de Educación Secundaria

El viaje de Winkle. Educación de la complejidad de medio ambiente para jóvenes de 12-13 años

Se explica la complejidad para alumnado de 12-13 año

The Integrated Renovation of High-Rise Hotels on the Spanish Mediterranean Coast

In terms of construction and energy efficiency, Spain has one of the highest indexes of obsolete buildings among the developed countries. In the case of high-rise hotel buildings, this problem is further added to by the low levels of safety in the case of fire. The development of tourism in the 1950s and 60s led to the construction of a large number of high-rise hotels with 30+ floors. Initially, they conformed to lax, undemanding regulations regarding fire resistance in their structural components, fire escape routes, protected staircases, and so on. The requirements of today’s regulations in this field, contained in the Basic SI Technical Building Code Document, often make the renovation of these buildings an impossible task. Installing specially protected staircases can entail traumatic modifications that are sometimes unviable due to structural conditions or economic considerations. Furthermore, the building’s energy efficiency and CO2 emissions do not correspond to environmentally-friendly practices. This paper examines the above questions with regard to the Hotel Tryp Gran Sol in Alicante, Spain. The hotel is 97 m high and has 31 floors. The integrated renovation of the hotel requires serious reflection upon the building’s global response to personal safety, its envelope components and its air conditioning. Architectural solutions and the building’s economic viability for future exploitation as an important element in the building’s life cycle assessment (LCA) are discussed

Healthy climate and energy savings: using thermal ceramic panels and solar thermal panels in mediterranean housing blocks

Radiant surface conditioning systems based on capillary tube mats not only provide high standards of comfort, but they also generate substantial energy savings. These systems allow for using renewable energies such as solar thermal panels because they function with water at moderate temperatures¿lower in winter and higher in summer¿compared to fan-coil systems or hot water radiator systems. Moreover, in summer, they can be combined with solar cooling systems based on lithium chloride or absorption systems based on lithium bromide, which enable the cooling of water at 15¿16 C by means of solar thermal panel energy collection. This further reduces the annual energy. The purpose of this study was to examine the application of thermal ceramic panels (TCP) containing prolipropylen (PPR) capillary tube mats, in residential buildings in the Spanish Mediterranean. The water distribution system was set up individually from a heat pump and was combined with a community system of solar thermal panels. After monitoring a home over a complete one-year cycle, the annual energy demand was quantified through simulations, based on both the radiant system and the VRV system, as well as in combination with a thermal solar panel system. TCP panels reduced the annual energy demands by 31.48%, and the additional investment cost of  11,497 could be amortized over 23.31 years. The combination of TCP panels with 18.5 m2 of solar thermal panels reduced the annual energy demand by 69.47%, and the inv

Earthen vernacular architecture in flood-prone areas: characteristics and typologies in the Ebro basin

[EN] Earthen architecture is one of Spain's longest-standing construction traditions, used from antiquity to the mid-twentieth century. Given its hygroscopic nature, earthen architecture is generally seen as barely resistant to water and as more associated with geographical areas with hot and dry climates. However, it is found in different places with different climate and geographical characteristics. In these surroundings, its survival over time has been ensured by a process of adaptation and modification producing architectural and constructive forms which reflect the identity of the geographical areas in question. One of the main risks to earthen architecture are floods, which have always represented a threat to this architectural heritage. The increased frequency and intensity of floods due to climate change have in turn gradually given rise to an increasing risk of disappearance for this architectural heritage. This paper aims to study the typologies and features of earthen vernacular architecture in flood-prone areas through the analysis of case studies in the Ebro basin. The study of earthen buildings in the area under study provides information on the most recurrent architectural features and vulnerabilities, as well as the inherent resistance which has enabled this earthen architectural heritage to survive. Moreover, a study of the pathologies and structural damage visible on buildings highlights those which are a direct consequence of the action of water and can potentially affect structural behaviour during a flood. Aiming to establish conservation strategies for earthen architectural heritage the data collected are analysed using a qualitative vulnerability assessment methodology, establishing the degree of influence of individual characteristics on the response of earthen structures to floods.This work is part of the research project “Earthen architecture in the Iberian Peninsula: study of natural, social and anthropic risks and strategies to improve resilience” Risk-Terra (ref. RTI2018-095302-B-I00; main researchers: Camilla Mileto and Fernando Vegas), funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and University.Trizio, F.; Torrijo Echarri, FJ.; Mileto, C.; Vegas López-Manzanares, F. (2022). Earthen vernacular architecture in flood-prone areas: characteristics and typologies in the Ebro basin. Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València. 205-212. https://doi.org/10.4995/HERITAGE2022.2022.1450320521

Enhancement of nonlinear optical phenomena by localized resonances

Nonlinear optics at the nanoscale is severely limited by the small departure of available materials from linear behavior. Despite intense efforts placed into overcoming this problem using multiple strategies for enhancing the near-field light intensity, all-optical active nanodevices remain a challenge. Here we introduce a material-independent scheme for quantifying the enhancement of the nonlinear response in nanostructures assisted by proximal metallic or dielectric nanoresonators. The proposed figures of merit, which we apply to configurations of current interest incorporating 2D materials and dielectric cavities, can be generally used to optimize nonlinear nanoscale elements.Peer ReviewedPostprint (author's final draft