The 80 questions that help you understand the world
Giampaolo Musumeci and Beppe Salmetti dialogue with the public at the Festival of Economics. Irony and light tones to reflect on wars, crisis and migration
Key points
Understanding the world from a question. Or rather, from many questions. This is the heart of the show "Around the world in 80 questions. from Borgo Valsugana to Kamchatka" presented at the Trento Festival of Economics by Giampaolo Musumeci and Beppe Salmetti: a journey through geopolitics, wars, migrations, technology and global changes told in an accessible, ironic and highly interactive language.
A global journey that starts with the public
The idea stems from a simple observation: audiences today are hungry for foreign news, international scenarios, keys to interpreting an increasingly complex world. So no frontal lectures or congealed conferences, but a show built on dialogue and direct involvement of the audience.
"How are you?" This is where the journey starts. From an apparently simple question, which becomes the pretext to cross international crises, oil price rises, conflicts, economic facts and the impact of technology. Because geopolitics is not something far removed from everyday life: it enters homes, influences the price of bread, olive oil, energy.
Geopolitics explained with a smile
The tone is deliberately light, almost light-hearted. 'How is the war going? Boh, what do I know,' the two joke on stage. A way of dismantling the rhetoric of omniscient experts and reminding them that the world does not offer easy answers.
In between jokes, however, come serious topics: from the Strait of Hormuz to Samp/T missile systems, from checkpoints to tensions between China and Taiwan. Issues that we often hear about in the news without anyone really explaining them to us.
