RIBA Royal Gold Medal award was "brave move" says Yasmeen Lari
Pakistani architect Yasmeen Lari has said the RIBA was "brave" to award her the Royal Gold Medal earlier this year. More
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Watch The World Around's In Focus: Radical Repair live at Triennale Milano
Dezeen has teamed up with The World Around to stream its In Focus: Radical Repair event, where designers will reflect on architecture's responsibility over the climatic crisis. Watch it live here from 6:00pm to 9:00pm Milan time. More
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Watch The World Around 2023 summit live
Dezeen has teamed up with The World Around to stream its 2023 summit, which features talks by Nigerian architect Tosin Oshinowo, artist Es Devlin and design critic Alice Rawsthorn. Watch it live here from midday New York time. More
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The World Around names four winners of inaugural Young Climate Prize
Non-profit The World Around has selected Pamela Elizarrarás Acitores, Foday David Kamara, Namra Khalid and Aziba Ekio as the winners of its Young Climate Prize. More
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The World Around announces 25 finalists in its Young Climate Prize mentorship initiative
Non-profit architecture forum The World Around has announced the 25 finalists of its Young Climate Prize, which celebrates young creatives who have developed projects that address and mitigate the impact of climate change. More
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The World Around launches Young Climate Prize mentorship initiative
Architecture forum The World Around has launched an initiative that will pair 25 under 25-year-olds with mentors including architects Sumayya Vally, Frida Escobedo and Tatiana Bilbao. More
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Watch part three of The World Around 2022 featuring Monument Lab and Miriam Hillawi Abraham
Dezeen teamed up with The World Around to live-stream its 2022 summit. Watch the third session above, which featured talks with Monument Lab and designer Miriam Hillawi Abraham. More
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Watch part two of The World Around 2022 featuring Tadao Ando, Open Architecture and Aric Chen
Dezeen teamed up with The World Around to live-stream its 2022 summit. Watch the second session above, which featured talks by curator Aric Chen, architect Tadao Ando and Chinese studio Open Architecture. More
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Watch part one of The World Around 2022 featuring Lesley Lokko and Formafantasma
Dezeen teamed up with The World Around to live-stream its 2022 summit. Watch the first session above, which included talks by curator Lesley Lokko and design studio Formafantasma. More
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Tadao Ando and Open Architecture to take part in The World Around Summit 2022
Pritzker Prize-winning architect Tadao Ando, Chinese studio Open Architecture and Italian design studio Formafantasma are among the speakers at The World Around Summit 2022, a day of talks that Dezeen is live streaming on 5 February. More
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The World Around "speaks about design as current affairs" says Beatrice Galilee
Dezeen has teamed up with The World Around to live-stream its 2022 summit on 5 February. Ahead of the conference, founder Beatrice Galilee explains the summit's focus and forecasts the changes she expects to see in the design industry this year. More
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Watch The World Around In Focus: Land talks
Environmental social scientist Holly Jean Buck and MASS Design Group principal Joseph Kunkel were among the speakers that participated in The World Around In Focus: Land, an afternoon of talks exploring contemporary post-colonial land-use issues. Watch the online event here. More
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Holly Jean Buck and Joseph Kunkel to present at The World Around In Focus: Land
Dezeen has teamed up with The World Around to live-stream its In Focus: Land event on 22 October, an afternoon of free online talks exploring the complex post-colonial issues of land use in the 21st century. More
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Final instalment of The World Around virtual summit focussed on the US
David Adjaye, SO-IL and BlackSpace Urbanist Collective were among the speakers who presented in the final part of The World Around summit, which was broadcast live on Dezeen. Watch the event above. More
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Panelists discussed land in part two of The World Around summit
The second instalment of The World Around's three-part summit included conversations with architects Francis Kéré, Counterspace, Cave Bureau and more. Watch the event above. More
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First instalment of The World Around virtual summit featured talks on storytelling
In partnership with The World Around, Dezeen broadcast a programme of live talks featuring Ryue Nishizawa, Liam Young, Alice Rawsthorn and more. You can watch the first part above. More
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David Adjaye, Ryue Nishizawa and Sumayya Vally to present at The World Around's virtual summit
Twenty architects, designers and filmmakers from 14 cities around the globe will take part in The World Around's 2021 summit, a day of virtual talks that will be live-streamed on Dezeen on 30 January. More
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Andrés Jaque and Ivan Munuera premiere film exploring the visual landscape of Covid-19
Our VDF collaboration with The World Around concludes with the premiere of a new film by Andrés Jaque and Ivan Munuera, which charts the global impact of coronavirus across a wide range of different scales. More
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Cameron Sinclair and Facebook's Margaret Stewart feature in the third instalment of The World Around symposium
Architect Cameron Sinclair and vegan fashion designer Mats Rombaut are joined by Facebook's director of product design Margaret Stewart in the third part of our Virtual Design Festival collaboration with The World Around for Earth Day. More
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"It's hard to yearn for a return to a pre-pandemic normal" says Design Earth
El Hadi Jazairy and Rania Ghosn of collaborative architecture practice Design Earth discuss how to engage with the climate emergency in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic in this interview with architecture writer Carson Chan, which forms part of our Virtual Design Festival collaboration with The World Around for Earth Day. More
