Formulating Readmagine in Madrid, the Fundación Germán Sánchez Ruipérez’s Luis González is impressed with what ‘outsiders’ may offer.

Luis González: ‘New Skills Have To Be More Inclusive’

One of the most interesting elements of how Madrid’s Readmagine publishing program has presented itself to the industry this year has been its “relative weight of topics to be discussed this year” graphic. And in a year when the show’s founding director says the general thrust has to do with the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), “both in reading and in the work the publishing industry is doing,” sustaining a conference’s own momentum has been an issue to consider, too.

Since its first edition in 2005, the Readmagine series of conference events—organized by the Fundación Germán Sánchez Ruipérez (FGSR) in the Spanish capital’s extraordinary Casa del Lector complex—has focused on “the process of transformation of reading and books.” In the service of that goal, the program hosts “encounters among publishing and digital, urbanism, sociology, fashion, marketing, video gaming, and other fields of action.”

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By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson