Commons
When the (institutional) cure is worse than the (mental) illness
Jose Valenzuela Ruiz
On how mental institutions went from being places of isolation to centres that are open to society, politics and art.
Culture
Flexible Institutions for a Fast-Changing World
Ana Manzanedo | Liliana Arroyo
The time has come to convert the public administrations into flexible, distributed spaces with a shared purpose and meaning.
Commons
Institutions of the Future
Charles Beckett
The internet allows public institutions to become more transparent and porous, but the transformation has only just begun.
Storytelling
Geek Minds
Jose Valenzuela Ruiz
We try to understand the secrets of the geek mind through neuroscience. Why are geeks so passionate about narrative universes?
Culture
Is Lab All There Is?
Ramon Sangüesa
The “lab” concept has been a great success. It had the good fortune to be appropriated by all kinds of actors: public, semi-public, private, and any combination.
Commons
A New Economy: Social, Commons, Feminist, and Environmental
Mayo Fuster Morell
Airbnb, Uber or eBay have popularized the collaborative economy, but where cooperativism is? The concentration of wealth continues in corporations.
Commons
Public Innovation: Open, Social, Cultural
Alberto Ortiz de Zárate
The key to public innovation: it adds value to legitimate recipients.
Commons
New Political Communities
Jorge Carrión
Not democrat, not republican, not socialist, not capitalist, anarchist or ultraliberal. As I said: new.
Commons
The Subjective Community
Daniel Granados
We have seen the emergence of many attempts to create communal spaces as new autonomous models that offer an alternative to the existing institutional framework
Commons
Culture
If it doesn’t spread, it’s dead
Maria Farràs
Overview of the ideas discussed in the book Spreadable Media. Creating value in a Networked Culture by Henry Jenkins, Sam Ford and Joshua Green (2013).
Culture
The Crisis (of museums) as Opportunity
True change is a change in attitude, not technology. We need to re-think ourselves in the new cultural context and to work on strategies for long-term change.
Commons
The Revolution of the commons
Rubén Martínez
The common, the Commons, community, common goods… these concepts have put down fresh roots in our imaginary, and they seem to be here to stay.