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Pere Renom

“We gave you no fixed place, no form of your own, nor any assigned task, O Adam, so that by your own choice you might possess the place, the image, and the role you desire; neither heavenly nor earthly, neither mortal nor immortal did we make you, but free to shape yourself in the form you prefer, as your own maker and sculptor.”

Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

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The tower of Babel

published on 11.10.2017

The Castella school, in the Raval district of Barcelona, is an authentic Tower of Babel: in a class of 25 students we can find a dozen nationalities and around ten languages. But this linguistic diversity seems small when we expand the scale of observation. In Catalonia there are inventoried more than 300 different languages, and […]

Learning to write

published on 25.01.2012

Gal·la, a girl of 4 years, start learning to write. His father, the reporter Pere Renom, makes monitoring for 7 months and records her progress in identifying syllables, phonemes and graphemes represented in the letters of the alphabet. In the studio, Jaume Vilalta explains the curious history of letter B from the Egyptian hieroglyph which […]