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Young Climate Stories

Bruce Mau & Covalence Global
Young Climate Prize
·
8 months ago

Bruce Mau & Covalence Global

Climate Action
Design
Community
Henk Ovink & Namra Khalid
Young Climate Prize
·
8 months ago

Henk Ovink & Namra Khalid

Climate Action
Water
Paola Antonelli & Alfonse Chiu
Young Climate Prize
·
8 months ago

Paola Antonelli & Alfonse Chiu

Climate Action
Research
Jon Marshall & Stanley Anigbogu
Young Climate Prize
·
8 months ago

Jon Marshall & Stanley Anigbogu

Climate Action
Design

Indigenous Knowledge

Chaki Wasi Handicrafts Center
Summit 2026
·
22 days ago

Chaki Wasi Handicrafts Center

Architecture
Heritage
Indigenous Knowledge
Summit 2026
·
22 days ago

Summit 2026 Replay

Architecture
Indigenous Knowledge
Design
Materials
Yuyarina Pacha Community Library.
In Focus
·
3 months ago

Building from Within

Architecture
Community
Indigenous Knowledge
Design in the Pyrocene
In Focus
·
3 months ago

Design in the Pyrocene

Architecture
Indigenous Knowledge
Urbanism
Ye-chan Floating Islands of the Intha, Myanmar.
In Focus
·
3 months ago

Lo—TEK Water

Indigenous Knowledge
Urbanism
Water
An image of a tree with both branches and roots visible against a black background.
Summit 2022
·
4 years ago

Forest Mind

Ecology
Indigenous Knowledge
Forests
Film
Education
Summit 2022
·
4 years ago

Cambio

Indigenous Knowledge
Design
Forests
Trees, Palms, Vines and Other Architectural Monuments
Summit 2022
·
4 years ago

Trees, Palms, Vines and Other Architectural Monuments

Indigenous Knowledge
Social Justice
Architecture
Forests
Camila Marambio speaking at The World Around Summit 2022.
Summit 2022
·
4 years ago

Turba Tol Hol-Hol Tol

Landscape
Ecology
Conservation
Indigenous Knowledge
The House of Thought, a large woven palm structure, emerges from the trees of a forest.
Summit 2023
·
8 months ago

Organizmo

Architecture
Indigenous Knowledge
Community
Ecology
Lo-Tek
Summit 2020
·
6 years ago

Lo-Tek

Indigenous Knowledge
Landscape
Research
Ecology
Traditional Housing in Mexico
Summit 2021
·
8 months ago

Traditional Housing in Mexico

Indigenous Knowledge
Summit 2021
·
5 years ago

The More than Human Anthropocene

Indigenous Knowledge
Conservation
More-than-Human
Storytelling
National Assembly of Benin
Summit 2021
·
5 years ago

National Assembly of Benin

Indigenous Knowledge
Architecture
Materials
Community
Summit 2021
·
5 years ago

WETLAND

Materials
Architecture
Indigenous Knowledge
Future
Museums
Research
Social Change
The Virtual Girjegumpi
Summit 2021
·
5 years ago

The Virtual Girjegumpi

Indigenous Knowledge
Architecture
Activism
Research
Museums
Design
Social Change
The Anthropocene Museum
Summit 2021
·
5 years ago

The Anthropocene Museum

Indigenous Knowledge
Architecture
Museums
Activism
Conflict
Summit 2021
·
5 years ago

Ya No Estoy Aquí

Indigenous Knowledge
Film
Storytelling
A boy in traditional Bolivian dress and a princes cloak walks towards women with roses at the end of their braids in a still from Warawar Wawa.
Summit 2023
·
3 years ago

Warawar Wawa

Film
Storytelling
Indigenous Knowledge
Joseph Kunkel speaks to camera from his studio in a still from the Sustainable Native Communities video.
Land
·
4 years ago

Sustainable Native Communities Lab

Community
Indigenous Knowledge
Climate Action

Storytelling

A grey haze drifts toward a distant city at sunset in a still from The First Wave by Matthew Heineman
Summit 2022
·
4 years ago

Matthew Heineman: The First Wave

Covid-19
Film
Storytelling
Render image of a square section of land floating above a red landscape.
Summit 2022
·
4 years ago

Abyssinian Cyber-Vernaculus

Colonialism
Game Design
Storytelling
Illustration of planet Earth with a human head wearing a space-age helmet emerging from the top and satellite-like forms in orbit around it.
Summit 2022
·
4 years ago

The Planet after Geoengineering

Architecture
Technology
Ecology
Storytelling
Amitav Ghosh rests his head against his hand in front of a green background.
Summit 2022
·
4 years ago

Amitav Ghosh in Conversation with Lucia Pietroiusti

Literature
Colonialism
Ecology
Storytelling
Lesley Lokko speaking at The World Around Summit 2022.
Summit 2022
·
4 years ago

African Futures Institute

Architecture
Colonialism
Social Justice
Storytelling
A person cloaked in a reflective heat blanket runs past a ramshackle warehouse in a still from Himali Singh Soin's film We Are Opposite Like That.
Summit 2022
·
4 years ago

We are opposite like that

More-than-Human
Art
Storytelling
Fernando Laposse speaking at The World Around Summit 2023.
Summit 2023
·
3 years ago

Conflict Avocados

Food
Activism
Storytelling
Design
Young Climate Prize Award Ceremony
Summit 2023
·
3 years ago

Young Climate Prize Award Ceremony

Climate Action
Conservation
Ecology
Storytelling
Architecture
The Manuals
Summit 2020
·
6 years ago

The Manuals

Climate Action
Storytelling
Design
Summit 2021
·
5 years ago

The More than Human Anthropocene

Indigenous Knowledge
Conservation
More-than-Human
Storytelling
The Impossible Future
Summit 2021
·
5 years ago

The Impossible Future

Storytelling
Climate Action
Animation
Activism
Art
Planet City: A City for 10 Billion People
Summit 2021
·
5 years ago

Planet City: A City for 10 Billion People

Storytelling
Future
Ecology
More-than-Human
Urbanism
Summit 2021
·
5 years ago

Ya No Estoy Aquí

Indigenous Knowledge
Film
Storytelling
A boy in traditional Bolivian dress and a princes cloak walks towards women with roses at the end of their braids in a still from Warawar Wawa.
Summit 2023
·
3 years ago

Warawar Wawa

Film
Storytelling
Indigenous Knowledge
Es Devlin adds details to a drawing of a bird as part of her large-scale Come Home Again installation.
Summit 2023
·
3 years ago

Come Home Again

Art
Exhibitions
Biodiversity
Storytelling
Liam Young chairing a conversation with John Paino and Lucia Pietroiusti at The World Around Summit 2023.
Summit 2023
·
3 years ago

Liam Young in Conversation with John Paino and Lucia Pietroiusti

Storytelling
Future
Game Design
Film
Ecology
Apichatpong Weerastethakul in profile. The sun sets behind buildings in the background.
Earth Day 2020
·
6 years ago

Apichatpong Weerastethakul In conversation with Andrea Lissoni

Film
Storytelling
Art
A green bird on a wooden perch against a black background.
Earth Day 2020
·
6 years ago

Studio Ossidiana In Conversation with Mariana Pestana

More-than-Human
Design
Storytelling
Balenciaga New Bond Street store by Sub
Summit 2024
·
2 years ago

Manticore

Architecture
Fashion
Art
Design
Storytelling
A line of wooden ships with fishing nets in the foreground on a beach in Keta, Ghana.
Young Climate Prize
·
1 year ago

Mapping Keta

Language
Storytelling
Climate Action
Young Climate Prize

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Summit 2026May 09, 2026MOMA, NYC

Angsila Oyster Scaffolding

Summit 2025April 27, 2025MoMA, NYC

Đạo Mẫu Museum by ARB Architects

Summit 2024May 11, 2024Guggenheim, NYC

The multicolored entrance facade of the Reggio School by Andrés Jaque / Office for Political Innovation

Summit 2023April 23, 2023Guggenheim, NYC

A concrete building with rough-hewn walls lit from within with a golden light against a background of forest-covered mountains.

Summit 2022February 05, 2022Guggenheim, NYC

Summit 2021

Summit 2021March 27, 2025Guggenheim, NYC

Summit 2020

Summit 2020January 25, 2020TimesCenter, NYC

In Focus

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In Focus: Transformation

In Focus: TransformationFebruary 21, 2026Los Angeles

Choru Visitor Center, a square building nestled in a valley.

In Focus: LandscapesDecember 07, 2024Shanghai

Illustration of Jakarta, Indonesia, showing the locations of toxic matter and entangled social and environmental injustices in the city's water bodies.

In Focus: ResearchMarch 16, 2024London

Freddy Mamani Neo Andina.

In Focus: Radical RepairSeptember 28, 2023Milan

Three people ride elephants across the Elephant Center by Boonserm Premthada.

In Focus: PrecarityJune 11, 2022Rotterdam

Bloom Boom collage graphic.

In Focus: LandOctober 21, 2021New York City

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