Data sheet

  • Year: 2023

  • Customer: Fundació Joan Oró

  • Surfice: 200 m2

  • Type: Itinerary Exhibition

  • Works: Setting of the museografía for the itinerant exposure with motive of the centenary of the birth of Joan Oró: «Joan Oró, to the research of the life». It includes the approach of itinerant modules, the drawing in 3D of the components of the exposure, the scenography, maquetas, adaptation of the space, the construction of graphic signposts in dibond, electrical installations, carpentry and painting for adaptation of the room.

  • Designer: Frederic Perers, Estudi Jordi Tamayo

Thematic

Joan Oró to the research of the origin of the Life constitutes the most complete exposure organised never around the big scientist, and is at the same time one of the most ambitious proposals of the Year Joan Oró, that commemorates the centenary of the birth of the Catalan biochemist. The sample presents, for the first time to the public, a big quantity of relative documentation to all his life, so much professional like personnel. It is foreseen that from the 2024 the sample travel also to the rest of Catalan demarcations.

The exposure includes explanatory signposts with photographs (the majority of the fund of the Fundación Joan Oró) relacionadas con la vida y trayectoria profesional del investigador, desde la infancia a su etapa profesional en los EE.UU., incidiendo también en su legado como promotor de sistemas de investigación e innovación que han ayudado a desarrollar la ciencia en Catalunya

This divides in the fields:
1-What is the life?
Field that includes an audiovisual on the diversity of the life in the earth
Conditions of the primitive earth
DNA Scenography
2-I will devote me to study the origin of the life
Field that reproduces the life of Oró in his first years, in his familiar life splitting of the familiar business
Stage of student in Barcelona
Diverse objects eat: books of youth, blocs of notes, Cards to EUA, response of Crimp it University
3-The Adenine
Field that explains his big discovery of the Adenine through the scenography of his laboratory.
It contains audiovisual pills in which expert in the scientific field explain the importance of the work and of the discoveries of the scientist.
4-We are alone?
Field that explains the first collaboration with the NASA in 1963.
It exposes also lunar samples and the maqueta Viking
5- Joan Oró Universe
Field that explains the relations of Oró and his contribution to the environmentalism, renewable energies. As well as his facet defender of the use of the science pacificadora and his catalanidad
6-I also want to be scientific
Field that collects testimony of professional youngsters (engineers, physicists, biologists) that explain inspiring facts that promoted them to work in the fields of the science and technology.
And it invites to take part actively in the exposure through two interactive games, the first on the DNA and the second with questions on Joan Oró posed like a review of the contents of the exposure.