The World Around - SUMMIT 2024

The World Around’s Annual Summit will take place at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York on May 11, 2024. The daylong summit, now in its fifth edition, featured leading figures in architecture, design, and other creative fields including MAD Architects founder Ma Yansong, MASS Design Group’s Joe Christa Giraso, and Lucas Museum of Narrative Art director Sandra Jackson-Dumont.

The series of talks and panel discussions encompassed a year of architecture in one day,
spotlighting impactful projects and ideas from the past twelve months. Curated by The World Around’s executive director, Beatrice Galilee, the speakers will represent the now, near, and next of architecture, and share new and under-construction projects, research, ideas, and innovations.

The talks and presentations were intended to amplify urgent and critical topics that architects and other creatives are facing today, as well as advance thoughts and actions in, and around, the discipline of architecture. For this year’s edition, one panel was presented and co-curated together with Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain’s Béatrice Grenier. For the fourth consecutive year, The World Around’s Annual Summit was presented in partnership with the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Their collaborative programming partnership began in 2021, when The World Around was in residence at the museum.

The World Around Annual Summit 2024 is co-presented by The World Around and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. 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, and the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts.

SUMMIT 2024 SCHEDULE:
SESSION 1: AN EXAMINED WORLD
00:01:22 Welcome: Cyra Levenson, Guggenheim Museum
00:07:14 Introduction: Beatrice Galilee, The World Around
00:13:22 Neri&Hu, RE:
00:28:13 Studio Barnes, Watch the Tone
00:41:23 ARB Vietnam, Đạo Mẫu Museum and Temple
00:59:14 Ernesto Picco, Lithium Chronicles
01:06:00 Mae-ling Lokko, The World Around with Coconuts
01:21:37 SO - IL, In depth
01:37:16 Emanuele Coccia, Homes: How to Design our Moral Topography?

SESSION 2: A FLUID TERRITORY
02:01:06 Jakob Kudsk Steensen, The Ephemeral Lake
02:06:00 SUB, Manticore
02:26:52 Alexis Sablone, Skatescape: under-explored terrain
02:45:37 SP+A, Looking for Context
03:04:17 In Conversation:
Sandra Jackson-Dumont, The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art
Ma Yansong, MAD Architects
Moderated by: Asima Jansveld

SESSION 3: A PLANETARY LANDSCAPE
03:48:42 In Conversation:
Kongjian Yu, Turenscape
Joe Christa Giraso, MASS Design Group
Lisa Switkin, Field Operations
Moderated by:
Beatrice Galilee, The World Around
Béatrice Grenier, Fondation Cartier pour l´art contemporain

About The World Around
The World Around is a nonprofit organization founded in New York City in 2020 by Beatrice Galilee and Diego Marroquin. The platform is focused on connecting, empowering, and amplifying voices and ideas in global architecture that address the challenges of our time. With a commitment to social and ecological justice, the organization collaborates with international institutions to curate and commission conferences, events, and climate initiatives including its Annual Summit, itinerant In Focus programs and Young Climate Prize.

About the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation was established in 1937 and is dedicated to
promoting the understanding and appreciation of modern and contemporary art through
exhibitions, education programs, research initiatives, and publications. The international
constellation of museums includes the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice; the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao; and the future Guggenheim Abu Dhabi. An architectural icon and “temple of spirit” where radical art and architecture meet, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum is now among a group of eight Frank Lloyd Wright structures in the United States recently designated as a UNESCO World Heritage site. To learn more about the museum and the Guggenheim’s activities around the world, visit guggenheim.org.

About Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain
For nearly forty years, the Fondation Cartier has maintained a commitment to championing the work of groundbreaking thinkers in and around architecture and design from around the world with the critical presentation of projects, exhibitions, lectures and programs with practitioners such as Junya Ishigami, Jean Nouvel, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Alessandro Mendini, Formafantasma as well Solano Benitez and Gloria Cabral, Freddy Mamani, Mauricio Rocha, and the architect Bijoy Jain (currently on show at the Fondation Cartier Paris venue until April 21, 2024).