SubjectParticipation
Experiencing culture
Participar en la vida cultural va més Engaging in cultural life goes beyond attending any of the paying or free activities that the city offers. The Barcelona...
Alessandro Baricco: The virus and ‘The Game’
The first international conversation about the coronavirus is being held virtually, as it couldn’t be done otherwise. Alessandro Baricco explains that the dynamism of...
The Land Use Plan for Ciutat Vella: Protecting community life
Since 1992, different Land Use Plans have been implemented in Ciutat Vella to regulate economic activities and urban planning licences. The most recent one, approved...
Isn’t culture for me? Diversity and inequalities in cultural participation
The two key words in the first survey on cultural participation and needs in Barcelona are diversity and inequality. The survey reveals that the desire to take part...
The digital arts, a field open to creation
From the art world, new technologies —and especially present-day digital technologies— have always been a field for research and experimentation, as well as for...
The generational gapThe policies sought by the new generations
The design of the current welfare state and the social and economic reality facing young people today suggest that their demands will be more of a qualitative (a...
The generational gapPolicies for young people
We are experiencing a generational regression for the first time. The social elevator, which had greatly improved the status of previous generations, has ground to a...
The generational gapYoung women, between inequality and empowerment
Young people are dominating new discourses on gender and challenging much of the discrimination, contempt and violence that older generations had systematised....
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