SubjectPublic leadership
![Retrat de Joumana Haddad © Albert Armengol](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/06-cultura-02-entrevista-joumana-haddad-01-1100x548.jpg?itok=3NNvUXD4)
Joumana Haddad
The Lebanese activist Joumana Haddad (Beirut, 1970) is one of the most influential...
![Fotograma del film 'Human Flow' del director Ai Weiwei](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/03-transit-didi-film-01-1100x548.jpg?itok=D9tMKw0-)
It is always possible for anyone, even a "great" artist to address others or represent them visually without viewing them "from on high". This is not the case in Human Flow, the...
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Emancipatory political transformation doesn’t just require certain political and legal tools (such as well-established democratic institutions or certain material conditions), but also...
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Three decades of neoliberal deregulation from the wild side of the market have impeded and disfigured opportunities for urban democracy and have seized the city from its people. In spite...
![Rertrat de Caterina Biscari](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/entrevista_01_1100_1.jpg?itok=65ePyv5P)
Caterina Biscari
Alba is the most important synchrotron light laboratory in the Mediterranean and south-west Europe. However, it is a great unknown for Barcelona society in general.
![Voluntaris olímpics en un assaig de la cerimònia d’inauguració dels Jocs de 1992. Foto: AFB](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/amicsxsempre_portada.jpg?itok=lv2cCUKW)
On 1 June 1992, a summer storm rained down on Barcelona and, so too, on the magnetic protagonists of Lluís-Anton Baulenas’s latest novel, Amics per sempre (Friends Forever)....
![Retrat de Simona Levi © Pere Virgili](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/simonalevi_1100x548.jpg?itok=E9hbPhfL)
Simona Levi, playwright and activist
Digital technology has changed society, but there is still a long way to go. As part of the Xnet action group, Simona Levi works to improve democracy in the digital age and to make...
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