The World Around

The World Around is a global design conference and media organisation that publishes video presentations and short documentary films under the slogan "Architecture's Now, Near, and Next" covering contemporary ideas and projects in architecture and design. The organisation is a 501c3 registered public charity in the United States, and seeks to "make the best new ideas in architecture accessible to all." The platform has a particular focus on climate change and social justice issues, and hosts the Young Climate Prize, a mentoring scheme for climate change-focused designers between the ages of 13 and 25.

As a conference, The World Around was first hosted in New York City in January 2020, and has since held five further events. The organisation collaborated with the design news website Dezeen on Earth Day 2020 for Dezeen's "Virtual Design Festival". In 2021, the Guggenheim welcomed a yearlong residency for The World Around, hosting the 2021 Summit and "In Focus: Land" virtually. In 2022 the yearly Summit remained at the Guggenheim Museum, in partnership with Het Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam, where June's "In Focus: Precarity" conference was held.