The World Around Summit 2022

New York-based platform The World Around returns this year for the third edition of its annual summit.

The Summit is co-presented with The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Het Nieuwe Instituut and curated by The World Around’s founder and executive director Beatrice Galilee. 

Global design practitioners will share recent projects that speak to internationally pressing issues including climate change, racial and social equity, ecology, Indigenous rights, digital technology and community. 

There will be presentations both in person from the Guggenheim, as well as from speakers sharing projects from around the world including Tokyo, Beijing, Rosario, Brasilia, Milan, Zurich and Barcelona.    

In person tickets have sold out. A live broadcast of the event will stream online for free, register to find out more, visit here.

Tadao Ando: Bourse de Commerce—Pinault Collection
The Pritzker-Prize winning architect reflects on his spectacular new project in Paris, the restoration of the Bourse de Commerce and its transformation into the Pinault Collection.  

Ursula Biemann: Forest Mind 
The artist will discuss her recent work and practice including a university that strives to unite diverse strands of knowledge on the intelligence of plants.

Sebastián López Brach: Paraná River 
Artist and photographer López Brach will present a new body of work documenting the droughts and forest fires along the wetlands of the Paraná River in Rosario, Argentina.

Sir David Chipperfield: Neue Nationalgalerie 
The award-winning architect speaks to his forensic renovation of Mies van der Rohe’s masterpiece in Berlin. 

DAAR: Refugee Heritage 
Sandi Hilal and Alessandro Petti will share a dossier to recognize the world’s oldest refugee camp, Dheisheh, as a UNESCO World Heritage site.  

Design Earth: The Planet After Geoengineering 
This graphic novel by design studio Design Earth makes climate engineering and its controversies visible in a series of five stories. 

Formafantasma: Cambio 
The Italian designers discuss their ongoing exhibition examining the expansive material networks of contemporary design. 

Amitav Ghosh & Lucia Pietroiusti: The Nutmeg’s Curse
In conversation with curator Lucia Pietroiusti, author Ghosh will discuss his new book that exposes the reader to a sprawling tale of capitalism and climate change.

Matthew Heineman: The First Wave
The award-winning filmmaker presents his moving new documentary that follows the first wave of the global pandemic in New York.

Chris Hildrey: ProxyAddress
Architect Chris Hildrey shares his digital platform designed to help address homelessness.

Miriam Hillawi Abraham: Abyssinian Cyber Vernaculus
The Ethiopian spatial designer will present her latest series of VR experiences designed to contest the active exclusion of Black and Brown formalisms and knowledge from the architectural canon.

Lesley Lokko: African Futures Institute 
Recently appointed curator of the 18th Venice Architecture Biennale, Lokko shares this new independent postgraduate school of architecture and public events platform in Ghana. 

Camila Marambio: Turba Tol Hol-Hol Tol
The Santiago-based curator will present on this under-construction project that explores the conservation of peatlands.

Dominique Petit-Frère: Limbo Accra 
Based in Accra, Ghana, Limbo Accra is an innovative new architecture infused spatial design studio.

Monument Lab: National Monument Audit
Learn more about the first ever survey assessment of the monument landscape across the United States presented by Paul Farber, founder of Monument Lab.

MVRDV: Depot Van Beuningen 
Winy Mass shares the world’s first fully accessible ‘open storage’ art depot - located in the centre of Rotterdam.

Ooze: The City of 1,000 Tanks 
Eva Pfannes presents a collaborative initiative to mitigate and adapt to climate risks of flood and drought. 

Open Architecture: Chapel of Sound 
Beijing-based architects present a new monolithic open-air concert hall next to the Ming-era Great Wall. 

Amie Siegel: Asterisms 
New York-based artist Amie Siegel will discuss her practice in conversation with Beatrice Galilee. 

Himali Singh Soin: We are Opposite Like That 
The artist presents her ongoing series of interdisciplinary works on ice and stories. 

Paulo Tavares: Trees, Vines, Palms and Other Monuments
Brazilian architect, writer and educator will ask whether we can claim trees, vines and palms to be historic monuments.

Top Manta: Ande Dem 
The collective share their new design product, part of their work to help improve the living conditions for street vendors in Barcelona.

The World Around is made possible by the generous support of Meta Open Arts, Amura and private donors.