Los Angeles
Our Los Angeles center works to develop and encourage new ideas for a changing world and to propose practical thinking that can transform society—and humanity—for the better. Located on the Pacific coast, we hope to advance the position of Los Angeles as a world center for ideas, linking the East to the West. The historic Bradbury Building, houses the BI’s research activities and is a unique gathering space for intellectual exchange, academic symposia, workshops, salons, and lectures.
Featured News
The Political Possibilities of Whale Translation
A Democratic Revival 2,345 Years in Waiting
Future Histories of Life, Otherwise
Berggruen Prize Jury Welcomes Physicist Carlo Rovelli
"Governing for the planet" article in Aeon
California will finally have indoor heat standards for workplaces — with a cruel exception
Los Angeles as a Site for Planetary Health
Barcelona y Bogotá: ¿Cuál es la ciudad más democrática del mundo?
Barcelona vs. Bogota: What Is the World's Most Democratic City?
The Problem of Heat on an Unequal Planet
Kwame Anthony Appiah Delivers Berggruen Prize Lecture at the APA’s 97th Pacific Division Meeting
Public Equity Stakes in U.S. Economic Policymaking
Embodiment & Intelligence
El País: Patricia Hill Collins, sociologist: ‘Intellectuals have done a good job of saying the world is awful, and young people are dispirited’
Fiction and Futures
Vaster Than Empires Program
“It’s About the Present and Future, Simultaneously,” Interview with Qiufan (Stanley) Chen
“The Ultimate Expressions of Very Long Linages,” Interview with Ken Liu
“We Might Appear as Forest Fires,” Curator’s Statement
“What is Collective Intelligence?”
