Bacalar Eco-Park Ⓒ Colectivo C733

SATURDAY, MAY 9, 10 AM–5 PM CDT

CLICK HERE to register to attend the in-person live-stream watch party in Chicago at the Graham Foundation

CLICK HERE to buy tickets to attend in-person in New York at The Museum of Modern Art
CLICK HERE to register to live-stream the event

Join us to watch the live-stream of The World Around Summit 2026—a convening of global architecture’s “now, near, and next” at the Graham Foundation. The World Around Summit is a conference featuring luminaries from architecture, design, and beyond presented online and in-person at The Museum of Modern Art in New York. This all-day program co-curated by Beatrice Galilee and Martino Stierli, presents a year of architecture and design in a day, introducing the best of contemporary buildings, and exploring cutting-edge and inspiring new projects and initiatives in landscape, climate intelligence, and design—all through the lens of social and ecological justice. The 2026 World Around Summit is co-presented with The Museum of Modern Art.

An international and interdisciplinary line-up of speakers will present new approaches to landscape and urbanism, material innovation, equitable futures, housing, museums, and community. The World Around’s format of short, singular presentations are intended to share the exciting and extraordinary ways in which architects are addressing the critical topics of our time. As part of the nonprofit’s mission to make its programming accessible to all, the summit will be live-streamed globally.

PARTICIPANTS
Alejandro Aravena (Santiago, Chile), Tatiana Bilbao (Mexico City, Mexico), Gabriela Carrillo (Mexico City, Mexico), Marie Combette (Quito, Ecuador), François-Xavier Gbré (La Rochelle, France / Abidjan, Ivory Coast), Róisín Heneghan (Dublin, Ireland), Mariam Issoufou (New York City), Michael Kimmelman (New York City), Nguyễn Hải Long (Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam), Daniel Moreno Flores (Quito, Ecuador), Trần Thị Ngụ Ngôn (Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam), Piet Oudolf (Hummelo, Netherlands), Søren Pihlmann (Copenhagen, Denmark), Bas Smets (Brussels, Belgium), Peggy Weil (Los Angeles), Sara Zewde (New York City), Mohamed Salem Mohamed Ali (Smara Camp, Tindouf, Algeria)

Founded in 2020, The World Around (TWA) is a global nonprofit platform headquartered in New York, with a simple but ambitious mission: to rethink architecture. Taking the most critical issue of our time—the climate crisis—as the lens to view all of their activities, TWA connects with global institutions to craft unique public conversations that look beyond buildings to investigate the often-invisible forces that shape our homes, cities, landscapes, and lives. The World Around Summit 2026 is co-presented with The Museum of Modern Art.

To learn more about the 2026 Summit and browse past presentations, click here.