Bacalar Eco-Park Ⓒ Colectivo C733

SATURDAY, MAY 9, 10 AM–5 PM CDT

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Join us at the Graham Foundation to watch the livestream of The World Around Summit 2026, taking place live at The Museum of Modern Art in New York. Co-curated by Beatrice Galilee and Martino Stierli, this all-day program convenes leading voices from architecture, design, and related fields to survey a year of architecture and design in a single day. Speakers present contemporary buildings alongside new projects and initiatives in landscape, climate intelligence, and design, with a focus on social and ecological justice. The 2026 World Around Summit is co-presented with The Museum of Modern Art.

An international and interdisciplinary lineup explores landscape and urbanism, material innovation, equitable futures, housing, museums, and community through The World Around’s signature format of short presentations. As part of the nonprofit’s mission to make its programming accessible to all, the summit is livestreamed 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.