Tadao Ando and Open Architecture to take part in The World Around Summit 2022

Pritzker Prize-winning architect Tadao Ando, Chinese studio Open Architecture and Italian design studio Formafantasma are among the speakers at The World Around Summit 2022, a day of talks that Dezeen is live streaming on 5 February.

Throughout the day, experts will share recent architectural projects that explore a range of global issues, including racial and social equity, climate change, ecology and indigenous rights.

Founded by Beatrice Galilee, The World Around is an online non-profit organisation that hosts critical discussions with experts on design, architecture and culture.

This year's summit is co-presented by The World Around, the Guggenheim Museum, and Het Nieuwe Instituut. The in-person event will be held at the Guggenheim Museum in New York, from where it will be live streamed.

Other speakers include filmmaker Matthew Heineman, curator Camila Marambio and author Amitav Ghosh.

Read on for the full line-up and register for more information.

Above: a video still from Cambio, 2020. Courtesy of Formafantasma. Top image: Open Architecture will discus its Chapel of Sound project

Session One
12:00am New York time (5:00pm London time)

The summit's first session will focus on educational projects and architectural ideas that "moved the world".

Curator Lesley Lokko will discuss the African Futures Initiative, a postgraduate school of architecture based in Ghana.

Author Amitav Ghosh will discuss his new book called The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis, 2021, while artist Himali Singh Soin will speak about her series of works exploring ice.

Curator Camila Marambio will discuss the Turba Tol Hol-Hol Tol, a project that aims to develop a community focused on peatland conservation.

Other speakers include designer Eva Pfannes, design collective Top Manta, artist Ursula Biemann and Italian design studio Formafantasma.

Tadao Ando will speak about the restoration of Bourse de Commerce in Paris

Session two
2:15pm New York time (7:15pm London time)

The World Around's second session, presented by Aric Chen, director of the Het Nieuwe Instituut, will explore how "visualising the networks and processes behind materials can generate action and visibility for complex or otherwise invisible issues".

Architect Tadao Ando will speak about the restoration of the Bourse de Commerce in Paris and its conversion into the Pinault collection.

Speaking from Beijing, Open Architecture will talk about the Chapel of Sound, an open-air rock-like concert hall located outside Beijing.

Design collective Design Earth will speak about its book called The Planet After Geoengineering. Other speakers include architect Dominique Petit-Frère, architect Winy Maas and designer Amie Siegel.

Rio Adentro photographed by Sebastián López Brach

Session three
4:30pm New York time (9:30pm London time)

The summit's final session will be presented by Cyra Levenson of the Guggenheim Museum and will focus on how opinions towards monuments and ecological preservation have changed over the past year.

Architect David Chipperfield will talk about the renovation of the Neue Nationalgalerie built by Mies van der Rohe in Berlin.

Designer Miriam Hillawi Abraham will present Abyssinian Cyber Vernaculus, a virtual reality project, and photographer Sebastián López Brach will discuss his photography of Rosario's forest fires.

Filmmaker Matthew Heineman will present The First Wave, a documentary exploring the effect of the pandemic in New York, while architect Chris Hildrey will discuss ProxyAddress, a digital platform created to address homelessness.

Other speakers include Monument Lab and architect Paulo Tavares.

The World Around will also be streaming a series of short films made by designers in Liam Young’s Film & Entertainment MSc Program at Sci-Arc university.

The World Around takes place online on 5 February. See Dezeen Events Guide for an up-to-date list of architecture and design events taking place around the world.

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The World Around "speaks about design as current affairs" says Beatrice Galilee

Dezeen has teamed up with The World Around to live-stream its 2022 summit on 5 February. Ahead of the conference, founder Beatrice Galilee explains the summit's focus and forecasts the changes she expects to see in the design industry this year.

The 2022 edition of architecture symposium The World Around will cover a wide range of contemporary topics including the rights of forests and trees to whether refugee camps should achieve world heritage status.

According to founder Galilee, this is part of an attempt to "disentangle contemporary architecture from the narrative of a primarily western canon".

"We try to use The World Around as a way to speak about design as current affairs, not just describing objects or buildings," Galilee told Dezeen.

"This year we are seeing more and more people working to unpack and understand the intensely complicated world we are living in."

Speakers at this year's conference include curator Lesley Lokko, who will present a new educational platform in Ghana called the African Futures Initiative, author Amitav Ghosh, who will discuss his new book the Nutmeg's Curse, and film director Matthew Heineman, who will focus on his documentary about the pandemic in New York called First Wave.

Above: Beatrice Galilee founded The World Around in 2020. Top: a photograph of Josh Begley's short film Best of Luck with the Wall, which was screened at the 2020 summit

The 2022 edition of The World Around is the third annual summit organised by the non-profit organisation, which was founded by Galilee in 2020 with the aim of deepening architectural discourse.

Dezeen previously live streamed the inaugural symposium in 2020 and the 2021 summit, in addition to the In Focus: Land series of talks The World Around hosted last year and a collaboration as part of Virtual Design Festival to mark Earth Day in 2020.

The World Around 2022 summit will be live-streamed on Dezeen on 5 February.

Read on for an interview with Galilee about The World Around and her plans for the summit below.

Dezeen: What is The World Around and why did you start it?

Beatrice Galilee: Someone once said The World Around was like a first draft of architectural history, which I really like. We create public programmes that bring together the most recent, important, influential, and emerging global architects, designers, and artists and ask them to share their work in a very short and accessible way.

I was the first architecture and design curator at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and during the five years I was there, I tried to develop an effective way of regularly and impactfully communicating contemporary architecture and design. I organised a series of public programmes, 'In Our Time', and an annual all-day conference, 'A Year of Architecture in a Day' that we live-streamed on Dezeen.

Before The Met, I had been travelling all over the world working as a curator for biennales in China, Korea, and Portugal, had worked on really fun events for Milan Design Week, and had also started The Gopher Hole, my own space in London with aberrant architecture. The World Around is kind of a hybrid of all those curatorial experiences!

It brings what I learned from working with large, slow organisations and the fast-paced experimental spirit of biennales. We started just before the pandemic in January 2020, so things have changed quite a bit since our first event.

The inaugural edition of The World Around took place in New York in 2020

Dezeen: How did things change since your first event in January 2020?

Beatrice Galilee: It was a huge financial challenge to survive. As a brand new public charity, we don't have our own physical space, certainly not an auditorium, and so I decided to create collaborations with institutions that can host and broadcast those events. During the first few weeks of the pandemic, we worked with the team at Dezeen who hosted the Virtual Design Festival and organised our first 'Earth Day' public programme.

We then developed a residency model with the Guggenheim Museum in New York who hosted our annual summit last year and will be hosting our annual summit on 5 February this year, and we are now also in partnership with Het Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam. They are our first European partner, and we are working with them on a big event for 11 June, and we are talking to a few other international institutions about how we can collaborate with them too.

After the live event, we can then make the presentations into short films on our website so they're free and accessible to everyone. As an itinerant model, we're keen to partner with institutions all over the world to ensure we're raising awareness of the role architecture and design can play in critical conversations, as well as sharing inspiring stories of international designers, thinkers, and makers.

Previous editions of The World Around featured research by Julia Watson into indigenous architectural technologies

Dezeen: What do you think are the big shifts we'll see in the architecture and design sector this year? Where can the sector help global issues?

Beatrice Galilee: We try to use The World Around as a way to speak about design as current affairs, not just describing objects or buildings. This year we are seeing more and more people working to unpack and understand the intensely complicated world we are living in.

We have author Amitav Ghosh speaking about his new book the Nutmeg's Curse, film director Matthew Heineman will be speaking about his new documentary First Wave about the pandemic in New York, and Lesley Lokko will be presenting the African Futures Initiative, a new educational platform in Ghana.

In the past we have had Caroline Criado Perez speaking about design, data, and gender and BlackSpace urban collective sharing their work for Black architects and urbanists in the US, we have had programs discussing land and indigenous rights in the US.

Speakers at previous editions of The World Around include architect Junya Ishigami

Dezeen: What can you tell us about this year's summit? What is the focus?

Beatrice Galilee: The summit is always a round-up of all that happened over the past year. So we don't have a specific thematic focus, it just emerges after examining all the interesting projects and activities of the year.

One thing that really stands out is a sense of responsibility amongst designers and practitioners to disentangle contemporary architecture from the narrative of a primarily western canon. What architecture becomes history and why? What is preserved and for whom? Should a refugee camp achieve world heritage status? What are the rights of trees and forests? How can we use technology - games, apps, digital projects - to have a meaningful impact on lives and spaces?

Dezeen: Where would you like The World Around to be in five years?

Beatrice Galilee: We have lots of plans for the future! I would love to see The World Around organising events in many new cities and spaces, developing long-term collaborations with major global institutions.

The World Around takes place online on 5 February. See Dezeen Events Guide for an up-to-date list of architecture and design events taking place around the world.

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Watch The World Around In Focus: Land live talks

Environmental social scientist Holly Jean Buck and MASS Design Group principal Joseph Kunkel are among the speakers participating in The World Around In Focus: Land, an afternoon of talks exploring contemporary post-colonial land-use issues. Watch live from 1:00pm New York time.

The live stream has not started yet. It will start at 1:00pm new York Time (6:00pm London time).

The free online public programme is the latest event by The World Around – a non-profit organisation founded in 2020 by Beatrice Galilee with the aim of deepening architectural discourse.

Part of The World Around's year in residence at Guggenheim Museum, the event is the first in a series of "In Focus" events focused on contemporary post-colonial land-use issues and aimed at building a more equitable future.

The event brings together artists, activists and practitioners from around the world across three themed sessions, titled Community, Technology and Ecology, which the organisers said will explore "the compelling and important stories of artists, researchers, designers, scientists and architects whose work explores the agency of infrastructures and systems that shape our lives and deplete natural resources".

As well as Buck and Kunkel, other speakers include urban planner Renee Kemp-Rotan, artist Simon Denny, anthropologist Elsa Hoover, and multidisciplinary artists Carolina Caycedo and David De Rozas.

Find out more about the programme ›

The World Around In Focus: Land takes place online on 22 October. See Dezeen Events Guide for an up-to-date list of architecture and design events taking place around the world.

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Holly Jean Buck and Joseph Kunkel to present at The World Around In Focus: Land

Dezeen has teamed up with The World Around to live-stream its In Focus: Land event on 22 October, an afternoon of free online talks exploring the complex post-colonial issues of land use in the 21st century.

Environmental social scientist Holly Jean Buck and MASS Design Group principal Joseph Kunkel are among the speakers scheduled for The World Around In Focus: Land.

The event will bring together artists, activists and practitioners from around the world across three themed sessions as part of The World Around's year in residence at Guggenheim Museum.

Event to explore the "infrastructures and systems that shape our lives"

The free online public programme is the latest event by The World Around – a non-profit organisation founded in 2020 by Beatrice Galilee with the aim to deepen architectural discourse.

With The World Around in Focus: Land, the organisation says it will "share the compelling and important stories of artists, researchers, designers, scientists and architects whose work explores the agency of infrastructures and systems that shape our lives and deplete natural resources".

The World Around's previous events include January's 2021 summit, also live-streamed on Dezeen, and an Earth Day symposium held as part of Dezeen's Virtual Design Festival.

The October 22 forum will be the first in a series of "In Focus" events focused on contemporary post-colonial land-use issues and aimed at building a more equitable future.

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The talks will unfold across three sessions – titled Community, Technology and Ecology – and will be followed by discussion.

The World Around In Focus: Land will be live-streamed on Dezeen on Friday October 22 from 6:00pm to 9:00pm London time (1:00pm to 4:00pm New York Time), as well as the Guggenheim Museum's YouTube channel.

The World Around has been in residence at the museum throughout 2021, with the October 22 event marking the last of the activities programmed under its auspices.

Read on for the full line-up and register to take part on the day.

Welcome to Africatown image by CG Foisy. Image above Atquetzali Quiroz with Kalpulli Yaocenoxtli dances at a Stop Line 3 Rally by Jaida Grey Eagle

Community

The first session will feature designer and educator Kunkel, who is a citizen of the Northern Cheyenne Nation Kunkel and a principal at MASS Design Group, where he directs the Sustainable Native Communities Design Lab. He will speak about integrating and lifting indigenous voices into community design projects.

He will be followed by urban planner Renee Kemp-Rotan, who is the first African American woman to graduate from Syracuse University with a Bachelor of Architecture. She will share the story of her current project, the Africatown International Design Idea Competition, which will create an Africatown Cultural Mile to mark the first African settlement in the US in Mobile, Alabama.

This session will be moderated by architect Emanuel Admassu.

Installation view Simon Denny Mine, Petzel, New York, 2021

Technology

Artist Simon Denny will start the next session. Denny's art, including the recent exhibitions Mine and Proof of Stake, interrogates the way technologists frame land-use issues, including around mineral extraction and labour practices.

Speaking next will be environmental social scientist and geographer Buck, whose recent book After Geoengineering laid out the progressive case for geoengineering. She will speak about how emerging technologies can help build a regenerative society.

This session will be moderated by curator Dani Admiss.

Veronica Smith and Valerie Whitebird harvest rice at the Fond du Lac Reservation in northern Minnesota. Image by Jaida Grey Eagle

Ecology

The final session will start with anthropologist Elsa Hoover, who is an associate professor in Environmental Science, Policy and Management at UC Berkeley. She will speak about her work on food sovereignty and environmental justice for Native American communities.

Following her will be multidisciplinary artists Carolina Caycedo and David De Rozas. They will present on their new body of work examining the issues of land ownership, infrastructure and natural resources in Texas.

Academic Macarena Gómez-Barris will chair the discussion.

The World Around In Focus: Land programme will be accompanied by a commissioned essay by Hoover, and The World Around newsletter subscribers will also have access to films.

The World Around In Focus: Land takes place online on 22 October. See Dezeen Events Guide for an up-to-date list of architecture and design events taking place around the world.

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Holly Jean Buck and Joseph Kunkel to present at The World Around In Focus: Land

Dezeen has teamed up with The World Around to live-stream its In Focus: Land event on 22 October, an afternoon of free online talks exploring the complex post-colonial issues of land use in the 21st century.

Environmental social scientist Holly Jean Buck and MASS Design Group principal Joseph Kunkel are among the speakers scheduled for The World Around In Focus: Land.

The event will bring together artists, activists and practitioners from around the world across three themed sessions as part of The World Around's year in residence at Guggenheim Museum.

Event to explore the "infrastructures and systems that shape our lives"

The free online public programme is the latest event by The World Around – a non-profit organisation founded in 2020 by Beatrice Galilee with the aim to deepen architectural discourse.

With The World Around in Focus: Land, the organisation says it will "share the compelling and important stories of artists, researchers, designers, scientists and architects whose work explores the agency of infrastructures and systems that shape our lives and deplete natural resources".

The World Around's previous events include January's 2021 summit, also live-streamed on Dezeen, and an Earth Day symposium held as part of Dezeen's Virtual Design Festival.

The October 22 forum will be the first in a series of "In Focus" events focused on contemporary post-colonial land-use issues and aimed at building a more equitable future.

[

Read:

David Adjaye, Ryue Nishizawa and Sumayya Vally to present at The World Around's virtual summit

](https://www.dezeen.com/2021/01/22/the-world-around-summit-2021/)

The talks will unfold across three sessions – titled Community, Technology and Ecology – and will be followed by discussion.

The World Around In Focus: Land will be live-streamed on Dezeen on Friday October 22 from 6:00pm to 9:00pm London time (1:00pm to 4:00pm New York Time), as well as the Guggenheim Museum's YouTube channel.

The World Around has been in residence at the museum throughout 2021, with the October 22 event marking the last of the activities programmed under its auspices.

Read on for the full line-up and register to take part on the day.

Renee Kemp-Rotan will present her Africatown International Design Idea Competition project

Community

The first session will feature designer and educator Kunkel, who is a citizen of the Northern Cheyenne Nation Kunkel and a principal at MASS Design Group, where he directs the Sustainable Native Communities Design Lab. He will speak about integrating and lifting indigenous voices into community design projects.

He will be followed by urban planner Renee Kemp-Rotan, who is the first African American woman to graduate from Syracuse University with a Bachelor of Architecture. She will share the story of her current project, the Africatown International Design Idea Competition, which will create an Africatown Cultural Mile to mark the first African settlement in the US in Mobile, Alabama.

This session will be moderated by architect Emanuel Admassu.

Simon Denny will present his work that explores how technologists view land

Technology

Artist Simon Denny will start the next session. Denny's art, including the recent exhibitions Mine and Proof of Stake, interrogates the way technologists frame land-use issues, including around mineral extraction and labour practices.

Speaking next will be environmental social scientist and geographer Buck, whose recent book After Geoengineering laid out the progressive case for geoengineering. She will speak about how emerging technologies can help build a regenerative society.

This session will be moderated by curator Dani Admiss.

Elizabeth Hoover will present work focusing on Native American food sovereignty

Ecology

The final session will start with anthropologist Elizabeth Hoover, who is an associate professor in Environmental Science, Policy and Management at UC Berkeley. She will speak about her work on food sovereignty and environmental justice for Native American communities.

Following her will be multidisciplinary artists Carolina Caycedo and David De Rozas. They will present on their new body of work examining the issues of land ownership, infrastructure and natural resources in Texas.

Academic Macarena Gómez-Barris will chair the discussion.

The World Around In Focus: Land programme will be accompanied by a commissioned essay by Hoover, and The World Around newsletter subscribers will also have access to films.

The World Around In Focus: Land takes place online on 22 October. See Dezeen Events Guide for an up-to-date list of architecture and design events taking place around the world.

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This article was written for The World Awround as part of a partnership. Find out more about Dezeen's partnership contenthere.

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