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Tackling climate emergencyEnvisioning emergent futures for bioregions and their cities
Las urbes son un sistema vivo en sí mismo que depende de otros sistemas vivos que no basan su propósito en servir al ser humano. Desde el diseño, y su relación con la...
Tackling climate emergencyMoving towards a city that cares for us
The health crisis brought on by the pandemic, with the extreme experience of lockdown, has made us see that human habitability is not resolved within the limits of...
Angela Davis. A history of civil disobedience
Angela Davis embodies the revolutionary fascination and the nostalgia for remote struggles. She has an innate ability to translate complex thoughts into slogans for...
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...
Barcelona in the eyes of women photographers
For a long time, Spanish photographers saw their creative aspirations determined by the role society assigned to them. The book Barcelona, fotógrafas, by...
Open city. The challenges of the futureListening to the digital ordinary
If the presents and futures of our everyday urban life are entwined and unravelled in digital entanglements, knowing how to listen to them is crucial. But the right...
Open city. The challenges of the futureTechnological sovereignties
Democracy and technology are two poles that engage in odd relationships of attraction and repulsion. The very technologies that provided minimum services while the...
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...
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