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Open City

The Barcelona Debate 2014

Kamila Shamsie

Open city. The Unmapped City

In 1947, at the Partition of India and Pakistan, Karachi lost half its population and yet doubled in size as refugees/migrants crossed the new border in two directions. The consequence was a city made new overnight, with no urban planning in place to contend with this. Over the decades the ...

Rafael Chirbes

Rubble and Progress

In this conference, writer Rafael Chirbes revisits his childhood Valencia, seen through the eyes of a child who is just starting to discover the city. The author pays tribute to a time before real estate speculation and its desolate landscapes, the leitmotif of the novels Crematorio ...

Open city. Room, House, Street

Lecture by Marta Segarra

The conference title, "Room, house, street", refers to public, private and intimate spaces that, according to Segarra, live together in the city. It talks on borders and boundaries between these spaces, and the difference between public and intimate space, as explained by Virginia Woolf at ...

Centre Documentació i Debat

Josep Maria Benet i Jornet and Toni Casares

City and Drama

Speaking with Toni Casares, Josep Maria Benet i Jornet describes his relationship with the city of Barcelona and its presence in his work. For Josep Maria Benet i Jornet, the city is a territory of conflict, of clashes and of noise, a space where contact between winners and losers, between ...

Open city. Democracy, Technology and City

Lecture by Evgeny Morozov

Evgeny Morozov is one of the foremost critical thinkers in the current debate about the role of the internet during the changing times we are immersed in, and he has carved out a place in the area that politicises and views as problematic the growing impact of the internet on our lives and power relationships. Opening session, presented by Joan Subirats, of the 2014 Debat de Barcelona, "Open city"

The Barcelona Debate: Open City

Judit Carrera

The Barcelona Debate is back, and with it we are inaugurating our programme of lectures for the year. With “Open City”, we resume one of the CCCB’s longest-standing traditions with a series of sessions that each year proposes reflection on a different key aspect of contemporary ...

Evgeny Morozov against the cyber-optimism

Joan Subirats

Evgeny Morozov is one of the foremost critical thinkers in the current debate about the role of the internet during the changing times we are immersed in. It seems quite clear and nobody argues with the fact that the technological changes of our age are extremely significant. The debate about ...