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The World Around Summit
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City & Online
February 5
Featuring architecture and design’s now, near, and next, The World Around Summit addresses the need for progressive, global, and interdisciplinary ideas to rethink and reimagine the world as we face a global climate emergency. Conversations on long-term projects and in-process research, artworks, and activism that addresses post-colonial issues of land use and share solutions for an equitable future through raising awareness of infrastructures and systems that deplete resources across the Americas. Speakers include artists, researchers, designers, and architects ranging from Lesley Lokko, co-founder of the African Futures Institute, author Amitav Ghosh in conversion with General Ecology founder Lucia Pietroiusti, Senegalese collective Top Manta, Sandi Hilal and Alessandro Petti of DAAR (Decolonizing Architecture Art Research), and more.
Justice is Beauty: The Work of MASS Design Group
National Building Museum, Washington, D.C.
Through September 2022
This exhibit highlights the work of the award-winning MASS Design Group, a world-renowned nonprofit architecture firm whose philosophy that architecture is never neutral—it either heals or hurts—and belief that improving people’s lives through design demands more than a building; it requires long-term engagement with clients and communities. MASS Design has paved the way in designing health structures to manage disease outbreaks such as tuberculosis, cholera, and Ebola, as well as schools, food-conservation labs, designs for urban spaces, and memorials to commemorate civil injustices such as the firms first major U.S. project, the National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, AL, commemorates more than 4,000 victims of racially motivated lynching. (Below)
