11 Multidisciplinary talent
The UPF Barcelona School of Management is one of the main collaborators for the international tour of David Bowie is, the major exhibition on David Bowie and his work appearing at the Design Museum of Barcelona.
A true icon of pop, David Bowie was a multi-disciplinary musician and artist who was passionate about literature and fashion, as well as an actor, the subject of documentary films, and a cultural reference point for multiple generations. His image in itself represents taking on challenges, constant questioning of the status quo, experimentation, freedom of expression in its broadest and most cross-cutting sense, creativity, and reaction to change. These are values that the UPF Barcelona School of Management consider our own, and we work hard to transmit them to our students. [...]
The voices
The voice of an academic director of Financial Markets
What is the common point of connection between David Bowie, knives, and junk mortgages? It is their ability to innovateXavier Brun
Director of the Master’s Course in Financial Markets, UPF Barcelona School of Management
According to the dictionary of the Spanish Royal Academy of Language, to innovate means to change or alter something, introducing novel aspects. This is a term fully applicable to David [...]
The voice of an expert of literature
Modern loves and sordid detailsRodrigo Fresán
Writter and professor of the Master in Literary Creation
It is a bit disturbing and incomprehensible to consider the fact that, among the many rockers who for a while now have been trying their rather variable luck at writing [...]
The voice of an expert of fashion
David Bowie, or When You Just Don’t Care About FashionPepa Bueno
Professor of the Postgraduate Course in Fashion Media and Journalism 3.0
Although it might seem otherwise, David Bowie was never interested in fashion. But does this matter when the time comes to analyze the work of someone considered to be one [...]
The voice of an expert of branding
Call Me BowieOriol Costa
Professor of the Master in Brand Strategy and Creative Brand Management
In 1965 the musician David Robert Jones decided to call himself David Bowie. But although that’s how the story goes, that name change was not so simple. In reality, although [...]
The voice of an expert of culture
An artist in motionLuis Hidalgo
Professor of the Master in Cultural Journalism
It’s impossible to take a snapshot. Or in other words, as a moment frozen in time, a snapshot would be the worst way to capture David Bowie. Pop is movement, [...]
The voice of an expert of musical business
The Man Who Imagined the Music BusinessDavid Loscos
Director of the Postgraduate Course in Global Music Business Management
This summer it will have been 30 years since David Bowie arrived in Barcelona with his spectacular “Glass Spider Tour”. Viewed in retrospect, it was a tour that would fuel [...]
The voice of the dean of the UPF Barcelona Schoo of Management
Culture TransformsDaniel Serra
Dean of the UPF Barcelona School of Management
The UPF Barcelona School of Management, which is the graduate school of Pompeu Fabra University, has come together with the international touring exhibition entitled David Bowie is by means of [...]
The voice of an expert of cinema
Images for sound, sounds for a portraitAndrés Hispano
Professor of the Master in Creative Documentary
During the last few years there has been a proliferation of exhibitions focused on popular music: jazz, rock, and pop. It is easy enough to put objects on display from [...]