Commons
Two Self-Managed Grecs
Joan Carbonell
What can we learn from the first two editions of the Grec, a self-managed, egalitarian and ground-breaking festival at the height of political and cultural upheaval?
Commons
Next Stop: City Station
Núria Jar
The exhibition “After the End of the World” spreads out over the city of Barcelona through diverse citizen science actions that aim to improve the city’s environmental health.
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?
Planet
Outlining the Participatory Mind
Henryk Skolimowski
The mind is a mysterious phenomenon. To acknowledge this mystery is not to mystify the mind but to express our recognition of the complexity of the universe.
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
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.
