Through creative practice, events, film, data and sound, LAGO explores what borders mean and what it might look like to reimagine and reclaim them.
Podcast - (un)common ground
10.11.2025
Audio
Hosted by Marta Foresti, (un)common ground explores movement, borders and everything in between through unusual, unexpected and sometimes controversial conversations that build common ground where none exists.
Event - The Beauty of Movement 2025: The Moving City
10.10.2025
Event
Hosted at the Whitechapel Gallery, this edition of LAGO's annual flagship event explored the metropolis as a crossroads for ideas, stories and people and what it means to live in a truly moving city.
Event - In Transit with In The Dark Radio
31.07.2025
Event
An evening of radio documentaries, sound art, music and performance at Oxford House, London, curated by Fatuma Khaireh in association with In The Dark, exploring how we move through the world.
Event - Milan Design Week with Prada Frames
01.05.2025
Event
Marta Foresti spoke at Prada Frames during Milan Design Week 2025 exploring borders, routes and resistances as physical and political infrastructures that shape how people move through the world.
Advisory - Moleskine Foundation Creativity Pioneers Fund
01.01.2025
Advisory
Marta Foresti appointed Senior Advisor to help ground the Moleskine mission of “Creativity for Social Change” in sound analysis and evidence and collaborating on various initiatives in creative sectors and economic and social change.
Event - The Beauty of Movement 2024: All Other Passports
18.11.2024
Event
In collaboration with Moleskine Foundation and Phaidon Press, LAGO's flagship event explored how passports act as gateways to visit, perform and travel - yet not for everyone.
Words - Another Migration Story is Possible
01.07.2024
Words
Arts, design, music and poetry can do what policy arguments often can't: shift how we think about the movement of people. This essay makes the case for an imaginative vocabulary to tell a different migration story.
Event - The Beauty of Movement 2023: Arts and Research for new Migration Narratives
02.06.2024
Event
Moving across borders is much more than just crossing them. An evening exploring the creativity, ideas and hopes of people making these journeys and why this beauty remains an untold migration story.
Advisory - The Global Compact on Migration
Strategic advisory to the Co-Facilitators of the Global Compact on Migration throughout the negotiations
Event - EU Development Days
Moderation of high-level panel with global leaders at EU Development Days 2019
Opinion - The Carnegie Endowment for Peace
With the Africa Program, contribution to an edited collection of essays on rethinking Africa-Europe relations
Project - Hearts and minds
How do Europeans really feel about immigration and what shapes those views? This data visualisation project maps individual and societal perceptions across European countries, tracking how attitudes shift over time and why.
Project - Keyworkers
An award-winning data visualisation on the contribution of migrant workers to the COVID-19 response, mapping the reforms, initiatives and campaigns that recognised their essential role and fought for better support.
Event - Digital Design with Palazzo Grassi
Held at Palazzo Grassi in Venice, this masterclass explored how to read and understand data and how to transform it into data visualisations that are as beautiful as they are impactful.