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Open city. The challenges of the futureThe far right and authoritarian populism, challenges for liberal democracy
The surfacing of far-right or so-called “authoritarian populist” political parties in the United States and in some parts of Europe seems to be contradictory, as they...
Authors who make the city pulsate
Barcelona: títol provisional [Barcelona: Working Title] is a journey through contemporary Barcelona by means of its writers. Andreu Gomila and Diego...
Autores que hacen latir la ciudad
Barcelona: títol provisional es un viaje por la Barcelona contemporánea a través de sus escritores. Andreu Gomila y Diego Piccininno han pedido a una docena...
500 years of life on Carrer Montcada
In La gent del carrer Montcada [The People of Montcada Street], Albert Garcia Espuche reflects five hundred years of life on one of Barcelona’s most iconic...
The rise, fall and revival of the Plaça Reial
Few places in Barcelona have been as dynamic and as changing, as central and at the same time as hidden, as the Plaça Reial. It started out as a brothel, to later...
A story of its own
The FEMINISMS! exhibition at the CCCB [Centre of Contemporary Culture of Barcelona], curated by Gabriele Schor and Marta Segarra, is a show not to be missed...
“Remembering is an act of loss, of mourning”
Marta Marín-Dòmine
Do we come from where we were born, where we live or where our ancestors came from? These are the questions that Marta Marín-Dòmine explores in Fugir era el més...
“Poetry is a tool for loving”
Joan Margarit
Joan Margarit is travelling through old age with a complete published oeuvre that grows as he writes new poems and books such as Per tenir casa cal guanyar la...
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