Black Urbanities. Black Politics in the City
By Charlotte Stace
“Black Urbanities. Black Politics in the City” is a three-day conference co-organised by CCCB and MACBA that explores what “Black Urbanism” looks like across different geographies, disciplines and political histories. Curated by AbdouMaliq Simone and Asha Best, it treats “black urbanism” as a way of understanding how Black communities continuously invent new ways of being urban.
Across talks and debates, the programme moves from the material (architecture, extractivism, reparative urban practices) to the political (autonomy, Blackness in urban Europe) and the imaginative (freedom dreaming, possible futures). It sits within MACBA’s Project a Black Planet framework and Barcelona’s 2026 World Capital of Architecture programme.
Highlights include sessions with speakers such as Nadia Yala Kisukidi, Mpho Matsipa, Elvira Dyangani Ose, and a closing performance by Saul Williams.