{"id":13005,"date":"2017-02-11T11:32:44","date_gmt":"2017-02-11T16:32:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sds.parsons.edu\/urban\/?p=13005"},"modified":"2017-02-11T11:32:44","modified_gmt":"2017-02-11T16:32:44","slug":"barcelona-transition-grassroots-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/parsons.edu\/urban\/2017\/02\/11\/barcelona-transition-grassroots-government\/","title":{"rendered":"BARCELONA: The Transition from Grassroots Activism to Government. A Conversation with filmmaker Pau Faus and activist Rob Robinson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-13050 \" src=\"http:\/\/sds.parsons.edu\/urban\/files\/2017\/02\/New-Municipalism_R02_blacklogo_.jpg\" width=\"688\" height=\"1064\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #f44336\">Theories of Urban Practice Seminars<\/span><span style=\"color: #333333\">\u00a0will host\u00a0<\/span>Pau Faus<span style=\"color: #333333\">, a visual artist and documentary filmmaker and NYC-based activist\u00a0<\/span>Rob Robinson<span style=\"color: #333333\">. Their discussion will be around Pau Faus\u2019 latest documentary\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zt9OxJymG9s\" target=\"_blank\">Ada for Mayor<\/a><span style=\"color: #333333\">\u00a0about Barcelona\u2019s activist Mayor Ada Colau\u2019s one year, from her time spent organizing the anti-eviction fight in Barcelona to the day she is sworn-in as its Mayor. The importance of the work and both Pau and Rob\u2019s conversation is related to Barcelona\u2019s experience in providing a new citizen platform, a historic victory illustrative of the political changes taking place in Southern Europe. As both of the urban programs (MA TUP and MSc DUE) are focusing on various forms of activism and how these actions can be translated into democratic ways of representation, Barcelona\u2019s example is very crucial to discuss particularly very relevant for the current political climate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;font-family: roboto, sans-serif\"><b><span class=\"aBn\"><span class=\"aQJ\">Tuesday, February 21st, 2017<\/span><\/span> &#8211;\u00a0<\/b><\/span><b><span class=\"aBn\"><span class=\"aQJ\">6:00-9:00pm<\/span><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;font-family: roboto, sans-serif\"><b>The New School University Center,<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;font-family: roboto, sans-serif\"><b>Room 515<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;font-family: roboto, sans-serif\"><b>63 5th Avenue, New York, NY\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">FREE ACCESS<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-13064 \" src=\"http:\/\/sds.parsons.edu\/urban\/files\/2017\/02\/unnamed.gif\" width=\"536\" height=\"343\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Theories of Urban Practice Seminars\u00a0will host\u00a0Pau Faus, a visual artist and documentary filmmaker and NYC-based activist\u00a0Rob Robinson. 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