Storytelling
Webdocs for Social Change
Carles Sora
The new interactive documentary narratives set up situations involving citizen collaboration and participation, and can become strategies for social empowerment.
Commons
The City and its Small Data
César Reyes Nájera
What role do small data and interactions in shaping our cities?
Technology
Back to the Future: The Internet of Everything
Cristina Sáez
Can you imagine an alarm clock that decides to wake you up 10 minutes earlier because it knows you have a meeting first thing and there’s a traffic jam?
Culture
A History of Novelty
Jorge Carrión
Review of the idea of what we mean by Novelty from the origins of the Western philosophical tradition, through variations and contributions of the concept until what Novelty is today.
Education
To Gamify Means to Make People Play
Oriol Ripoll
Gamification is not measured in terms of prizes, but by the player’s enjoyment during the process. There is also room for game in the world of culture.
Commons
Citizen Science: Knowledge takes power
Josep Perelló
Citizen science harks back to the essence of amateur science in the nineteenth century, but mixed with initiatives of social innovation and open innovation.
Storytelling
The Cambrian Age of Journalism
Karma Peiró
The great challenge now is how to democratise the data processing, so that we as citizens understand the potential of “Big Data” and using it for our interests.
Commons
Technology
(In)Net: in the Mirage of Social Networks
Mª Ángeles Cabré
Are social networks a new tool for women’s empowerment? Or are they incapable of deactivating the mechanisms of inequality?
Technology
Urban Revolution 4.0
Paisaje Transversal
We talk about specific examples and proposals to promote smartcitizens in the face of the concept of the smartcity.
Technology
IEML: A Project for a New Humanism. An interview with Pierre Lévy
Sandra Álvaro
Pierre Lévy talks about the creation of IEML a tool for the augmentation of collective intelligence by means of the algorithmic medium.
Commons
Co-creation workshops with open DNA
Enric Senabre
The aim of co-creation workshops with open DNA is to explore different possibilities for building projects and initiatives in connection to the Commons.
Storytelling
The essay will be experimental or it will not be
Jorge Carrión
Even though literature must necessarily be an experiment, here we are again, questioning its laboratory nature.