The World Around Summit 2024

The World Around is an innovative nonprofit organization with a mission to connect, empower and amplify the exceptional new voices and ideas in global architecture. With a focus on and passion for social and ecological justice, we believe great design of all scales and by all people can be a catalyst for extraordinary change, which is why we collaborate with the world’s leading arts and design institutions to curate and commission “must-see” conferences, events and climate initiatives.

The World Around’s flagship Annual Summit, convening global architecture’s now, near and next will take place at the Guggenheim Museum in NYC on Saturday May 11th, 2024. This all-day program curated by Beatrice Galilee will be a year of architecture and design in a day, introducing the best of contemporary buildings, initiatives across landscape, technology and design today.

Participants include:

• Germane Barnes, Studio Barnes
• Joe Christa Giraso, MASS Design Group
• Sandra Jackson-Dumont, Lucas Museum of Narrative Art
• Ernesto Picco, Journalist, author
• Alexis Sablone, Professional skateboarder, member USA Olympic Team (2020), head coach USA Skateboarding (women’s team)
• Ma Yansong, MAD Architects
• Kongjian Yu, Turenscape