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A new energy model for the cityPublic electricity suppliers, a new tool for energy change

Iu Gallart

Faced with the current situation of soaring energy prices, cooperative and public electricity suppliers can contribute enormously to the energy transition to bring about a sustainable,...

A new energy model for the cityThe city and the challenge of a just transition

Cristina Castells

Energy is a right. Although local government does not have powers in the major domains of energy regulation, it can...

“The spirit of patronage has been very much lost, and that saddens me”

Antoni Vila Casas

Antoni Vila Casas (Barcelona, 1930) has long donated part of his fortune to philanthropic projects. The foundation he set up has two directions: in the social...

El periodista Josep Maria Huertas intenta el 1997 travessar el carrer de Lisboa enfangat, al barri de la Clota. © Pepe Encinas

'Cròniques del fang'. When journalists wandered the streets

Through the book Cròniques del fang [Mud Chronicles], Jaume Fabre pays a fitting tribute to the journalist Josep Maria Huertas Claveria and the...

Il·lustració. © Susana Blasco / Descalza

An uncertain futureAnimals in the city, do I want them there?

Gabi Martínez

Cities cannot just belong to “us”. We need animals. Their presence forces us to sharpen our senses other than hearing...

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“I think that the fear of death is what brings me to make films”

Carla Simón

In Estiu 1993 (Summer 1993), Carla Simón fictionalised her experience of being adopted by her aunt and uncle when she was six years old, following the death...

An uncertain futureDemocracy, sovereignty and territory: Squaring the circle

Manuel Arias Maldonado

How do democracy, sovereignty and territory relate to one another? The ownership and exercise of sovereignty make...

“We must take responsibility for changing so that the world changes too”

Elvira Dyangani Ose

Photographers claim that some people make the camera fall in love. If that’s true, Elvira Dyangani Ose is one of those people. Those in high-ranking positions...

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