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DossierDigital city
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Cities can adopt practices that will engage residents in communities of practice, building on making, doing, and sharing together as a base of identity that can provide real sense of...
![Il·lustració d'una mà posant una papereta en una urna que és un candau](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/francesca_bria.png?itok=dC9vr2q8)
Cities and citizens, not companies, ought to own the data produced in cities and should be able to use said data to improve public services and put their policies into action. Data...
![Il·lustració d'un senyor i una bossa, sembla la figura del Monopoly](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/nick_srnicek_1.png?itok=DWCwrPSX)
The infrastructure of the city offers major new opportunities for profit and power which makes them highly desirable for private platforms like Google, Uber and Baidu. The end result of...
![Il·lustració d'un pont](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/mayo_fuster.png?itok=PhUaiVSH)
The platform economy generates considerable challenges and opportunities. It’s necessary to to distinguish truly collaborative platforms, which must be promoted and protected, from the...
![Il·lustració d'una fila de persones agafant cada una amb les mans el cap de qui té davant](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/ekaitz_cancela.png?itok=Mm7-JWs1)
Urban environments are characterised by the opportunities they offer to think of a political culture where shared knowledge assets can be managed jointly by different sized groups with...
![Il·lustració d'una pistola que enlloc de canó per les bales té un objectiu de càmara de vigilància](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/renata_avila_1.png?itok=lw53AsWX)
In most cities there are hardly any spaces left for public cohabitation: by neglecting parks and common areas, by closing cultural spaces, by cutting budgets for extracurricular...
![Il·lustració d'un megàfon](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/andreu_monterde.png?itok=hhDpCKzW)
The adjective 'smart' is very much in vogue. It represents the idea that cities can be more intelligent and efficient thanks to technology, and the data that they and their inhabitants...
![Braç robòtic presentat al 4YFN 2019](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/foto_industria_4-0.jpg?itok=T1yvDqOc)
Information and communications technologies are a strategic sector in a city’s economy, not just because of the volume of investment and jobs they generate, but also because of...
Other contents
![Il·lustració dossier "Ciutat digital" © Albert Tercero](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/separatas.png?itok=ZkTcs57I)
We are moving towards the digital city. Technology is often identified with progress. It depends on the use to which they are put. Data has become the main infrastructure of the economy...
![Retrat de Sergio Fajardo © Santiago Sepúlveda](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/02-entrevista-fajardo-retrat-02-1100.jpg?itok=kf7V2b4v)
Sergio Fajardo
Not affiliated with any of the traditional parties, he became mayor of Medellín in 2004 leading a citizen movement and completely renewed a city that had entered a deep black period in...
![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...
![Persones mirant uns quadres en una exposició © Vicente Zambrano](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/06_intro_cultura_exposicio.jpg?itok=MP-XToJ5)
Cultural workers live in a lamentable state of job insecurity, as we can see from the debate that opens this Culture Folder. The arts actually help us to recognise ourselves in our...
The 2008 crisis was devastating for culture. Cutbacks left many projects without funding and public services had to reduce or freeze hiring. Precarious employment in the sector...
![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...
![Dada web](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/06-cultura-03-tencdencies-blockchain-dada-web-1100.jpg?itok=EB9VO1Ay)
Blockchain fans highlight that we may be witnessing the start of a new infrastructure which will revolutionise the relations between small and large agents, traditional and new, in many...
![Un quadre de Charlotte Salomon](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/06-cultura-04-expo-charlotte-01-1100.jpg?itok=kbhV9VXC)
Charlotte’s story is the unique story of a girl immersed in a tragic family legacy, a lineage of suicides, a litany of inherited deaths which is abruptly revealed to her in exile...
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Eric Hobsbawm, the British Marxist historian, coined the expression “a brief century” to refer to the period between the First World War (1914) and the collapse of the Soviet Union (1991...
![Llibre: Gent de ploma i marabú. Thais Morales i Carme Pollina](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/06-cultura-llibre-ploma.jpg?itok=xImtHqXP)
A fascinating transgressive joy pervades the photographs gathered in this exhaustive round-up of the ‘queer’ Barcelona of the early 20th century to today. All the photographs are quite...
![Llibre: Els límits del Quim Porta, de Josep Pedrals](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/06-cultura-llibre-pedrals.jpg?itok=Su20Fv8O)
Els límits del Quim Porta, a book by Josep Perals, is bound to disturb and hypnotise. The whole book breathes poetry, lyrical sonority, ideas, constant revelation of language,...
![Un home resa en un oratori islàmic © Eva Parey](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/04-visions-oratori-foto-01-eva-parey_1100x548.jpg?itok=urUgMpOP)
The opening of an Islamic prayer hall in Carrer del Japó, in the Prosperitat neighbourhood, has been fraught with tension because of the residents’ opposition to this centre. Management...
![Llibre: Barcelona feminista 1975-1988. Isabel Segura Soriano](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/06-cultura-llibre-bcn-feminista.jpg?itok=FuCuDR7M)
Her name was María Ángeles Muñoz and she was the cause of the rebellious catchphrase of solidarity a multitude of women also adopted: ‘I am an adulteress, too”. This catchphrase ‘not...
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