Open City Thinking Biennale 2020
Once again, the CCCB is one of the venues hosting the Open City Thinking Biennale, a project promoted by the Barcelona City Council with the participation of many of the city’s agents and entities.
City, Conflict and Emancipation
“Freedom or death!”, one of the most shouted slogans in the history of the West, proclaimed that life was only worth living if something greater than life itself was recognised. The pandemic has jettisoned the ideas we had inherited about freedom and death, survival, a full life, ...
A hint of light
The end of the Biennale programme coincides with the conclusion of Barcelona Poesia 2020. Hence, this year, we express this coincidence with a recital that invites reflection and, poetically speaking, thinks of the future through the voices of young authors from around the world, because we ...
Zoomer Culture
In the last decade, the expansion of Internet-based technologies has led to the emergence of new languages which, thanks to their interconnectivity and the reach of social networks, have overturned the cultural paradigm. What cultural phenomena interest the new generations and how have they been affected by the pandemic and the lockdown? The youtuber and philosopher Ernesto Castro moderates this discussion with the journalist and writer Anna Pacheco, who will analyse popular culture from the perspective of gender and class; the philosopher and transactivist Elizabeth Duval, who has written about the power of the media on the basis of her experience as a public figure; and the journalist Claudia Rius, who has focused on emerging cultural manifestations within the Catalan cultural ecosystem. ...
City, Conflict and Emancipation
Cities are spaces of a multiplicity of lives, stories, and worlds. The writers Marta Sanz and Cristina Morales have described in their works this structural violence incarnated by cities and have pondered the possibilities of emancipation beyond the limits imposed by the norm. The writer and ...
5 Futures
Five people from very different backgrounds and of a wide range of profiles present the futures they imagine. Five voices, five stories. The essayist Peter Frase talks about capitalism and technology, while the philosopher Laura Llevadot focuses on the domain of political thought. The environmentalist ...
The Mirror of Racism
Tania Adam, Elsa Dorlin, Pastora Filigrana, Daura Mangara, Esther (Mayoko) Ortega and Mostafà Shaimi
The journalist Tania Adam moderates this discussion about the possibilities of decolonising the future with a focus on the situation of racism in Spain. She is joined by the Roma activist Pastora Filigrana, university lecturer expert on religious diversity Mostafà Shaimi, the African ...
Donna Haraway and Vinciane Despret
Phonocene
Biologist and philosopher Donna Haraway dialogues with the philosopher Vinciane Despret after the performative reading “Phonocene”. This dialogue, according to Haraway, is not about “us”, it’s about the world, about all the non-human voices that we had ceased to ...
Enric Casasses
Poetic Manifesto for the Future
Accompanied by the music of Ilia Mayer, poet Enric Casasses, winner of the Premi d’Honor de les Lletres Catalanes, reflects on the concept of freedom, putting to it words paradoxically found during lockdown.
Margaret Atwood
Looking at the future
Margaret Atwood talks to cultural journalist Anna Guitart. The writer, famous for works such as The Handmaid’s Tale, talks about the future of human beings on a planet under threat, while reviewing her biography and her literary career.
Maria Arnal, María Sánchez and Irene Solà
The Voices of the Planet
We might say that understanding the world consists in living immersed in stories. Singer Maria Arnal puts music to the words of the philosopher Donna Haraway, and is joined by the writers María Sánchez and Irene Solà, the three weaving a tale of fish and nature, of drought ...
The Planet's Voices
Swamped in this anthropocentric gaze, we have lost our connections with our surroundings and have forgotten that neither our history nor our future can be written without the other inhabitants of Earth. In this session, the philosopher Vinciane Despret presents her reading-cum-performance ...
Looking to the Future
The experience of the last few months, in a world ravaged by the pandemic, is an occasion for looking ahead in a different way and putting into words a future collective that retreats from dystopias and makes of this unlooked-for present a fount of new opportunities. n this session, ...