Nadia Yala Kisukidi. Photo: © Le Seuil
Activity
Wednesday, 18 February 2026
Black Fabulation and Freedom Dreaming
With Nadia Yala Kisukidi and AbdouMaliq Simone
Black Urbanities. Black Politics in the City
coming soon
The city is more than the built environment—it’s a product of imagination, shaped by complex histories and narratives about how we want to live. How have black people imagined and created counter-narratives of the city?
Beyond this, how have black people not only narrated stories of urban life in ways that speak to their everyday experiences, but also engaged in the practice of fabulation– imagining different possibilities altogether for how to live in the city? Against histories of deprivation, enclosure, and crisis, how do people resist the erasure of blackness and etch spaces of possibility and aspiration? In conversation with urban thinker AbdouMaliq Simone, philosopher and novelist Nadia Yala Kisukidi, key voice on Blackness, migration and the diaspora, reclaims the city as an unfinished terrain—instead asking how the city can be told through the practice of fabulation.
Welcome address by Judit Carrera, Director of the CCCB, and Elvira Dyangani Ose, Director of the MACBA.
this activity is part of
participants
A. M. Simone 
Nadia Yala Kisukidi
artists
2 artists
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Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.
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.
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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