Commons
Culture
Audiences in Action
Irene Lapuente
Chronicle of the workshop "Audiences in Action", which was held as part of the activities organised around the award ceremony for the Cultural Innovation Prize.
Culture
The lecture-performance
Marc Caellas
This is a call for cultural managers, creators, and audiences to come up with new approaches to renew the genre of the master class.
Planet
The seeds of modern threats
Michael Renner
Experts explore hidden threats to sustainability and how to address them in the flagship publication of the Worldwatch Institute: State of the World 2015.
Culture
Cultural Innovation International Prize. A Synthesis of the Projects Submitted
Focusing on the projects accepted for consideration we try to find connections between the submissions.
Commons
Culture
Beyond Open Access: The Discovery of Knowledge
Ignasi Labastida i Juan
The aim of The Hague Declaration on the extraction of knowledge in the digital age is to improve access to knowledge by removing barriers.
Storytelling
Conceptual Writings: An Overview
Jorge Carrión
We map out an overview of experimental writing today, focusing particularly on conceptualism and processes of appropriation and expropriation in America.
Technology
The Maker Culture in China (III): Hands-On, for Economic and Social Progress
Sandra Álvaro
The spirit of learning by doing and the free experimentation that characterise maker processes are keys to renewing the idea of “made in China”.
Technology
The Maker Culture in China (II): Shanzhai, Emerging Innovation in an Open Manufacturing Ecosystem
Sandra Álvaro
China offers an alternative for taking maker culture out of the field of entertainment and into the market. Shanzhai, a think tank focusing on open innovation.
Technology
The Maker Culture in China (I): XinCheJian, a Chinese-style Hackerspace
Sandra Álvaro
XinCheJian is the first hackerspace founded in China, a space where making meets creation.
Storytelling
Je suis Madame Bovary et vous êtes Chewbacca
Jose Valenzuela Ruiz
The need to tell stories has always been with mankind, whether it be to describe reality or to imagine alternative worlds.
Storytelling
It’s Not Just an Economic Cycle, It’s a Change of Era
Javier Celaya
Print book sales have dropped 40%. Do we really think that when we finally emerge from this damn crisis readers will go out and buy print books again?
Storytelling
Border Connections in Electronic Literature
Carles Sora
Literature and computer science would seem to be remote, but they convergence have radically changed the way we read and write stories.