The World Around Summit

The World Around announces that its Summit 2025 will take place at The Museum of Modern Art in New York City on April 27, 2025. The event is organized with MoMA’s Emilio Ambasz Institute.

The World Around Summit 2025 will take place Sunday, April 27, at New York's Museum of Art. Featuring insightful presentations and discussions from figures at the forefront of Architecture's Now, Near & Next, the full-day program will spotlight some of the most impactful projects and innovative, actionable ideas from the past year across the fields of architecture, design, and the environment.

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As part of The World Around’s ongoing global cultural partnership with Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Summit 2025 will feature a conversation moderated by Béatrice Grenier, the Fondation’s director of strategic projects.

“In the last decade the Museum has emerged as an essential site for architectural experimentation, and the exhibition the place to rethink the city.”
Béatrice Grenier, Strategic and International Projects Director, Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain.

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Confirmed speakers include:

- Douglas Cardinal, Architect (Ottawa, Canada)
- Alejandra Castrodad-Rodríguez, Executive Director, Resilient Power Puerto Rico (San Juan, Puerto Rico)
- Chatpong Chuenrudeemol, Director, CHAT Architects (Bangkok, Thailand)
- Chris Cornelius, Founding Principal, studio:indigenous (Albuquerque, USA)
- Béatrice Grenier, Director of Strategic Projects, Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain
- Anne Holtrop, Founder, Studio Anne Holtrop (Muharraq, Bahrain)
- Jung Youngsun, Landscape Architect (Seoul, South Korea)
- Josh Kline, Artist (New York, USA)
- Daryan Knoblauch, Director, Daryan Knoblauch Studio (Berlin, Germany)
- Alina Kolar, Campaign Manager, HouseEurope! (Berlin, Germany)
- Nzinga B. Mboup, Curator and Co-Founder, Worofi la (Dakar, Senegal)
- Salima Naji, Founder, atelier Salima Naji (Rabat, Morocco)
- Vyjayanthi Rao, Anthropologist and Kush Badhwar, Artist; Directors of Beneath the Placid Lake (Mumbai, India)
- Mauricio Rocha, Founder, Taller de Arquitectura (Mexico City, Mexico)
- Zoë Schlanger, Journalist and Author of ‘The Light Eaters’ (New York, USA)

The World Around Annual Summit 2025 is curated with the Emilio Ambasz Institute for the Joint Study of the Built and the Natural Environment at MoMA. Since 2023, The World Around is supported by its Global Cultural Partner the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, which is dedicated to promoting and raising public awareness of contemporary art. The World Around programming in 2025 is supported by the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts. MillerKnoll is Official Design Partner for Young Climate Prize Cycle 02.

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