The World Around Summit 2022
On Saturday 5 February 2022, Het Nieuwe Instituut co-organised The World Around Summit 2022, a joint production in cooperation with the international design platform The World Around and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. The 'now, near and next' of the contemporary architecture and design field presented recent work in a day-long programme: some of the past year's most high-profile projects on the intersection of architecture, spatial design, ecology and social issues. The summit took place in the Guggenheim and could be followed worldwide via a free livestream. The contributions can be watched, read and listened to online.
See below documentation of the three sessions broadcast from the Guggenheim on 5 February 2022, with live contributions, pre-recorded videos and introductions by the directors of The World Around, Het Nieuwe Instituut and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Please visit the website of The World Around for more background information on all the speakers and their contributions. Download a pdf of the conference programme below, with short descriptions of each session and biographies of all the speakers.
Schools, Sneakers, Stories and Other Agents of Change
Session One, introduced by Beatrice Galilee (The World Around)
Discover new ways of thinking about the future that catalyse change in communities. From new businesses that give work to immigrants in Barcelona, to a digital platform that empowers people without homes in London, to a forum for architectural education in Accra, these projects embody design as transformative social action.
Featuring Lesley Lokko, FormaFantasma, Ursula Biemann, Camila Marambio, Amitav Ghosh & Lucia Pietrousti, Chris Hildrey, Eva Pfannes and Top Manta.
Session 1: Schools, Sneakers, Stories, and Other Agents of Change, introduced by Beatrice Galilee (The World Around)
Ice, Stone, Sand, and Other Archives
Session Two, introduced by Aric Chen (Het Nieuwe Instituut)
Influential creative minds walk us through their recently completed museums, archives and concert halls. These projects investigate architecture's relationship with time. Designers work with historic monuments and displays, contemplating materials formed over millennia. We examine the contradictions, poetry and histories contained within ice, limestone, bricks and concrete.
Featuring Tadao Ando, Design Earth, Himali Singh Soin, Open Architecture, Dominique Petit-Frère, Winy Maas, David Chipperfield and Amie Siegel.
Session 2: Ice, Stone, Sand, and Other Archives, introduced by Aric Chen (Het Nieuwe Instituut)
Trees, Words, Images, and Other Monuments
Session Three, introduced by Cyra Levenson (Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum)
Thinkers, researchers and designers ask what is preserved, and why - and by whom. Can a forest be an architectural monument? Should the world's oldest refugee camp be a world heritage site? In the midst of multiple crises, this session makes clear that the future depends on addressing and amending the mistakes of the past.
Featuring Paul Farber, Paulo Tavares, Sandi Hilal & Alessandro Petti, Miriam Hillawi Abraham, Sebastián López Brach and Matthew Heineman.
Session 3: Trees, Words, Images, and Other Monuments, introduced by Cyra Levenson (Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum)
This project was made possible thanks to:
Gemeente Rotterdam