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dpr-barcelona @dpr-barcelona.bsky.social · 7d

So proud to have a new book in da house, hot from the press!!

You can pre-order it here:
dpr-barcelona.myshopify.com/products/sta...

Our deepest gratitude goes to John Bingham-Hall, the participants at the residency programme hosted by Theatrum Mundi, and the @linacommunity.bsky.social 📖

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dpr-barcelona @dpr-barcelona.bsky.social · 8d

Archivers of the world unite and take over ✊🏼

Feminist City @feministcity.bsky.social · 8d

Today's the day! Join us on Zoom at 3pm: peoplespapers.eventbrite.co.uk
@cperguom.bsky.social @wcmlibrary.bsky.social @rememberlop.bsky.social @writerlytone.bsky.social

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dpr-barcelona @dpr-barcelona.bsky.social · 10d

If in Dublin, please save the date for the book launch of our forthcoming book 'Staging Ground'

🗒️ October 4th
🕐 4 - 6:30pm GMT+1
📍 @irisharchitecturef.bsky.social

A conversation between the editor, researcher and curator John Bingham-Hall and Emily Jones and Nicolas Howden, members of Rubble.

Staging Ground

Moving between performance and infrastructure in Dublin and Paris as part of The Writer's Table

www.eventbrite.ie

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dpr-barcelona @dpr-barcelona.bsky.social · 12d

"Exploiting vulnerability is the root of climate breakdown. It is because of architecture’s complicity in the exploitation of vulnerabilities that we say Architecture is Climate."

A must read, the project Architecture is Climate by MOULD as seen at Failed Architecture.

Vulnerability is Power - Failed Architecture

Building on MOULD’s ongoing research project, Architecture is Climate—which examines how the climate crisis is redefining architectural roles, res...

failedarchitecture.com

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Ethel Baraona Pohl @ethelbaraona.bsky.social · 15d

Several Chicago Architecture Biennial participants withdraw, citing sponsorship from Crown Family Philanthropies

www.archpaper.com/2025/09/seve...

We are part of the group that walked off from this event, as we believe that this kind of sponsorship is incompatible with the values of our work.

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Ethel Baraona Pohl @ethelbaraona.bsky.social · 20d

Esta tarde les esperamos en la mesa redonda 'Diseño, arquitectura y pensamiento utópico' a las 18h en el DHub

Una mesa en la que nos preguntan, ¿Qué tipo de arquitecturas estamos dispuestos a imaginar?, ¿Dónde se sitúan hoy las posibilidades para la especulación crítica?

Diseño, arquitectura y pensamiento utópico

La Bienal Internacional de Arquitectura de Euskadi Mugak/ llega a Barcelona con un encuentro de reflexión y diálogo en torno al poder del diseño y la arquitectura como herramientas críticas para imagi...

www.fad.cat

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dpr-barcelona @dpr-barcelona.bsky.social · 29d

'Diseño, arquitectura y pensamiento utópico'

Este 18 de Sept. tendremos a nuestra partner in crime @ethelbaraona.bsky.social en esta mesa redonda que une a la Bienal de Arquitectura del País Vasco Mugak/ y al ARQUIN-FAD para interrogarnos ¿Qué tipo de arquitecturas estamos dispuestos a imaginar?

Diseño, arquitectura y pensamiento utópico

La Bienal Internacional de Arquitectura de Euskadi Mugak/ llega a Barcelona con un encuentro de reflexión y diálogo en torno al poder del diseño y la arquitectura como herramientas críticas para imagi...

www.fad.cat

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Big Mike @michael-dagreat.bsky.social · Sep 4

This episode was such a hard hitting one. We take for granted our access to books, especially old books, but the fact that these books had to survive wars, fires, natural disasters, and book purges, it is nothing less than a miracle we still have some of these texts

Internet Archive @archive.org · Sep 3

📚 #Libraries aren’t just shelves of books, they’re survivors of fire, war, politics, & reinvention.

Andrew Pettegree & Arthur der Weduwen discuss their book THE LIBRARY: A FRAGILE HISTORY on the Future Knowledge #podcast.

🎧 Listen now ⤵️
futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/the...

Cover of the book The Library: A Fragile History, by Andrew Pettegree and Arthur der Weduwen.

Podcast cover for Episode #8 of "Future Knowledge" titled "The Library: A Fragile History." The design features portraits of the three guests—Abby Smith Rumsey, Andrew Pettegree, and Arthur der Weduwen—arranged in a grid. Surrounding them are collage-style retro-futuristic elements including a classical statue head, a vintage computer with the word "NEW" on its screen, a modernist observation tower, and abstract architectural shapes. The title uses bold, blocky typography, giving the cover a vintage sci-fi aesthetic.

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dpr-barcelona @dpr-barcelona.bsky.social · Aug 29

Sometimes we love to wander around some websites of the bookshops that sell our books just to see the section of "related items" and We love to discover what titles accompany us.

tique.space/library/publ...

In Brussels, the great Tique has these three beauties and we're kinda proud 📚🌱

Screenshot, white background, red texts and three book covers shown, they are: 'Passiviteit - Tussen onverschilligheid en pacifisme' by Alexandra Tryanova, Pascal Gielen; 'Feminist Art Activisms and Artivisms'; and 'Promiscuous Infrastructures: Practicing Care'

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dpr-barcelona @dpr-barcelona.bsky.social · Aug 24

Were working in the forthcoming two new issues of the @linacommunity.bsky.social writing award, in collaboration with the @irisharchitecturef.bsky.social.

📚🌈 Can you guess the next two colours to be added to this beautiful rainbow?

Four books over a table, forming a row one after the other, each cover is a different bright colour: orange, green, yellow, blue.

Four books over a table, forming a stack one after a bit rotated over the other so all four colours can be seen, the different bright colour are orange, green, yellow, blue.

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dpr-barcelona @dpr-barcelona.bsky.social · Aug 4

Library Stack is a lending library and media archive for new digital materials across the art, architecture, design, philosophy, media studies, moving image, sound and visual culture.

www.librarystack.org/publisher/dp...

We're proud that one of their stacks is the home of many of our books 📚🌱🫧

PUBLISHER: DPR-BARCELONA | LIBRARYSTACK∎

www.librarystack.org

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dpr-barcelona @dpr-barcelona.bsky.social · Jul 28

This year our beautiful LINA Library has been curated by the great Planting Solidarity Co., following their curatorial topic «Speaking with Your Mouth Full
Breaking formalities and chatting about ideas that mess with our minds and guts.»

🔗 linalibrary.com/curators/

with @linacommunity.bsky.social

Photo of a wooden, apparently outdoor table with an assemblage of leaves, a bit of bread (upper left corner) and just a few colourful petals. In the center of the foto the words "Speaking with Your Mouth Full" and below the title, in smaller font, the subtitle "A space curated by Planting Solidarity"

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dpr-barcelona @dpr-barcelona.bsky.social · Jul 27

Felices de encontrar a nuestros pequeñajos ayer en Laie Pau Claris (y ya de paso, visitar a viejos amigos como @acevedofiore.bsky.social y @damiagallardo.bsky.social)

Una de las libreras de Laie con varios libros expuestos de frente, entre ellos dos nuestros. Portada azul con una ilustración sencilla y el título en texto negro “Tender and Toxic Tales” y el otro, portada amarilla con el título en negro “Curating Ecologies on Architecture”

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dpr-barcelona @dpr-barcelona.bsky.social · Jul 20

Stay tuned for the forthcoming @linacommunity.bsky.social Writing Awards, a collaboration betwen the @irisharchitecturef.bsky.social and us.

One of the books to be out this fall is Đorđe Bulajić's 'Spectres of the Concrete Atlantis,' along with J. M. Ligot + Lucille Léger's 'Learning with Ghosts'

Đorđe Bulajić: Spectres of the Concrete Atlantis (LINA Writing Award 2025) - Announcements - e-flux

Đorđe Bulajić (Serbia) is a recipient of the 2024/25 LINA Writing Award, commissioned by the Irish Architecture Foundation (IAF).

www.e-flux.com

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dpr-barcelona @dpr-barcelona.bsky.social · Jul 17

"The book presents a series of case studies from contemporary European cities, exploring how marginalized and neglected public spaces can be revitalized through tactical interventions, co-creation practices, and ethnographic research."

www.shenghunglee.com/inspiration...

Thanks Sheng-Hung Lee!!

Photo of the book The Design of Tactics in front of a bookshelf. A hand is holding the book that has a colourful cover with gradients from blue (above) to red (below). The text on the cover is in big capital letters.

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dpr-barcelona @dpr-barcelona.bsky.social · Jul 15

Do you know that starting this week, residents and nationals from Switzerland are eligible to apply to become LINA Fellows. This is because @linacommunity.bsky.social has a new agreement with pro-Helvetia.

All the info, here: lina.community/open-call/

Come and join, deadline July 31st.

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CERN @cern.bsky.social · Jul 4

Watch to explore the scientific journey that culminated in finding the Higgs boson.

Find out more: home.cern/science/phys...

The Higgs boson

home.cern

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dpr-barcelona @dpr-barcelona.bsky.social · Jul 4

We have a beautiful book hot from the press!!

📚🌱 'Practices of Urban Inclusion: Exploring Space and Migration in Four European Cities,' presents a collection of texts in multiple languages, interviews, visual essays and situated examples from citizen-led solidarity initiatives and much more.

Practices of Urban Inclusion

This book explores the role of urban space and urban practice in creating conditions of exclusion and inclusion in European cities, especially in Berlin, Brussels, Milan and London.

dpr-barcelona.com

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Ethel Baraona Pohl @ethelbaraona.bsky.social · Jul 2

^ About the Cybersyn project, we wrote (with my dear @cerreyes.bsky.social for @dpr-barcelona.bsky.social blog) this post back in 2010.

After almost 15 years fascinated by this project it was mind blowing to have the the first complete and functional reconstruction of the Cybersyn here in Barcelona

Project Cybersyn | “At last, el pueblo”

While talking about cybernetics it comes to our mind future scenarios where Artificial Intelligence or bioengineering are part of our daily lives. Even this discipline was fully developed at the se…

dprbcn.wordpress.com

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The Funambulist @thefunambulist.bsky.social · Jun 9

Na Vata ni Tawake (Harmony and Rhythm of Space and Time). / Pencil and Ink. / Artwork by Ratu Ropate Rakūita Wailutu Kama.

"Loloma is solidarity
It’s the hand extended across seas, mountains, and deserts
a lifeline woven from the very essence of our being."

thefunambulist.net/magazine/bla...

Poster with the words "Indigenous Autonomy" and "Custodians of the Planet" as well as "Love" and "Vanua" with the illustrations of three birds, and three Indigenous people holding a banner.

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Ana Méndez de Andés @anamandes.bsky.social · May 27

Open Call from the Urban Commons Research Collective.

An initiative to broaden our understanding of communal living and stewardship by challenging the Western-centric notion of “the commons.”

Join us in this initiative by submitting an Expression of Interest until 20 June 2025.

An image of different terms related to commons in Turkish, Arabic, german, Aymara, Chinese or Greek, with their English translation and a background of colors with a thick white text saying: Urban Commons Reserach Collective OPEN CALL An archive and Glossary of Pluriversal Commons in Translation, and the website address: https://sites.google.com/sheffield.ac.uk/urban-commons/call

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Ana Méndez de Andés @anamandes.bsky.social · May 27

Our last collective endeavour was the Urban Comons Handbook.

Now, we seek to expand contemporary debates around urban commons with a pluriversal perspective, engaging the diversity of people, places, cultures, and knowledge involved in sharing practices.

dpr-barcelona.com/urban-common...

Urban Commons Handbook

A compilation of definitions, experiences and references around some of the questions that arise when thinking about commoning the city

dpr-barcelona.com

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dpr-barcelona @dpr-barcelona.bsky.social · May 26

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El Salto @elsaltodiario.com · May 25

💭El investigador brasileño, Paulo Tavares, cuestiona las ideas fundacionales del pensamiento, el diseño y la ciudad occidentales en el marco de la crisis ecosocial.

Por Gemma Barricarte.

Paulo Tavares: “La imaginación es el primer acto político”

A partir de sus estudios sobre las arqueologías ecológicas, políticas y arquitectónicas de la Amazonía, el arquitecto e investigador brasileño Paulo Tavares cuestiona las ideas fundacionales del pensamiento, el diseño y la ciudad occidentales en el marco de la crisis ecosocial.

www.elsaltodiario.com

dpr-barcelona @dpr-barcelona.bsky.social · May 17

«Books to reinforce the importance of these threshold locations where private shades into public, and “I” becomes “we.”»

Places Journal @placesjournal.bsky.social · May 8

We curated a library for the U.S. Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale!

The books featured in "PORCH: A Library" examine the commitments of people to one another and the planet, exemplifying the porch as a shelter for democratic encounter.

Read our curatorial statement & browse the books:

PORCH: A Library, at the Venice Architecture Biennale

Curated by Places, for the U.S. Pavilion

placesjournal.org

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dpr-barcelona @dpr-barcelona.bsky.social · May 14

"El autor aborda temas que continúan causando controversia, como las luchas por el poder, el liderazgo social, el papel de la prensa escrita y otros medios de comunicación, y una acertada crítica al sistema educativo actual."

The Wire vuelve a estar disponible, muy relevante para el momento actual.

The Wire

Con una estructura narrativa mezcla de guión, filosofía y periodismo, Žižek analiza diversas facetas de la sociedad a través de esta ficción televisiva, en la que la ciudad se transforma en un persona...

dpr-barcelona.com

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