On 26 September and 4 October, the CCCB will host a series of debates that will address public space from the potential of the collaborative design and limitations imposed by social control and sexual exclusion.

As a place of encounter and exchange, public space is permeated by the values of coexistence but, at the same time, it is a front of conflict where inequality and resistance emerge. With this contradiction as a starting point, the Centre of Contemporary Culture of Barcelona (CCCB) will host a series of debates enrolled in the postgraduate course Public space: urban policies and citizenship. Organised by the Open University of Catalonia (UOC), the Institute for Government and Urban Policies (IGOP) and the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), the debates will consist of two sessions that will address public space from the possibilities offered by collaborative design and from limitations imposed by social control and sexual exclusion.

Collaborative design of public space
26 September, 19h, CCCB (Raval hall)

Presenter:

• Joan Subirats, Professor of Political Science at the UAB

Speakers:

• Tomás Sánchez-Criado, Post-doctoral researcher in the Department of Social Psychology at the UAB
• Paco González, architect and urban planner

Moderator:

• Marc Grau-Solés, political scientist

Pub(l)ic space: sexuality and social control in the city
4 October, 19h, CCCB (Raval hall)

Presenter:

• Jordi Borja, geographer and urban planner

Speakers:

• Gerard Coll-Planas, PhD in sociology
• Clarissa Velocci, agent of Genera (Association to defend the rights of women)

Moderator:

• Albert Arias, geographer