Next Saturday, October 22nd, starting at 10 am, the Research and Action Group on Conflicts, Risks and Impacts Associated with Dams (CRIAB) at Unicamp will hold the “Science in the Square” event, with the aim of bringing the knowledge produced by the University to society. The meeting will be held at Praça do Coco, in Barão Geraldo, and will expose to the public the projects currently carried out by undergraduate, master's and doctoral students, teachers and staff who participate in the initiative.
CRIAB, led by professor Jefferson Picanço, from the Institute of Geosciences at Unicamp, is a group that aims to develop studies and actions with a view to minimizing the impacts generated by mining tailings dams and preventing new tragedies from occurring. It was formed in 2019, shortly after the collapse of the Córrego do Feijão Mine Dam, in the Minas Gerais municipality of Brumadinho, and has professionals and students from areas as diverse as geology, mathematics, journalism, biology, engineering, linguistics and sociology.
“We are excited about bringing science to the public. To make the population aware of what we do and what will still be done by the University, in addition to listening to what it has to suggest to us”, comments professor José Mario Martinez, who leads the thematic group (GT) of CRIAB “Engineering and Mathematics”, whose objective is to apply mathematical knowledge to the problem of dams, aiming to develop models for predicting new tragedies.
The event will begin with the installation of posters produced by the students. It will also feature the presentation, in cordel format, of the book that CRIAB produced on the results of the Group's first three years of activities, which also includes the “Physical and Biotic Environment” GTs, aimed at studying the impacts of Brumadinho's disruption of the environment, and “Education and Society”, which develops scientific dissemination and memory creation initiatives about what happened.
In addition, the event will also feature a metaphorical game, aimed at children, with the aim of talking to children about the consequences of their actions for the planet. “It's a game that people from the Institute of Mathematics and Scientific Computing did during the Open Doors University event and aims to show children that rebuilding something that has been broken is something much more complex than destroying it”, says Professor Martínez.
Information:
Date: 22 / 10 / 2022
Where: Coconut Square
Time: 10h to 12h
Address: Rua José Martins, 738 – Barão Geraldo, Campinas.
