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.
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.
Planet
Making Energy Futures at the Island Edge
Laura Watts
Diary of the installation of the Newton Machine on the island of Eday (Scotland), a project that challenges the energy culture through citizen participation.
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.
Storytelling
Technology
Towards a New News Ethic
Àlex Hinojo
The phenomenon of fake news and algorithms is forcing us to reconsider the difference between source and channel and the need for a global news ethic.
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.
Culture
Reconstrained Design: A Manifesto
Reconstrained Design Group
A text for forcing new imaginative spaces for discourse, inoculating ideas and in short, subverting the status quo of design.
Planet
Climate Change from a Gender Perspective
Sandra González
Women count among the main people affected by climate change but are in a minority among political decision-making bodies.
Planet
Agroecology: a Holistic View of the Food System
Marta Guadalupe Rivera Ferre
Unlike industrial systems, in agroecology everything is related: from the cultivating of the land to the way food is prepared for eating.
Storytelling
Data for the Collective Historical Memory
Concha Catalán
Presentation of the Innovation and Human Rights (IHR) centralised database of the victims of the Spanish Civil War and the Franco regime.
Commons
Culture
The New Reactionaries
Jorge Galindo
The traditional dominant majority is perceiving that a cultural hegemony is playing against them, despite the fact that the statistics do not agree with them.