SubjectFeminism and women
![© Eva Parey © Eva Parey](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/bm_128_fotosentrevista_01_1100x548.jpg?itok=gVNfOrc3)
Emma Vilarasau
Two days after Lali Symon premiered at the Romea theatre, as part of the latest Grec Festival, Emma Vilarasau arrives in the theatre’s foyer before locking herself in...
![Illustration © Cinta Fosch Illustration © Cinta Fosch](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/bm_128_illustracions_zaidamuxi_1100x548.jpg?itok=mBbcmIjn)
The design of a substantial amount of housing is based on an obsolete concept that organises space according...
![Audience at the 2010 Sónar festival. © Vicente Zambrano](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/bm_127_tendencies.jpg?itok=82U68War)
Festivals have become the ultimate popular spectacle of our times. They have built themselves from scratch in just three decades. In Barcelona, we have gone from a tentative and...
![The 3D digital space allows visitors to explore each and every one of the construction phases of the monastery grounds. © Reial Monestir de Santa Maria de Pedralbes. 2019](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/projecte_nou_3d.jpg?itok=CzZCtv1e)
The exhibition Rere els murs del monestir. Set-cents anys d’una història en femení [Behind the Monastery Walls. Seven Hundred Years of a Female History] allows us to...
![Portrait of Maruja Torres. © Javier Barbancho](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/bm_127_entrevista_marujatorres.jpg?itok=AVgfwdjs)
Maruja Torres
Maruja Torres arrives at our interview on foot with the aid (more mental than physical) of a wooden walking stick. She says that walking is good for her, and she counts her steps...
![Il·lustració. ©Genie Espinosa](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/bm_126_illustracions_relat_ample1100_1.jpg?itok=K87VS74y)
She pedalled just as the traffic light was turning red, he took off too soon: the upshot was a traffic accident. His handlebars on her torso, her wheel on his tibia; the girl...
![Illustration. ©Genie Espinosa](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/bm_126_illustracions_paulabarrantesmariagonzalez_1100x548_1.jpg?itok=56Ee2GES)
In a context in which inequalities and male chauvinism are still very prevalent, there is evidence that,...
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