After attracting 1,500 people in its 2023 edition, the Hay Sevilla Fórum returns this March with a second edition focused on the debate on the factors that determine not only progress, but also the projection of the city’s image. Among all the attendees, the figure of filmmaker Stephen Frears stands out, who has already participated in previous editions of the Hay.
Hay Fórum Sevilla (from March 14 to 16) is a project of Hay Festival Spain, which organizes a festival with the same name in Segovia every year and which belongs to the global organization Hay Festival, created 37 years ago in the town of the same name. Welsh. The historians Michael Ignatieff and Antony Beevor, among others, participated in the first edition of the Andalusian forum. Frears will talk with the screenwriter and art critic Marta Medina at the Cajasol Foundation theater.
The central axis of the forum, directed by Sheila Cremaschi, is articulated around the idea of ??constructing the idea of ??the city. The debate between the exhibition curator Eloy Martínez de la Pera Celada and Sofía Barroso, organizer of the ARCO collectors program, is framed in this area. The moderator will be the journalist Joaquín López-Sáez and the topic will be Art, transforming the environment.
Architecture becomes a verb will bring together Reiner de Graff, from the architectural firm OMA, with the American urban planner and architect Martha Thorne. And The Century of Cities or the Lost Magic, by British urban planner Greg Clark, an expert in advising cities, with Miquel Molina, deputy director of La Vanguardia. Presented by Nuria Canivell, dean of the College of Architects of Seville.
Another highlight is the debate Beyond Architecture, in which Yvonne Farrell (Grafton Architects), winner of the Pritzker Prize, and the architect and president of the Valentín de Madariaga y Oya Foundation, Valentín de Madariaga, will participate. The geographies in the literary work of María Dueñas are part of the same sphere of the creation of the urban imaginary, where the novelist will talk with Ana Gavín, director of Editorial Relations at Planeta.
Already outside this central axis of urban planning, debates such as Journalism, critical state?, between Pepa Bueno, director of El País; Carlos Franganillo (Telecinco News); Teodoro León Gross (Canal Sur Television) and Rafa Latorre (El Mundo). Under the title Let’s Plan the Economy, the Korean economist Ha-Joon Chang and the British journalist Helena de Bertodano will debate.
And, in the literary field, the 2023 Cervantes Prize winner, Luis Mateo Díez, and the writers José María Merino, Juan Pedro Aparicio and Braulio Ortíz will also star in the Las Historias del Filandón event.
