
Barcelona’s Municipal Policies since 15-M
The notion of the speed of time could not be more evident than in the fact that today, when writing this text, the historic date of May 15th 2011, a moment when the anti-austerity protests and occupations of public space opened a new horizon of political action known in Spain as the historic »15-M«, is turning fourteen. These fourteen years that embody previously unimaginable paradigm shifts and incredibly rapid transformations in the Catalan metropolis of Barcelona. They have also had a peculiar effect on our (political) life, in terms of the way speed, density, rhythm and interruptions in the passing of time impact us.
Kathrin Golda-Pongratz (KGP) has been engaged in the city’s programmes and urban interventions of democratic memory since the creation of the city’s Institut dels Passats Presents and a curator and consultant under Barcelona en Comú's council of Democratic Memory.
Xavi Ferrer ist Aktivist bei Barcelona En Comú und einer der Verantwortlichen für die interne Organisation.
Jere Kuzmanić (JK) is a doctoral student researching the anarchist strain of urbanism and an activist in the Pla Popular de Barris de Muntanya, which tries to defend a self-built neighbourhood from pending eviction and gentrification.