SubjectPublic leadership
“Retro-progressivism” and in praise of technocracy
Barcelona pròxima, besides bestowing high praise on technocracy, is an urban planning manual, an intellectual biography, a compendium of urban history, a...
New vulnerabilitiesThe myth of the entrepreneur and the value of the invisible
In recent years we have witnessed the glorification of the figure of the entrepreneur. Job offers require skills that are not always essential. Society needs...
Lessons from the crisisOpen wounds
There are more poor people today, and they have even less than before the crisis. Organised citizenship has tackled this situation with social innovation and...
Knitting spaces of feminist thought
Fina Birulés
Distilling thought involves the strenuous task of condensing sense and syntactic skill. Those who know Fina Birulés know of her tenacious precision in thought and...
Building the metropolisA new metropolitan governance
New economic, social and environmental issues cannot be addressed solely at a municipal level. It is time to consider a new model of institutional integration that...
“The hypocrisy I’ve seen and experienced is what has driven me to challenge my society”
Joumana Haddad
The Lebanese activist Joumana Haddad (Beirut, 1970) is one of...
View from the heights
It is always possible for anyone, even a "great" artist to address others or represent them visually without viewing them "from on high". This is not the case in ...
Open cityCommitment and collective action
Emancipatory political transformation doesn’t just require certain political and legal tools (such as well-established democratic institutions or certain material...
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