Centre Magazine Issue #2: The Asia Issue

Unfolding Asia explores the layers, currents, and imprints of a region in constant transformation. From business and global relations to cultural dynamics and lifestyle, this issue examines the ideas, movements, and forces shaping the Far East today. Featuring contributions from thinkers such as Dambisa Moyo, Raekwon Chung, and Joseph S. Nye, alongside designers, writers, and creatives from across the continent, the issue reveals how tradition and innovation, resilience and reinvention intertwine to redefine Asia and its place in the world.

Highlights include:

• Tadao Ando’s Naoshima New Art Museum: architecture as narrative and renewal
• Asia’s New Chapter: economic, social, and ecological crossroads with Prof. Dr. Raekwon Chung
• TamTam: a traveling kitchen building community through food
• Resilience in Volatile Markets: Dambisa Moyo on navigating uncertainty
• In Bukhara, Everything Begins with a Plate of Palov: food, heritage, and the city’s first biennale
• The Great Power Game: Olof Nordenstam on electrification and the future of energy
• I Got a Thing for Chairs: Denise Chua on five striking chair designs by Asian designers
• Behind the Cover: Can Yıldırım and Lalin Mercan on transforming field recordings into visual landscapes

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