In partnership with The World Around, Dezeen is broadcasting a programme of live talks featuring Ryue Nishizawa, Liam Young, Alice Rawsthorn and more. You can watch the first part above.
The first instalment of the day-long summit, which is being streamed on Dezeen in three parts, featured a diverse range of practitioners who each use storytelling to decipher current global crises.
Ryue Nishizawa's House in Los Vilos, Chile
"Using words, drawings, interviews, cinema and imagination, [storytellers] mobilise and make visible complex realities and teach, test or prototype more optimistic possible futures," said Beatrice Galilee, founder and curator of The World Around.
"Through their extraordinary and varied practices, this group of leaders and visionaries show that creating tales and fabulations is not a playful distraction, but a fundamental design tool," she said. The summit marks the launch of The World Around's year-long residency at the Guggenheim museum.

The day of talks kicked off with a brief introduction by Galilee and Guggenheim museum's director Richard Armstrong. Deputy director Cyra Levenson also joined them.
The first presentation of the day was given by design critic Alice Rawsthorn, who discussed Design Emergency, a research collaboration with curator Paola Antonelli. Design Emergency explores design's role in creating a better future and its response to the coronavirus pandemic.
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