Science
Daniel Tammet: “We don’t realise how far we can go until we try”
Juan Insua
We talk with Daniel Tammet about the secrets of the mind, language and writing, and about the numerous types of intelligence on the planet.
Storytelling
Provisional Language
Kenneth Goldsmith
Globalisation and digitalisation turns all language into provisional language.
Commons
Dossier
Laboratories
In recent years we have lived through an explosion of different models in cultural, artistic, technological and social laboratories.
Storytelling
Conceptual Writings: An Overview
Jorge Carrión
We map out an overview of experimental writing today, focusing particularly on conceptualism and processes of appropriation and expropriation in America.
Culture
Losers Create Things Too
Rubén Martínez
Music can be a stimulus for personal or collaborative reflection on the act of creation.
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.
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.
Culture
Davide Toffolo: “Pasolini’s greatest legacy is his way of confronting reality”
Davide Toffolo talks about him as an author of graphic novels and thinks about the future of culture and his ideal cultural lab.
Culture
Artists in the laboratory
Clara Bofill
Why use an a priori scientific term to describe a place for artistic creation? What does the existence of these spaces mean?
Culture
A Playful Attitude as the Basis of the Creative Process
Oriol Ripoll
When understood in a exploratory, free and relational way, the game becomes a powerful tool for research and production.
Culture
Why museums need to play more
Play has always been used as an educational resource, and MuseumNext Barcelona showed us how Museums are also gradually adopting the strategy of play.
