Science
Are Viruses Alive?
Roc Jiménez de Cisneros | Serafín Álvarez
A conversation between two artists to explore the limits of language and the taxonomies of life.
Storytelling
The Golden Age of Memes
Ainhoa Marzol
During the pandemic, memes have offered a way to cope with the crisis and weave a collective narrative.
Culture
William Kentridge: “There are fault lines that come from the colonial period throughout the world”
Gemma Parellada
We talk to the South African artist about segregation, the echoes of colonialism and the anti-racist struggle.
Culture
Cultural institutions during the pandemic
Mathilde Betoret | Gérard Martorell
We analyse the evolution during the pandemic of cultural heritage institutions around the world.
Commons
Connected refuge: rethinking the home in the light of the virus
Ferran Esteve
COVID-19 has reminded us of the importance of the home while favouring in-depth changes in our ways of inhabiting it.
Commons
Social movements in a time of pandemic
Dafne Calvo
COVID-19 has challenged the creativity of citizens in lockdown, who have responded to the crisis through numerous expressions of solidarity, both online and offline.
Education
The Obsolescence of Interfaces
Carlos A. Scolari
COVID-19 has highlighted the need to redesign current interfaces to tackle an increasingly complex and uncertain world.
Storytelling
Graphs, Expectations and Inventing the Future
Andreu Belsunces
Visualizations contribute to creating our social imaginaries and expectations, and therefore have an impact on the construction of future realities.
Commons
The Digital Environment is Fighting COVID-19 in Africa
Carlos Bajo
Across the whole continent initiatives are appearing that, supported by digital technologies, aim to fight the virus.
Planet
Reimagining the human-virus entanglement
Ignasi Torrent
Away from human-centred forms of knowledge production, the pandemic opens up the possibility of speculation about more-than-human forms of storytelling
Storytelling
Iconographies of the Pandemic
Ivan Pintor Iranzo
We review the visual symptoms of the pandemic, its representation by individuals, politicians, media and the entertainment sector, and the dilemma posed by combining these with the personalised tracking of the population.
Storytelling
The Year of the Spectre
Max Besora
A confined writer keeps himself entertained by rearranging his private library and seeking refuge in books as windows to other worlds.