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    Bauhäusler on the Franco-Spanish Border
    (The Open Library Of Humanities, 2016-10-26) Martínez de Guereñu, Laura; BBVA Foundation; Fritz Thyssen Foundation; Fundación Rafael del Pino; Harvard University; https://ror.org/02jjdwm75
    This article focuses on the travels of Bauhaus masters and instructors and on the transport of Bauhaus products to Spain in 1929, when the Franco-Spanish border was still culturally permeable. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Marcel Breuer introduced their tubular-steel furniture in the Spanish market. Mies and Lilly Reich designed the interiors of all German industrial sections at the Barcelona International Exposition, where the Bauhaus sent objects from its carpentry, metal, and weaving workshops. Josef and Anni Albers traveled to see the exhibition and then went to meet Vassily Kandinsky and Paul Klee, who spent over a month on holiday in the Côte Basque. Albers captured their trip in photo collages, Kandinsky registered his impressions in snapshots, while Klee wrote abundant correspondence and produced drawings. Focusing on the itineraries the Bauhäusler followed, along with the means by which they expressed their travel impressions, this article reveals the effect of travel in their later design attitudes and work. Significant cultural transfers between Germany and Spain took place in a critical moment of European history, suggesting that further developments of these learning experiences might have materialized later on both sides of the border, possibly even reaching across the Atlantic.Fundación BBVA- Convocatoria 2015 de Ayudas a Investigadores y Creadores Culturales Bauhaus, España, América: Intercambios y Transferencias culturales (1928-1975)
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    Mens rea, wrongdoing and digital advocacy in social media: Exploring quasi-legal narratives during #deleteuber boycott
    (John Wiley and Sons Ltd, 2022) Illia, Laura; Colleoni, Elanor; Ludovico, Nuccio; Ravindran, Kiron; BBVA Foundation; York University; University of Fribourg; https://ror.org/02jjdwm75
    #Boycotts represent digital advocacy attempts in which users publicly punish an organization as a lurata (i.e.,jury),which assesses the guilty intent,the mens rea (i.e.,guilty mind),from a set of visible acts,the actus reus (i.e.,wrongdoings). Yet,we know little about the quasi-legal narratives advocated by users. To this aim,we developed a mixed method study of the #deleteuber boycott on Twitter. Our findings suggest that while users advocate both an Uber-specific and a shared mens rea of Uber with sharing economy firms or the tech giants of Silicon Valley,the latter narrative is the most prominent one; its use depends on whether users are part of a lurata of influencers or not. These findings provide a contribution to studies on public affairs that focus on online activism,boycotts in social media and digital advocacy because they increase our understanding of the opaque legal motivations that provoke boycotters. Also,they highlight that social media blurs the boundaries between boycotts directed at the firm from the boycotts arising indirectly due to the shameful acts of the industry or peers.