CategoryInterview
“The spirit of patronage has been very much lost, and that saddens me”
Antoni Vila Casas
Antoni Vila Casas (Barcelona, 1930) has long donated part of his fortune to philanthropic projects. The foundation he set up has two directions: in the social...
“I think that the fear of death is what brings me to make films”
Carla Simón
In Estiu 1993 (Summer 1993), Carla Simón fictionalised her experience of being adopted by her aunt and uncle when she was six years old, following the death...
“There are no neurobiological reasons for discrimination”
Mara Dierssen
Mara Dierssen is a neurobiologist and one of the country’s major communicators of popular science. She studies the human brain, and, more specifically,...
“We must take responsibility for changing so that the world changes too”
Elvira Dyangani Ose
Photographers claim that some people make the camera fall in love. If that’s true, Elvira Dyangani Ose is one of those people. Those in high-ranking positions...
‘Most architects are not the elite or complicit in property speculation’
Carme Pinós
Carme Pinós is a truly trail-blazing architect. In 1991, she founded her own practice in a field where women were the exception, and after countless obstacles and...
‘The ones learning the most aren’t the actors with a disability, but rather the audience’
Clàudia Cedó
Clàudia Cedó’s (Banyoles, 1983) relationship with the city of Barcelona can be traced by mapping out the theatres where her plays have been premièred. This playwright...
“Languages that are in a bell jar do not evolve”
Teresa Cabré
The linguist and philologist Maria Teresa Cabré i Castellví (L’Argentera, 1947) was elected president of the Institut d’Estudis Catalans [IEC, Institute for Catalan...
“Dancing is inhabiting the body with emotion and the mind”
Cesc Gelabert
At 68, Cesc Gelabert still dances and boasts the same impeccable figure he had when he began to move on the Barcelona scene in the 1970s. He would have liked to be...
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