SubjectPublic leadership
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...
Open cityHow much urban democracy can global capitalism stand?
Three decades of neoliberal deregulation from the wild side of the market have impeded and disfigured opportunities for urban democracy and have seized the city from...
‘In an election campaign, the word “science” never appears’
Caterina Biscari
Alba is the most important synchrotron light laboratory in the Mediterranean and south-west Europe. However, it is a great unknown for Barcelona society in general....
A pulsating, ambivalent Olympic Barcelona
On 1 June 1992, a summer storm rained down on Barcelona and, so too, on the magnetic protagonists of Lluís-Anton Baulenas’s latest novel, Amics per sempre (...
Positive passion for changing our reality
Simona Levi, playwright and activist
Digital technology has changed society, but there is still a long way to go. As part of the Xnet action group, Simona Levi works to improve democracy in the digital...
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