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7. SOCIAL DISSEMINATION
knowledge through experimentation, research kilometers. Manuela Carmena, was responsible
and development, implemented through for placing the first of these bubbles in Plaza de
various methodological strategies. During the Cibeles, in an urban action participated by 100
visit, CIEN Foundation researchers taught a volunteers.
series of lectures and highlt educational These points highlight the 'Performance
workshops in different areas: pathology, multidisciplinary conference' about Alzheimer's
neuropsychology and neuroimaging. disease from the scientific and social
perspective of art, delivered at the Plaza de
• Since October 2015, we could enjoy the Callao in Madrid by members of the Committee
exhibition "FromBubble", created by Daniel of Art and Science, including Dr. Miguel Medina.
Bagnon to raise awareness throughout society
of what Alzheimer's disease means in the 7.2. Awards and Honours
personal, family and social environment,
through the interaction of contemporary art Candidacy of Her Majesty Queen Sofia to the
with other scientific and social disciplines. Nobel Peace Prize
Queen Sofia inaugurated the exhibition on
October 30, accompanied by the mayor of For his personal commitment for years with Alzhei-
Madrid, Manuela Carmena; the Director of the mer's research, Her Majesty Queen Sofia has been
art project, Maria Paz Cotorelo; and the CIEN one of the candidates for the Nobel Peace Prize
Foundation Manager and member of the Art 2015, after being selected from the initial 273 nomi-
and Science Project, María Ángeles Pérez, who nations presented by national and international or-
along with the creative artist of this art proposal, ganizations.
Daniel Bagnon, visited the exhibit. Queen Sofia nomination, proposed by a university in
the southern United States, is due to its continuing
• The exhibition was open to the public until thrust to Alzheimer's disease research, a task to
January 24, 2016 on the third floor of Culture which we at CIEN Foundation, as management of-
and Citizenship Cibeles CentroCentro, a City of fice of the Alzheimer Project from Her Foundation,
Madrid cultural space located at Cibeles wanted to show our greatest support.
Palace, which also hosted numerous
conferences such as by Dr. Miguel Medina, or The Vallecas Project received
Javier de Felipe members of the CIEN the INESE Award at the XV edition of the
Foundation Scientific Advisory Committee, as
well as other activities related to Alzheimer's Insurance Solidarity Awards
disease. Noteworthy among other project
artworks, was the main piece 'Brain', a sculpture The Vallecas Project, being conducted by CIEN
located in the central room of the exhibition. Foundation with the support of the Queen Sofia
With FromBubble, Daniel Bagnon drawed a Foundation, was one of 25 selected out of 243 pro-
parallel between the Alzheimer's damaged posals that applied to the fifteenth edition of the In-
brain and a bubble element that represents the surance Solidarity Awards 2015, under the topic "The
complexity of the disease. In this way, he sought heart drive us" were awarded on 24 November in
to show not only the reality of the patient but Madrid.
also that people who go with them through this
struggle. In addition, to convey the message of Proposed by the Queen Sofia Foundation, the pro-
this artistic proposal to a much wider audience, ject has been chosen to be supported by one of the
FromBubble took to the streets of Madrid. 3,000
bubbles were placed in cultural and historical
points of the city, creating a route of over seven
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