The World Around Summit 2025

The World Around Summit is an all-day, annual convening of Architecture’s Now, Near & Next, with an all-star roster of the boldest and best projects taking place in global contemporary architecture, design, ecology and the environment over the last year.

Summit 2025 will be held on April 27 at New York’s MoMA, curated by The World Around’s founder and director Beatrice Galilee, and Carson Chan, director of Emilio Ambasz Institute for the Joint Study of the Built and the Natural Environment at MoMA.

Culminating the events of Earth Week, the program will also include the award ceremony of The World Around Young Climate Prize, featuring four of this year’s winners discussing and presenting powerful projects transforming lives in communities at the frontlines of the climate crisis.

The World Around is a 501c3 nonprofit organization, and pay-as-you-wish tickets are made possible thanks to the generous donations of The World Around partners and members of The World Around Circles. Please consider making a donation and join The World Around's global community if you are able. 

Speakers include: 

Douglas Cardinal, Architect (Ottawa, Canada)

Elizabeth Diller, Architect (New York, USA)

Alejandra Castrodad-Rodríguez, Designer, ilumiNACIÓN (San Juan, Puerto Rico)

Chatpong Chuenrudeemol, Director, CHAT Architects (Bangkok, Thailand)

Chris Cornelius, Founding Principal, studio:indigenous (Albuquerque, USA)

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, Worofila (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)