MACAO/ LTBC
New cultural institutions/Old cities New movements devoted to depicting a new approach to art, social changes, politics and governance of the public good, have been born all around Europe, often through strong statements, like protesting, squatting and wide participation. However, the response of the old cities to the conflict, implicit consequence to the strong acts from which these new movements are born, has been different, from who have decided to oppose the development of the new and who decided to endorse it. In this essay, we analyze the main conflicts generated by the development of these new institutions trying to conclude what this reflects about the contemporary city. The two collectives we will analyze in this paper is MACAO, from Milan and LTBC, from Madrid. Two collectives that work on the generation of new means of production not focused on the money value but on the social and cultural value. To make this new model possible, both the collectives base their activities on some main principles, which are significative for the research mead in this paper: full autonomy for the organization and development of the initiative by its members, exploration of public management in terms of participatory democracy, promotion of low-cost cultural practices and free culture, a programming methodology distant from the classical practices of cul-tural management, an effort to level the various scales of social and cultural expression.