About Summit 2026

The World Around proudly collaborated with the Department of Architecture & Design at The Museum of Modern Art to present its annual Summit, a flagship convening dedicated to the now, near, and next of contemporary architecture and design. The Summit has become a vital international platform, bringing together architects, designers, artists, thinkers, researchers, and community leaders from across geographies and disciplines. Together, they share urgent ideas, emerging practices, and built work that meaningfully expands the field’s social, cultural, and ecological impact.

Through a dynamic program of keynote talks, short presentations, and cross-disciplinary conversations, the Summit is a year of architecture in a day; a space for exchange across scales and contexts. The program highlights new modes of making, partnering, and organizing, with a focus on practices that challenge extractive systems and propose more just and resilient ways of living. Across the day, speakers and participants explore questions of equitable futures, climate intelligence, and cultural imagination, engaging projects that range from objects and materials to buildings, landscapes, and cities.