In Focus: Transformation

We invite you to join The World Around in Los Angeles for In Focus: Transformation, curated with the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain and presented by the Hammer Museum. 

This latest edition of The World Around’s acclaimed thematic program series spotlights visionary architects and designers who are shaping a more sustainable future. As landscapes are scorched, coastlines eroded, and communities displaced in a world warming as a result of human activity, the built environment becomes a critical site of response. This program examines how designers, thinkers, and artists confront a world in flux—ecological, social, and political. Through inspiring talks and conversations, global leaders in architecture and design will share innovative approaches to urgent climate challenges, from urban flooding to nature loss.

In Focus: Transformation positions design as a medium of positive change: a tool to respond to trauma, restore landscapes, resist extraction, serve the vulnerable, and imagine more equitable ways of inhabiting the planet. In a time of compounding uncertainty, the series invites discussion on the landscape of momentous change before us, and how designers can claim agency within it.

Tickets

General admission tickets for this event are now sold out, but we still have a limited number of priority access tickets available for The World Around Circles members. Join our Circles today if you’d like to attend in person. For those who can’t make it, the full program recording will be made available free on our website in the coming weeks. Sign up for our newsletter to receive updates on this and future programs from The World Around.

In Focus: Transformation Speakers

Alice Bucknell, LA
Al Borde, Quito
Ximena Caminos, The Reefline, Miami  
Teddy Cruz & Fonna Forman, Estudio Teddy Cruz + Fonna Forman, San Diego / Tijuana 
Walter Hood, Hood Design Studio, Oakland  
Kotchakorn Voraakhom, LandProcess, Bangkok 
Patricia Urquiola, Milan, Italy
Julia Watson, New York 
Kulapat Yantrasast, WHY, LA
Sharon Johnston, Johnston Marklee, LA   
Michael Maltzan, Michael Maltzan Architecture, LA  

+ Young Climate Stories from Sahrawi Refugee Camp, Algeria; Ururu, Bolivia, and Lagos, Nigeria 

Curators & Organizers

Beatrice Galilee, The World Around 
Béatrice Grenier, Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain 
Zoë Ryan, The Hammer Museum