Teresa Caldeira, Gautam Bhan Nzinga Biegueng Mboup and Tau Tavengwa

The city is one of the fundamental categories for understanding contemporaneity. It is not only in the cities where most of the world's population lives (and will increasingly live), but also in the spaces that generate the imaginaries, forms of coexistence and collective action that define a large part of our present. Today's cities are spaces of transit and global circulation that reflect the diversity and cultural richness of our time, but they are also particularly affected by the growth of inequalities, the impact of migration and the emergence of new patterns of mobility, and the effect, already visible in so many places, of the climate emergency. All these processes are changing the urban category and opening the door to new imaginaries and sociabilities that shape the cities of the 21st century.

In this context of profound transformation, the CCCB opens a strategic line on the metropolises of the Global South, the cities that are the home to most of the world's population, help to understand the postcolonial present and are precursors of the future to come. In this first meeting, we will have Teresa Caldeira (Sao Paulo), Gautam Bhan (Bangalore), Nzinga Biegueng Mboup (Dakar) and Tau Tavengwa (Cape Town/London).