Often, cinema and books have fictionalized the future. Sometimes they have succeeded; in other cases, the result has not been successful. In any case, attempting to project the present into the future is a very human characteristic. This is the underlying proposal of the book, aiming to open a reflection and dialogue between the present and the future, provoking a rethinking of the city and the country we want. To achieve this, the book compiles a hundred men and women from Barcelona, known and not so well-known, of very different ages, genders, and dispositions, citizens who live and work there. Each one of them sketches a diverse, personal, changing future, all while trying to imagine what the city of Barcelona will be like in the year 2048.
The book presentation took place at the Moragues Hall of El Born Centre de Cultura i Memòria (Commercial Square, 12, Barcelona), this November 11th, at noon. The event, presented by journalist Maria Xinxó, began with the intervention of the president of the entity, Francesc Sendil, followed by the recording of the podcast La Reserva del Temps de les Arts, by Damià Amorós, with philosopher Bernat Dedéu and anthropologist Montserrat Clua. The closure was by the musical ensemble Gili-Romaní Hot Jazz Cats.
