Planet
ODE to the Future: Workshop on activism for climate change
ODA al futur
How we can rethink environmental struggles through the dramaturgy of the body, design, essay-writing and socioenvironmental activism.
Science
The Quantum Sense (II): Paradoxes
Marta García-Matos
In the history of quantum physics, three types of paradoxes exist: those that challenge classical physics, those that challenge intuition and common sense, and those that challenge quantum physics itself.
Commons
Next Stop: City Station
Núria Jar
The exhibition “After the End of the World” spreads out over the city of Barcelona through diverse citizen science actions that aim to improve the city’s environmental health.
Technology
Machines now know how to terrorise humans
Cristina Sáez
The Shelley Project studies how to produce horror stories as a result of collaboration between humans and artificial intelligence.
Commons
Memes and strange politics
Jaron Rowan
Emerging from the tension between the political and politics is a form of aesthetic expression that renews the debate in the public sphere.
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Education
Digital Education is not Just Training in Digital Literacy
Carlos Magro Mazo
Technologies offer the opportunity of transiting from educational models based on transmission towards models based on active learning.
Planet
Timothy Morton: Ecology without Nature
Roc Jiménez de Cisneros
We interview the philosopher Tim Morton, author of “Dark Ecology”, who proposes that we rethink the way we see ecology, anthropocentrism and art.
Science
The Quantum Sense
Marta García-Matos
Quantum physics highlights the need for nonsensical humour to give sense to the world: from G. K. Chesterton at his sharpest to the Douglas Adams at his most inquisitive.
Education
The contribution of the Montessori Method to an uncertain world
Francesc Balagué
We talk with Ève Herrmann about the resurgence of Montessori education and what this may contribute to digital literacy and other challenges in education.
Commons
Memes and strange politics
Jaron Rowan
Emerging from the tension between the political and politics is a form of aesthetic expression that renews the debate in the public sphere.
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Artificial Intelligence
Technology
Machines now know how to terrorise humans
Cristina Sáez
The Shelley Project studies how to produce horror stories as a result of collaboration between humans and artificial intelligence.
Technology
Machines and Humans: We Need to Talk
Andreu Belsunces | Marta Handenawer
The rise of personal virtual assistants calls for reflection on who is helping whom, and to what extent we will delegate tasks to machines.
Storytelling
The book to come
Javier Celaya
Artificial intelligence, big data, and virtual reality are set to change the book world over the next ten years.
Technology
When Creativity Ceased To Be (Exclusively) Human
Jose Valenzuela Ruiz
How do artistic artificial intelligences work? We analyse what seemed to be the last stronghold of human creativity.
Science
On the Multiplicity of Intelligences
Roc Jiménez de Cisneros
What is intelligence? How can we accurately define a concept that we only understand superficially?
Science
Avatars, Cyborgs and Robots: Can Humans Enhance Themselves? (I)
Sandra Álvaro
The design of bionic prostheses and the creation of intelligent machines are some of the advances made towards enhancing our physical and intellectual abilities
Science
Avatars, Cyborgs and Robots: Can Humans Enhance Themselves? (II)
Sandra Álvaro
Codifying human beings and increasing the processing capacity of computers has made it possible to create machines that can respond to our actions.
Technology
Living with Smart Algorithms
Sandra Álvaro
Algorithms enable us to create smarter machines, but their lack of neutrality and transparency raises new challenges.
Technology
Algorithmic Injustice
David Casacuberta
In light of the increasing use of algorithms to automate decisions, we do not just want them to produce results that are correct. They must also be fair.
Science
The “uncanny valley” hypothesis in robots
Ferran Esteve
The "uncanny valley" hypothesis holds that when a robot looks almost, but not exactly, like a human being, it causes disconcert and revulsion in the observer,