Decidim: Learn From the Begining (September-October)
Decidim is a platform for citizen participation, free and safe technology, with all its democratic guarantees. It stands out for its implementation locally as well as globally: from the Barcelona City Council, Helsinki or Mexico City, to initiatives such as Som Energia, LaFede or the FAVB. Do you want to put it into practice?
Digital Barriers: AI + ART for ACTIVISM
Not having quality access to the Internet means being excluded from society. Whether we like it or not, everything is digitized: from doing school homework, to get through paperwork with the Administration, or even contacting relatives remotely. But Internet access is not guaranteed equally to all citizens.
Although the official accounts say that the future and innovation are based on the digitization of life, social movements warn otherwise: a one-way turn towards the digitization of citizenship leaves many people behind.
Opening up and democratising culture
One of the questions that arises from spaces that generate critical and transformative cultural proposals is that of elaborating an open quality cultural proposal. Understanding cultural centres as porous spaces, permeable to what is happening in our environment is a clear political position, a commitment to understanding culture in a more holistic way.
Citizen science and democratic participation
Are you involved in a participatory process with citizens? Would you like to apply citizen science methodologies? Out of the laboratory, into the heart of the neighbourhood: citizen science moves away from more conventional laboratories, and invites all interested people to take part in research they are passionate about.
Design justice: an inclusive and fair look at culture
Opening the doors of cultural and community spaces is not enough to foster participatory and democratic spaces for all kinds of views. How can we promote processes that are truly open to all groups, and that do not reproduce the inequalities of the system?
The Tradition of Popular Athenaeums in Barcelona
Today in Barcelona the athenaeums continue to play a role in the city. Popular Athenaeums, manufacturing Athenaeums... The Canòdrom takes its name to reflect its open, participatory, self-organised and transforming character. They have been a key space for its struggles and transformations, a meeting, leisure and training space for organised society.
Housing: regulate or expropriate?
Housing: regulate or expropriate?
With the spokespersons of the referendum on the expropriation of large real estate properties in Berlin, the Barcelona and Glasgow loggers' unions and the LA CA Network from LA.
In the Shadow of Pegasus. Civil Rights in the Age of Surveillance
The violation of the civil rights of journalists, activists and politicians by the use of the Pegasus spyware by democratic governments has raised all the media alarms. Why, despite having a legal framework that protects us from the extraction of our data, does it not defend us against the use of spyware? How have we come to give up part of our freedom in exchange for a kind of promise of security from governments?