Shared Spaces with Joanna Bourke, Professor of History at Birkbeck College, University of London.
Shared Spaces interviews the architect Juan José Lahuerta about the concept of "public".
The writer was interviewed when she visited the CCCB to give a lecture titled “The Unmapped City”, which closed the “Open City” lecture cycle.
The former director of the CCCB speaks of the virtues and perils of public space and, more specifically, about political public space, which is frequently corporatized.
The Afghan lawyer talks about public space in Afghanistan and how this has changed since the outbreak of war in 2001.
Shared Spaces speaks with Moisés Naím, Venezuelan Minister for Trade and Industry in the early 1990s, a former director of the Central Bank of Venezuela and Executive Director of the World Bank.
The Barcelona writer considers the transformation of post-Olympic Barcelona: recovery of the seafront and the rise of tourism. He invokes childhood memories and comes to the defence of markets as public spaces.
The English criminologist and sociologist talks about security measures in public space. He believes these are necessary but warns that they also place barriers between different types of people and can even impoverish urban experience.
The German philosopher discusses his view of public space as the place in which people seek the best solutions for the political challenges they face. He also upholds face-to-face relations in a situation where public space is fast expanding on the Internet