Science
Anil Seth: “Reality is a controlled hallucination”
Sònia Hernández
A conversation with the neuroscientist about the nature of consciousness, how it can be studied and the implications of understanding it.
Planet
Towards Geo-Situated Listening
Arnau Horta
Sound mapping, memory and resonance: three ways of relating to the world around us through sound.
Science
What if Your Mood Depends on the Bacteria in Your Gut?
Cristina Sáez
The gut microbiota plays a key role in this continuous dialogue between the gut and the brain.
Commons
Chronopolitics, or the Politics of Time Between Finance and Computing
Andreu Belsunces
How the social experience of time is mediated by the technological advances and financial infrastructures of our society
Planet
Mar Santamaria: “The city is the artifact and the strategy that will enable collective survival”
Núria Moliner
An interview with architect and urban planner Mar Santamaria on the present and future challenges of contemporary cities, public policies, data and urban rights.
Technology
When They Came For The Digitally Illiterate…
Andrea Rosales
Forced digitalisation excludes not only those with fewer digital skills, but also those who appreciate the advantages of the analogue world.
Storytelling
Snack Culture and Virality
Ainhoa Marzol
The short and fragmented formats that succeed on social media make decontextualisation one of the cornerstones of today’s digital culture.
Culture
Curating Young Thinking
La Sullivan
What would a festival of writing, thought and creation, designed, curated and managed by young people be like? Reflections on the experience of Bivac.
Planet
Toward a “Bacterial Turn” in Art, Architecture and Design
Jens Hauser
The urban design project "Geo-LLum" proposes an experimental bacteria-powered public lightening system in Barcelona’s El Clot neighbourhood.
Technology
The NFT bubble has burst. Long live the bubble?
Proyecto UNA
Cloaked in an aura of popular cultural cool, NFTs act as an introductory narrative into the world of speculation.
Planet
Slow Thinking
Sam Twidale
Slow Thinking hopes to promote bilateral relationships with non-human entities who live and communicate on different timescales.
Planet
Science
The space of possible minds
Philip Ball
If our experience is limited to our own bodies, how can we think about non-human minds?