Graffiti of Mayor Manuela Carmena. Joan Pedro-Carañana. All rights reserved.Madrid provided a perfect setting for the Transeuropa festival that was held on 25-29 October. Many discussions that took place reflected key debates and contradictions that have turned Spain’s capital into a key control experiment in politics for change. In Madrid, new and often differing ideas have emerged on how to address the ills affecting society.
This article conducts a tour d’horizon around the different social, political, cultural and economic proposals for change that have been promoted in Madrid since 2011.
Questions in general
Processes of change should connect a diagnosis of the existing structural context of multiple, interconnected crises with a viable therapy. Some of the key questions that arise are the following:
