Collaborating with the Ambasz Institute at MoMA, The World Around presented Architecture’s Now, Near & Next, uniting global visionaries and the second edition of the Young Climate Prize.

The fifth annual The World Around Summit explored the philosophy of homes and housing, the planetary resilience of landscape architecture and the unexpected architecture of skateboarding.

The World Around's 2023 summit was held on Earth Day and featured the inaugural Young Climate Prize award winners as well as a global panoply of inspiring speakers.

The World Around joins forces with New York's Guggenheim and Rotterdam's Nieuwe Instituut for this special summit bringing together architecture's now, near and next for a hybrid program.

In the midst of the 2021 global Covid-19 lockdown, The World Around collaborated with the Guggenheim to gather inspiring stories from global architects, all recorded remotely and streamed online.

On Jan 25, 2020, The World Around held its inaugural Summit at the TimesCenter, with global voices from architecture & beyond, featuring Junya Ishigami, Bruce Mau, Liz Diller & more.

A series of live talks focused on the future of landscape architecture and design, conceived and co-curated by The World Around and Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain.

A program of talks presented by The World Around & Future Observatory at the Design Museum, investigating the role of research in culture today

Examining the possibility of an architecture of repair, from urbanism, grafting to indigenous identiies. Co-curated with Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain

In an increasingly precarious world, what can architecture and design do to mitigate the effects of global catastrophes?

Intersecting perspectives on the relationship between land and design in the US were explored in three sessions: community, technology, and ecology.