» The second edition of the Time Public Policies Report is presented, which includes a total of 75 actions promoted by the municipal council in 2023.
» Key agents of the Barcelona City Council have met to reflect on and work on the development of time policies.
On June 26, the draft of the 2023 Time Public Policies Report, which will soon be made public, was presented to the staff of the Barcelona City Council in the Saló de Cròniques.
The event was attended by various directors, departments, and municipal organizations of the City Council that promote time policies aimed at fostering a new culture of time more healthy, equal, efficient, and sustainable, with both internal and external impact.
Maria Rengel, Director of Feminism and LGTBI Services, was responsible for welcoming attendees to the working day and presentation of what becomes the second report on the City Council’s time public policies. The director gave a brief overview of more than twenty years of time policies at the City Council and reported the change in leadership of time policies from the previous Directorate of Gender and Time Policies Services to the current Directorate of Feminism and LGTBI Services.
The leitmotiv of this report was also discussed: reinforcing the mainstreaming of time policies in the council and the need to continue advancing in the implementation of the time perspective in public policies promoted by the City Council.
Laura de Caralt, a technician from the Directorate of Feminism and LGTBI Services, presented some of the most significant qualitative and quantitative results around the 75 actions promoted by the municipal council during 2023. In this space, the future challenges of time policies were also addressed, which should guide the municipal strategy and, as evidenced by the various contributions of the reference persons present at the session, are aligned with the bases of the different municipal areas.
In this context, Pilar Lleonart, Head of the City Education Programs Department, presented the project Game Space 0-99, which is part of the Public Space Play Plan with a horizon of 2030 within the framework of the Barcelona Playable City work line. A project whose key objectives are the community aspect and the interconnection with the natural environment from an approach that understands play space and time as a citizen’s right.
The report presentation also featured the participation of Míriam Martínez Camacho, a technician from the Directorate of Feminism and LGTBI Services, who emphasized the report’s methodological process, listing the objectives related to the data collection process and aimed at developing time policies, as well as the need to create interdepartmental synergies.
Finally, a space was opened for the exchange of ideas around time policies.
Key agents agreed on the need to promote the mainstreaming of time policies in the municipal council, as well as strengthening the approach from an intersectional perspective in design, implementation, and evaluation. In this regard, special emphasis was placed on the need to integrate the intercultural perspective and address social inequality factors, which are especially linked to time poverty.
Grounding time policies from a more pragmatic perspective was also one of the key agents’ requests, along with a greater expansion of time policies in the cultural, childhood, and health areas.
The session in the Saló de Cròniques, therefore, became an essential space for exchange and synergy creation in terms of time policies by municipal staff; fundamental for continuing to build public policies that promote a healthier, more equal, efficient, and sustainable organization and city.