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Politics of fragility in Catalonia<br />

charged with ethical and critical intention. They are aware that<br />

the grand discourse of the avant-garde is not effective and that<br />

the problems should be tackled from so-called micro-politics:<br />

from local, real and pragmatic but incisive actions that are corrected<br />

by ironic intelligence. The provisional, the light, the recycled,<br />

the austere and the pragmatic provide the answer to new<br />

forms of precariousness. So when they are a<strong>da</strong>pted to the new<br />

determinants of a new context, they connect with inventiveness,<br />

the ability to a<strong>da</strong>pt, the militant and activist modesty of<br />

their historical precedents and enable us to identify a genealogy<br />

whose meaning, in the light of the current crisis, has taken on<br />

new relevance.<br />

References<br />

Armesto A. & Diez, R. 2008. José Antonio Coderch. Barcelona:<br />

Santa & Cole.<br />

Pibernat, O. “Miguel Milà, elogi del dissenyador com a bricoleur”.<br />

In: AZARA, P. & PIBERNAT, O. 2003. Miguel Milà: 20:29. Barcelona:<br />

Generalitat de Catalunya, et al.<br />

Pizza, A. (Ed.) 2001. J. LL. Sert and mediterranean culture. Barcelona:<br />

Ministero de Fomento, Col·legi d’Arquitectes de Catalunya.<br />

Sweeney, J. 1959. Atmósfera Miró. Barcelona: RM.<br />

Vélez, P. 1999. La Cantona<strong>da</strong>. 1960-1975. Art civil i art sacre.<br />

Barcelona: Enciclopèdia Catalana.<br />

About the author<br />

Alex Mitrani teaches Art & Design History in the Centre Universitari<br />

de Disseny i Art EINA, Barcelona. Specialist on catalan modernism<br />

in XXth century and in contemporary art. Curator (e.g. “Alphonse<br />

Mucha: seducció, modernitat i utopia”, Fun<strong>da</strong>ció La Caixa,<br />

2008). <br />

Design Frontiers: Territiories, Concepts, Technologies 166

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