Berggruen Institute Europe Presents First Activities in Venice
Nicolas Berggruen and BI Europe Director Lorenzo Marsili gathered renowned thinkers such as Hans Ulrich Obrist, Giorgio Agamben, Carlo Rovelli, Francesca Bria, and Lea Ypi for the Institute’s inaugural public conversations and workshops at Casa dei Tre Oci in Venice.
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Karatani was chosen as the 2022 Berggruen Prize Laureate for his cross-disciplinary approach to modern philosophy, the history of philosophy, and political thinking in a time of global crisis. Karatani discusses why this lack of specialization made it possible for him to put forth an alternative to our current society.
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At BI’s second annual convening in Venice from June 5-7, world leaders, innovators, and thinkers from Helle Thorning-Schmidt to Kai-Fu Lee explored how the US and China can shape a positive future for AI, mitigate climate change, and navigate other urgent planetary issues in a time of renewed great power rivalry.
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Europe is often spoken of as a continent in decline, destined to become a great museum for the newly rich rising powers. BI Europe Director Lorenzo Marsili asks: what if Europe became a laboratory of the world instead?
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Whitewall explores Berggruen’s investment in Venice through his restoration of three locations—Berggruen Institute Europe at Casa dei Tre Oci, the Berggruen Arts & Culture initiative at Palazzo Diedo, and a revitalized cultural home and gathering place at Palazzo Malipiero.
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New York Magazine’s Eric Levitz provides a deep-dive response to Yakov Feygin and Nils Gilman’s Noema Magazine’s piece on “The Designer Economy.”
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The article outlines the JFI-Berggruen Institute suggested initiatives on how public banks could build or preserve affordable housing, assist with construction loans, and more.
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BI Executive Vice President Dawn Nakagawa analyzes ongoing tensions between China and the United States and highlights other troubling trends in The Indian Express.
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In a report prepared for Global Affairs Canada, the Berggruen Institute tasked nine experts from a variety of regional focus areas and academic disciplines to offer their views on what digital authoritarianism means.
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In conjunction with the Museum Berggruen’s traveling exhibition of modern masterpieces in Shanghai and Beijing, China Center and UCCA explore Chinese scholarly research on the complex meanings of modernity with Rupture and Reconstruction: Multiple Perspectives on Modernity from July 2023 to February 2024.
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Future Humans’ Claire Webb discusses how the discoveries of the James Webb Space Telescope will ripple through our moral universe, giving rise to new metaphors for describing the world.
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Ehsassi analyzes the first citizen’s assembly of its kind in the state of California and its lessons in cohesion and community building.
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Liversidge conducted more than 20 interviews with BI leadership, staff, fellows, and collaborators in 2020 and 2021—uniquely exploring the Institute’s history, core ideas, and plans for future work during the pandemic. The art book binds 50 of Peter Liversidge’s proposals into a tactile artifact to commemorate the Institute’s tenth anniversary.
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