Commons
Open Mapping in Africa: Community Spirit and the Common Good
Carlos Bajo
Open mapping communities in Africa show how it is possible, through open data, to contribute to social development in places that government and businesses do not reach.
Commons
Feminist Killjoys
Sara Ahmed | Bea Lozano
When feminist conscience is associated with a kind of misfortune, can we consider the happiness of women outside of the dominant social ideals?
Storytelling
Virtual Narrators, or Theatre Before Shakespeare
Jose Valenzuela Ruiz
We need to create a new narrative language adapted to the new immersive technologies such as virtual reality and augmented reality.
Culture
Seoul’s Experimental Libraries
Jorge Carrión
If all the information we need is already available on the internet, what can libraries offer? Four libraries in Seoul use books to generate physical experiences that dispense with screens.
Technology
The Error in the Digital Era
Ferran Esteve
A review of glitch art, wrongly-programmed algorithms and the philosophy of Silicon Valley to rethink the promise of digital perfection.
Technology
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
Efraín Foglia | Ferran Esteve | Lucía Lijtmaer | Luis Paadín | Óscar Marín Miró | Ramon Mas Baucells
We invited several authors to explain what this quote by Arthur C. Clarke conjures up for them.
Science
The Quantum Sense IV: Why?
Marta García-Matos
Quantum physics questions several of the intuitive conceptions that we construct following daily interaction with the physical world to make sense of it. One of the most profound is causality, because quantum physics shows that an event can exist without any cause.
Culture
Transforming an Institution into a Decentralised Organisation
Ana Manzanedo | Liliana Arroyo
How teal practices can be introduced into public administration. Five common challenges and three transformative case studies.
Storytelling
The Politics of Technology-Fiction
Andreu Belsunces
Fiction, more than a formula for understanding information, acts as a means of control and a tactical technology capable of opening up other possible worlds.
Commons
Towards a Data Commons
Enric Senabre | Mayo Fuster Morell
Implications for the whole of society of the data policies of collaborative economy platforms.
Technology
Internet, Internet!
The better we know the potentials and risks of the Internet and the technologies that accelerate and expand it, the better we will be able to use them to create a more critical, creative and democratic world.
