SubjectEconomy and business
Treading carefully and not looking too far ahead. The post-lockdown future of culture
Cancelling, postponing or rethinking. These are the options Barcelona’s cultural initiatives have had to decide between during the Covid-19 lockdown. Each project has...
Open city. The challenges of the futureImagining the symbiotic city
The COVID-19 crisis has been an anthropological shock, in other words, a dreadful experience for millions of people that will be forever etched on their memories and...
Open city. The challenges of the futureTowards collective vows of luxurious poverty
Rather than thinking of the city as a doomed reality, as a certain catastrophic environmentalism does, we can see it as a yet-to-be fulfilled promise that the...
Open city. The challenges of the futureThinking the cities of tomorrow
Times of crisis are also times of danger for democracy. Fear of the future can fuel the temptation to embrace an authoritarian response. What do we need to do to make...
The city after the pandemicAn opportunity for change
It is not by chance that the pandemic has especially hit big cities like Barcelona. Open to the world, its power of attraction and connectivity have made the city...
Sant Jordi versus coronavirus. Rescue bookshops and save books
23 April 2020. Like every year, Sant Jordi [St. George] has to slay the dragon, but this year the story has taken a different path and the enemy has mutated into a...
The city after the pandemicAntivirals for the new political times
The coronavirus pandemic, despite the economic impact that many predict, will not generate a widespread crisis of disaffection such as the one triggered by the Great...
The city after the pandemicWhat will the world be like after the crisis?
The coronavirus crisis will not mean the end of globalisation or of European integration, but an incentive to configure them differently. In the wake of crises there...
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