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![Shared bicycles run by a private operator, in a corner of the Plaça de la Sagrada Família square. © Albert Armengol Shared bicycles run by a private operator, in a corner of the Plaça de la Sagrada Família square. © Albert Armengol](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/bm_128_visionsurbanes_01_1100x548.jpg?itok=gbvEI_xj)
If Barcelona’s streets could speak, they would tell us that they have never seen so many different vehicles using their surface, and that they have never witnessed such rapid and...
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He wasn’t allowed salt, but he gave himself special dispensation when he was with his beloved fancy woman. Well, he did so every day, and Anselm was already long enough in the...
![The rhythms of 31 FAM draw on music from beyond the usual realms of influence. © Nil Ventura The rhythms of 31 FAM draw on music from beyond the usual realms of influence. © Nil Ventura](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/bm_128_pleccultura_tendencies_01_1100x548.jpg?itok=EfqB_Qom)
In the music of their era, every generation has found a vehicle for passing on values, lifestyles and collective aspirations. Lately, some of the most popular music genres have...
![Interior of Atlas Muhba Interior of Atlas Muhba](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/interior_llibre_muhba.jpg?itok=lieZxLlk)
The Atles MUHBA d’història de Barcelona [MUHBA Atlas of Barcelona History], published by Barcelona City Council and the Museu d’Història de Barcelona (MUHBA) – an institution...
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The quantity and quality of vegetation is a key factor for achieving a healthy city and combating climate change. Street trees provide shade and help to regulate the temperature...
![Co(AI)xistenceis a video installation by Justine Emard with Mirai Moriyama & Alter, developed by the lshiguro Lab at Osaka University and the Ikegami Lab at the University of Tokyo. © Justine Emard / Adagp, París 2018 Co(AI)xistenceis a video installation by Justine Emard with Mirai Moriyama & Alter, developed by the lshiguro Lab at Osaka University and the Ikegami Lab at the University of Tokyo. © Justine Emard / Adagp, París 2018](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/bm_128_pleccultura_exposicions_01_ample1100.jpg?itok=7XJ7y3TJ)
Under the banner of artificial intelligence, the world is being reconstructed on the basis of neurons, memories, imagination and thoughts, but also chips, databases,...
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Enrique Vila-Matas
Enrique Vila-Matas (Barcelona, 1949) has created a literary universe of his own. His writing captures and universalises, through subjectivity, the troubled air of his time. This...
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All the books by the philosopher Byung-Chul Han call for a return of negativity: instead of excessive transparency, secrecy; instead of an aesthetic of smoothness, roughness;...
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