Jordi Pardo participates at New York MoMA in the presentation of the project Linguamón-Casa de les Llengües consortium

Dec 18, 2008 - BM news


Jordi Pardo, director of the BM Cultural Lab, has participated in the presentation of the project Linguamón – Casa de les Llengües, in an act organized by the consortium, with the collaboration of the Institute Ramon Llull, which has taken place at the MoMA in New York, with the attendance of more than two hundred people of the world of culture and representatives of New York institutions.

Several other people have also intervened at the presentation such as Marta Casals Istomin, widower of the master Pau Casals; Hélène-Marie Gosselin, director of the UNESCO office at the New York headquarters; Bernat Joan, secretary of Linguistic Policy of the Generalitat; Mavi Dolz, director of the Institut Ramon Llull Languages area; the architect Benedetta Tagliabue, editor of the architecture project, and Antoni Mir, managing director of La Casa de les Llengües, who has pronounced an emotive final speech.

In addition to the presentation speeches of the project, some celebrities have participated in the act: the guitarist Toti Soler, the saxophonist Llibert Fortuny and the violoncellist Bernard Greenhouse. The presentation of the act has been in charge of the actress Assumpta Serna, under the artistic direction of Joan Oller.

La Casa de Les Llengües will be a cultural centre of 7.000 square meters dedicated to the linguistic diversity of the whole planet, which will be located at the old factory of Can Ricart. The BM Cultural Lab is preparing the museistic project, with the participation of the different research and specialist units.

This presentation is in the frame of the 2008 International Year of Linguistic Diversity, declared by the United Nations and in parallel with the seminar “Global Seminar ‘Linguistic Diversity, Globalization and Development’’ organized by the consortium Linguamón - Casa de les Llengües with the support of UNESCO at the headquarters of United Nations in New York.