To mark the occasion of Europe Day 2021, the European Pavilion Podcast is broadcasting its final episode. Celebrated on 9 May, Europe Day marks the anniversary of the Schuman Declaration, which proposed that a common trade in coal and steel would ensure lasting peace and unity in Europe. Today's challenges show us that this ideal from 71 years ago no longer endures.

For this concluding episode, we invite three guests from three generations of Europeans to look back at the European project and look ahead to the future. What could be, in the years and decades to come, the cement that holds us together? The emotional and material bond – or ‘cementiment’ – that would weave a sense of Europeanness?

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Silvia Bencivelli is an Italian science writer, radio and TV host. She works for the national Italian broadcaster Radio3 Rai and Rai Scuola. She writes for newspapers and magazines and teaches science journalism and communications at La Sapienza – Università di Roma. Her last book is Sospettosi (Einaudi, 2019).

Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev is an Italian-American writer, art historian and exhibition maker, she is currently the Director of Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea and Fondazione Francesco Federico Cerruti in Turin. She was Artistic Director of dOCUMENTA (13) in 2012.

Tobias Holle has been an activist with Fridays for Future Germany since 2019. As part of the climate movement, heis involved with European campaigns, advocates for climate issues and is part of the German press speaker team. He is currently studying environmental engineering.

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Addressing the issue of Europe’s image is not only about what is visible, but also about what escapes our gaze: the ideologies that underpin the European project; the fears, dreams and hopes that shape it; and the infrastructures that support our daily lives and which, paradoxically, often go unnoticed.

In this new episode of the European Pavilion Podcast, we discuss the elusive images of Europe and how they might challenge us to imagine our common future. And we ask ourselves: How do we understand the relationship between building a sense of belonging and building an image?

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Rodrigo Bueno Lacy is a researcher in political geography at the Centre for Border Research, Radboud University Nijmegen. He wrote his doctoral dissertation on the imagined location of the borders of the European Union.

Lena Dobrowolska & Teo Ormond-Skeaping are an artist collaboration working with photography, documentary film, installation, interactive documentary and research in order to produce multifaceted projects that are intended to reflect the complexities of today’s world. Since 2012 they have been working on projects relating to Climate Change and the Anthropocene.

Eglė Rindzevičiūtė is an associate Professor of Criminology & Sociology at the Kingston University in London. She is currently working on two monographs, titled 'The Politics and Epistemology of Prediction' and 'Beyond Containment: The Making of Nuclear Cultural Heritage'.

Benedikt Stoll is a trained architect, urban designer, and a co-founder and partner of the artists collective Guerilla Architects. He teaches urban design at the Leibniz University of Hannover. He hast been interested in the building of a new narrative for Europe since 2015 when he finished his architectural diploma project called {THE EUROPEAN DREAM}.

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In the third episode of the European Pavilion Podcast, we invite Australian scientist Tim Flannery to discuss what natural history can teach us about Europe, and what prospects it opens up, including from the perspective of politics. How can we understand public space in relation to nature? How can we envisage a sustainable future for Europe, based on a cultural understanding of our place in the world and our responsibility as part of a global ecosystem?

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Tim Flannery is a scientist, explorer, and conservationist who served as Australia’s Climate Commissioner from 2001 to 2013. He has published numerous books, including, Europe: A Natural History.

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