8 May

The World Around on Site: Venice

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The World Around & SMAC Present: The World Around On Site: Venice 

The World Around, the leading curatorial platform for global architecture, and SMAC will be on site on the occasion of the vernissage days of the 19th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia with an open-to-all breakfast roundable event, sharing hot takes and early insights into this year’s edition of the seminal architecture exhibition and global convening.

Bringing together the Biennale’s most exciting contributors and observers, the early-morning conversation, including coffee and light breakfast, will include an animated discussion, offering insider takes on the show ahead of its official opening to map the most critical ideas in global architecture and design today.

The World Around On Site: Venice will take place Thursday, May 8, at, Procuratie in Piazza San Marco, which houses SMAC on the second floor and The Home of the Human Safety Net on the third floor. The event will be hosted at the Auditorium of the Human Safety Net on the third floor. Doors will open at 8:30am for coffee & breakfast with the discussion starting at 9:00am and concluding with an audience Q&A. Seats at the venue are limited and allocated on a first-come, first-served basis. The event will be followed by a curator-led tour of SMAC’s exhibitions “Migrating Modernism: The Architecture of Harry Seidler” and “Jung Youngsun: For All That Breathes On Earth”.

Panelists will include The World Around’s founder and director Beatrice GalileeStephen Burks and Malika Leiper, from the design team of this year’s US Pavilion; Aric Chen, general and artistic director of the Nieuwe Instituut, the commissioner of the Dutch Pavilion; architect Eva Franch i Gilabert, co-curator of the Catalan Pavilion; Béatrice Grenier, director of strategic projects & international programs at the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain; Fundación Organizmo’s Ana María Gutiérrez whose “We are all Woven” installation will be on show in the Arsenale exhibition; Kieran Long, director of Helsinki’s Amos Rex museum; Tosin Oshinowo, architect and designer whose “Lagos Marketplaces” is being presented in the Arsenale; and landscape architect Bas Smets, co-curator of the Belgian Pavilion.