Beyond Injury 

Cristina Roldao, antiracist activist and pioneer in the decolonization of educational curricula in Portugal, and Jovan Scott Lewis, one of the leading voices the politics of repair in the United States, discuss with Tania Adam the possibility of a narrative of Blackness that goes beyond injury.

The freedom struggles of the past decade have rightfully captured the spectacle of violence against Black people across urban contexts. But what if we viewed blackness as a form of life beyond injury, that used the state of injury as strategic deception, a cover for generative practices of urban inhabitation always vulnerable to depreciation and attack?  

this activity is part of

Black Urbanities. Black Politics in the City 

activity

18.02.2026 – 20.02.2026

participants

Jovan Scott Lewis

Cristina Maria Roldão Pinto 

Tania Safura Adam

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This activity falls within the framework of Barcelona 2026 World Capital of Architecture

As part of Barcelona’s year as World Capital of Architecture, and coinciding with the celebration of the 30th anniversary of the museum, MACBA is to organise and host a set of activities exploring the crossover between contemporary art and architecture.

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exhibition

From 6 November 2025 to 6 April 2026

Project a Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica

MACBA Thirty

We celebrate Year Thirty of an infinite MACBA that projects the future as a space for revision and possibility: of taking up what was left unfinished, updating what needs it and projecting anew everything that can still be transformed.

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