The City and Science Biennial is a project promoted by Barcelona City Council through the Department of Science and Innovation.

This year, the Biennial will once again be held simultaneously in Barcelona and Madrid with the collaboration of the Círculo de Bellas Artes de Madrid.

As a novelty, this year it will have an extension to Mexico, coinciding with the Guadalajara International Book Fair (November 29 to December 7), of which Barcelona is the guest city.

The activities for this Biennial have been proposed by an independent curator.

Curatorship Barcelona

  • Alba Cervera

    Senior researcher in the Quantic group of the Barcelona Supercomputing Center - National Supercomputing Center (BSC-CNS) and coordinator of the Quantum Spain project. She has a PhD in quantum information from the University of Barcelona. She has worked at the University of Toronto. Throughout her career, she has focused on quantum technologies in general and quantum computing in particular, as well as on the short-term opportunities of quantum computing and the synergies between quantum physics and artificial intelligence. Since 2021, she has been coordinator of the Quantum Spain project, an initiative to promote the Spanish quantum computing ecosystem that has installed a quantum computer for public use at the BSC-CNS.

  • Toni Pou

    Physicist, science writer, co-director of the Postgraduate Course in Scientific Communication at the University of Vic (UVic) and co-founder of the scientific communication agency Eduscopi.

    Graduated in physics from the University of Barcelona and science writer. He coordinated the science supplement of the newspaper ARA for seven years and regularly collaborates in magazines such as El Món d'Ahir and in various programs of Catalunya Ràdio and other media. He has been curator of "L’Àrtic es trenca", a traveling exhibition produced by CosmoCaixa, of the Ciència Radical cycle of the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona and deputy director of the podcast "Radicals lliures" (Catalunya Ràdio). He is the author of several informative books and a novel on scientific themes, and screenwriter and executive producer of the audio fiction Impura sang (3Cat). His career has been recognized with several awards.

  • HACTE. Barcelona Art, Science and Technology Hub

    HacTe is an association led by Tere Badia, art historian and master's degree holder in Information and Knowledge Society from the IN3 (Internet Interdisciplinary Institute) of the UOC. The Association, founded in 2022, is made up of eleven entities from the academic, cultural, scientific, technological and industrial fields that promote collaborations between disciplines, sectors and institutions, fostering the creation of communities of practice and knowledge. HacTe believes in the inalienable nature of the transversality of the arts, sciences and technologies to think, understand and act on contemporary complexity. Its mission is to place this transversality at the centre of public debate. From HacTe, the specific working group on Quantum, led by Lydia Sanmartí (ICFO) with representation from the UOC, the UPF, the UPC, IFAE-BIST, Hangar and the New Art Foundation, has been contributing to the curation of the Biennial City and Science.

Curatorship Madrid

  • Elisa Garrido

    She holds a PhD in History and Theory of Art from the Autonomous University of Madrid. Her research interests focus on visual culture through the history of science, contemporary visual practices and the links between science and art. She has been a Fulbright Visiting Scholar postdoctoral researcher at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History and a visiting researcher at the Ruskin School of Art at the University of Oxford, among others. She has worked on cultural projects on art and science for Centro Cibeles, the Student Residence and the Royal Botanical Garden of Madrid.

  • Carlos Sabín

    He holds a PhD in Physics from the Complutense University of Madrid with a thesis on quantum information and has been a postdoctoral researcher and assistant professor at the University of Nottingham (United Kingdom). He has published more than 50 articles in high-impact international journals and has participated in more than 30 international conferences. He actively disseminates science through his blog Cuantos completos, on the SciLogs platform in the magazine Investigación y Ciencia. He is the author of Verdades y mentiras de la física cuántica (Catarata 2020).