The World Around’s 2027 Summit is a free, live-streamed public conference that brings together the now, the near, and the next of contemporary architecture. The summit presents recently completed and underconstruction projects from around the world through concise, accessible talks, often providing the first public platform for significant new work and creating a unique record of architecture as it is being made. Featured projects address some of the most urgent environmental and social challenges facing the built environment, including climate adaptation, ecological stewardship, housing, equity, and cultural preservation. Through presentations, panel discussions, and originally produced documentary-quality films, the Summit elevates both emerging and established voices while creating a platform for exchange across generations, geographies, and disciplines. The 2027 program includes three winners of the Young Climate Prize, bringing visionary climate leadership from a new generation of designers, activists, and changemakers into conversation with established voices in architecture. Now in its eighth edition, the Summit expands public understanding of architecture’s role in advancing more equitable and sustainable ways of living. Recorded and made freely available online, it serves as a living archive of contemporary architectural history.

Beatrice Galilee, executive director of The World Around (TWA), is a curator, critic, and cultural consultant specializing in contemporary architecture and design. Galilee oversees TWA’s artistic program and leads all organizational strategy. She is internationally recognized for her experience in curating, designing, and conceiving original and dynamic citywide biennales, museum exhibitions, installations, conferences, events, and publications, bringing together the world’s leading institutions with cutting-edge practitioners. Prior to founding TWA, she was the first curator of contemporary architecture and design at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, where she organized rooftop exhibitions and installations, and public programs of contemporary architecture, art, photography, film, and design, launched In Our Time: A Year of Architecture in a Day, as well as acquisitions and collections research from 2014 to 2019.

Satomi Blair, executive producer of The World Around, has overseen all of TWA’s Summits and In Focus events. Blair is an actor, producer, and founder of 4Hawk Productions, an award-winning independent documentary production company committed to telling diverse stories about creative artists, makers, and activists. Blair produces all videos for TWA’s events and global platform. Films under Blair’s creative leadership have been featured at Tribeca Film Festival, DOC NYC, Anchorage International Film Festival (Jury Award Winner), Miami Short Film Festival (winner, Best Documentary Film), Houston Cinema Arts Society/NASA CineSpace (finalist), DocuWest, Chagrin Documentary Film Festival, Miami International Science Film Festival (winner, Best Micro-Doc). She is an alumna of The Women's Media Center Progressive Women’s Voices, and proud member of SAG-AFTRA and Actors’ Equity Association.

Founded in 2020, The World Around (TWA) is a global nonprofit platform headquartered in New York, with a simple but ambitious mission: to rethink architecture. Taking the most critical issue of our time—the climate crisis—as the lens through which it views all of its activities, TWA connects with global institutions to craft unique and accessible public conversations that look beyond buildings to investigate the often invisible forces that shape our homes, cities, landscapes, and lives.