Commons
Science
Citizen Science and the Arts
OpenSystems
Science and art may find common ground in the drive to conduct serious scientific research through shared experiences.
Science
Quantum Agencies
Libby Heaney
What does it mean to intersect our everyday world with the seemingly counter-intuitive field of quantum science? And how have these entanglements been interrogated through art?
Education
Henry Giroux: “Those arguing that education should be neutral are really arguing for a version of education in which nobody is accountable”
João França
An interview with founder of critical pedagogy Henry Giroux on the meaning of education, suspicions regarding neutrality and on how current uncertainties could be a driving force to rethink and generate new possibilities.
Technology
Orwell in times of facial recognition
Ferran Esteve
George Orwell’s vision of dystopia, "1984", describes situations similar to those of current times and advances ethical dilemmas still difficult to tackle today.
Commons
Citizen Science for Social Change
OpenSystems
Citizen science can be a tool for community change by collecting data and applying the scientific method with the help of citizens.
Commons
Mona Eltahawy: “Patriarchy is the form of oppression with which the entire world struggles”
Míriam Hatibi
A conversation with the journalist specialised in gender equality in North Africa and the Middle East about the oppression of women and the need to deconstruct the patriarchy in all its manifestations.
Commons
Citizen Science and Public Libraries
OpenSystems
Public libraries may find synergies with citizen science for the purpose of sowing participative scientific knowledge.
Culture
Technology
Rethinking the Internet from the cultural sector
The finalists of the Cultural Innovation International Prize offer us different ways of raising awareness and tackling the challenges faced by the Internet.
Technology
A more human posthumanism?
Marc Mela
We are immersed in scientific and technological transformations that are affecting the human condition itself. What is the meaning of tendencies such as posthumanism? How should we think about this “afterness”?
Planet
Paul Mason: “Information technology is going to erode the need for work”
Carlos Delclós
A conversation with this journalist, who is a specialist in economics and the author of “Postcapitalism”, which looks at the structural changes of our economic system and the real possibilities of imagining a world beyond it.
Commons
Saving Cassandra: the Challenges of Disinformation Today
Berta Barbet
A reflection on the dangers and causes of disinformation within a context of lack of certainty and disaffection with the current system.
