![Mural amb el text "Revolution on off" al Passeig de la Vall d'Hebrón. © Carlota Serarols](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/intro_plec_cultura_1100x547_0.jpg?itok=6NgeNb83)
The pandemic has taken its toll on the cultural sector, especially in areas that require in-person audiences, like theatre and music. Artists have had no choice but to apply for grants...
![Llibres exposats a una de les parades de la plaça Reial amb motiu de la diada de Sant Jordi del 2021. © Mònica Moreno](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/debat-cultura.jpg?itok=jnYdtwkz)
Things are looking promising for the publishing sector right now. The pandemic, which has broadly been catastrophic for the cultural sector, has generated an unexpected recovery for...
![Núria Guiu durant un moment de l’actuació a l’espectacle Likes al Teatre Lliure. © Ajuntament de Barcelona / Laura Guerrero](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/01_debat_dissidencia_portada_1100.jpg?itok=3Oylhrpt)
Today we wonder whether dissent can still be exercised in a culture subsidised and domesticated by the official discourse of institutions. Is it feasible today to think of artistic...
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There is a major challenge that is at risk of being overshadowed by climate change or gender equality: that of poverty and hunger. We shall discuss green culture or feminist culture,...
![Performance “Speculative Intimacy. Afectes i tecnologia digital”, dins la Biennal de Pensament del 2019. Moment de l'actuació amb una dona estirada al llit comandant un petit dron. © Xavier Torrent Performance “Speculative Intimacy. Afectes i tecnologia digital”, dins la Biennal de Pensament del 2019. Moment de l'actuació amb una dona estirada al llit comandant un petit dron. © Xavier Torrent](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/debat_portada_1100x548_0.jpg?itok=SCrc390I)
Barcelona is furnished with the conditions and the talents to become a benchmark for technological humanism. At a time when the European model for the ethics of algorithms, citizens’...
![Espectacle de dansa i acrobàcies agafades pel cabell de Laura & Francesca al Castell de Montjuïc, dins del MAC Festival de la Mercè 2020. © Manel Sala](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/intro-plec-cultura.jpg?itok=IhyLgUl1)
During the long months of the pandemic we’ve had enough of claiming and asserting that culture is safe. We have reduced venue capacity, we have adapted schedules to curfews, we have...
![Performance “Speculative Intimacy. Afectes i tecnologia digital”, dins la Biennal de Pensament del 2019. Moment de l'actuació amb una dona estirada al llit comandant un petit dron. © Xavier Torrent Dues de les il·lustradores del projecte del mural reivindicatiu feminista de la Model pinten una de les parts pujades a una bastida. © Martí Petit](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/debat_portada_1100x548.jpg?itok=YBCtwlAI)
Culture has been one of the sectors hit hardest by the pandemic. Artists have learned a painful lesson from this crisis at first hand, which is that you cannot create when you are...
![Cavallet de mar fet amb materials reciclats. © Curro Palacios](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/02_debat_ciencia_1100.jpg?itok=tGmUeBAg)
Climate change is the major political, social and cultural challenge of our time, but it also constitutes a major challenge for science and technology. The City and Science Biennial,...