Dezeen promotion: in our latest competition, we've partnered with architecture forum The World Around to give away two tickets to its conference taking place for the first time in January 2020.
Curated by Beatrice Galilee, the inaugural conference will take place on Saturday 25 January 2020 at The Times Centre in New York designed by Renzo Piano.
The World Around was developed as a continuation of Galilee's symposium Our Time: A Year of Architecture in a Day, which she organised in 2016, 2017 and 2019, while the first curator of architecture and design at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
One winner and their guest will attend the day-long event, which includes a series of talks from 20 speakers covering disciplines such as art, film, game design and architecture. Art Biotop by Junya Ishigami Architects
Leading industry figures, including co-founder of Diller Scofidio + Renfro Elizabeth Diller, MoMA's senior curator of architecture and design Paola Antonelli, architect Junya Ishigami and Architectural Association director Eva Franch i Gilabert will join discussions focusing around the day's three themes: Now, Near and Next.
The conference will explore 10 of this year's most significant projects, places and exhibitions for the theme of Now. The day will continue by looking at how the ideas of architects, designers, and thinkers could shape the evolution of cities in Near.
The third part of the day, Next, will review worldwide architectural projects and initiatives proposed b...