Storytelling
Poetics of Pencil, Paper and Contradictions
Jorge Carrión
Reflections of a writer who transits between the analog and the digital, the material and the virtual.
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.
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.
Planet
Storytelling
Angry Optimism in a Drowned World: A Conversation with Kim Stanley Robinson
José Luis de Vicente
Reflections from a science-fiction angle on the scenarios posed by climate change and the defence of the imagination to help find real solutions.
Storytelling
Future Narratopias: Exhaustion of the Possible
Laura Benítez Valero
Speculative stories are all the rage, but when they avoid commitment they lose the power conferred upon them by the fictional.
Storytelling
But When Did the 21st Century Begin?
Jorge Carrión
Today’s audiovisual representation systems make it more complex to determine which events marked the beginning of the new century.
Storytelling
Björk Digital: a Technological Opera
Carles Sora
Björk’s immersive experience marks a turning point in terms of experiencing music thanks to virtual reality.
Storytelling
Design Fiction: Prototyping Desirable Futures
Elisabet Roselló
Design fiction enables us to imagine and critically explore possibilities for the future through tangible objects.
Storytelling
From BTV to Betevé. Unpredictable Television
Morrosko Vila-San-Juan
The first phase of BTV represented a new approach to television. Today’s Betevé promises a fresh leap forward, based on a cross-cutting approach and transmedia narrative.
Storytelling
Walking: A Thought Laboratory
Jorge Carrión
We’ve known it for centuries, but now it has been demonstrated by science and so seems to be even more certain than before. Walking stimulates creativity and thinking.
Storytelling
The Lumières of VR: Opportunities and Risks of Immersive Video
Carles Sora
Virtual reality appears to offer extraordinary possibilities, but only time will tell whether we are seeing the birth of a new language or a false promise.
Planet
Storytelling
Climate Change as a Narrative Twist
Jorge Carrión
What will the narratives of the Anthropocene be? How will we explain the world since our realisation that we have drastically changed it?