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09/11/2026

How to Plant a Lake is premiering in NYC! 🎬

We’re thrilled to share that the film will be screening as part of two incredible film festivals this fall. Join us!

📽️Climate Film Festival Climate Film Fest , World Premiere
🗓️September 19, 2026
🕰️7:45 pm
📍Regal Essex Crossing Cinema 9, New York

🎞️Architecture & Design Film Festival (ADFF:NY) Architecture and Design Film Festival
🗓️October 15, 2026 at 6:30 pm
🗓️October 17, 2026 at 4:00 pm
📍Village East by Angelika, New York

Dayana Blanco Quiroga , age 25, has witnessed Bolivia’s Uru Uru Lake become dangerously choked with mining runoff and industrial waste, severely impacting the future of seven Indigenous communities and the 76 bird species that call its wetland shores home. But she is determined to clean its polluted waters. Alongside her mentor, Argentine curator Acampante , and her Uru Uru Team, the Aymara climate leader is fighting back by building floating rafts of totora reeds—a native plant her ancestors knew as a natural purifier—to draw the toxins out of the lake. Combining ancestral knowledge, science and collective action, an all-too-familiar tale of environmental crisis has become an example of resilience, restoration, and proof that anyone with the right tools can help tackle the climate emergency.

How To Plant A Lake is a part of Young Climate Stories series presented by The World Around, made possible by MillerKnoll .

🔗Tickets link in bio

09/08/2026

“Architecture is one of the most political fields,” says Mariam Issoufou.

Earlier this year, during PIN–UP® Magazine ’s 40th-anniversary cover shoot, some of New York’s most talked-about architects came together under one roof, so we asked them, “What do you want to say to Mayor Mamdani?” This series presents questions, opinions, and ideas from New York architects to the city’s new mayor.

Today we look into what New York architects want Mayor Mamdani and his administration to know about the politics of architecture. Read more about what Mariam Issoufou, Mabel O. Wilson, V. Mitch McEwen, Ivi Diamantopoulou, Noam Dvir and James Wines had to say on our Insights. Link in the bio.

If you are an architect or a designer, let us know what you’d like to say to the Mayor in the comments.

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08/29/2026

“How can we incorporate nature more into our daily lives for everyone in a very equitable and climate-resilient way?” Andrew Heid.

Earlier this year, during PIN–UP® Magazine ’s 40th-anniversary cover shoot, some of New York’s most talked-about architects came together under one roof, so we asked them, “What do you want to say to Mayor Mamdani?” This series presents questions, opinions, and ideas from New York architects to the city’s new mayor.

Today we look into what New York architects want Mayor Mamdani and his administration to know about working with the city’s infrastructure, nature and waters. Read more about what Andrés Jaque, Andrew Heid, Tei Carpenter and Bjarke Ingels had to say on our Insights. Link in the bio.

If you are an architect or a designer, let us know what you’d like to say to the Mayor in the comments.
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08/25/2026

We are excited to share that How to Plant a Lake / Cómo plantar un lago has been selected for the 2026 Climate Film Festival, screening September 17-21 in New York City during NYC Climate Week.

Join us for the world premiere and post-screening conversation!

🗓️September 19, 2026
🕰️7:45 pm
📍Regal Essex Crossing Cinema 9, New York
🔗Tickets link in bio

The documentary follows Dayana Blanco Quiroga, Aymara climate leader from Oruro, Bolivia and a winner of The World Around Young Climate Prize, as she revives an ancestral practice of planting totora reeds to draw toxins from Lake Uru Uru, poisoned by decades of mining. Alongside her mentor Sebas Acampante and her Uru Uru Team, Dayana’s fight to heal the lake becomes proof that Indigenous knowledge, held carefully and applied collectively, is climate action.

Get your tickets now and join us at the Climate Film Festival in NYC to celebrate climate cinema and storytelling!

08/21/2026

NYC’s Mayor Mamdani just released a statement advising that 700,000 new homes need to be built within the next decade. As part of our Dear Mayor Mamdani series, Florian Idenburg urges City Hall to invite architects into policy and development decisions much earlier in the process.

Earlier this year, during PIN–UP® Magazine ’s 40th-anniversary cover shoot, some of New York’s most talked-about architects came together under one roof, so we asked them, “What do you want to say to Mayor Mamdani?” This series presents questions, opinions, and ideas from New York architects to the city’s new mayor.

Today we look into what New York architects want Mayor Mamdani and his administration to know about their biggest interest: housing. Read more about what Ada Tolla, Amale Andraos, Adam Rolston and Florian Idenburg had to say on our Insights. Link in the bio.

If you are an architect or a designer, let us know what you’d like to say to the Mayor in the comments.

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08/14/2026

“New York is built as a laboratory for architecture,” Nile Greenberg.

Earlier this year, during PIN–UP® Magazine ’s 40th-anniversary cover shoot, some of New York’s most talked-about architects came together under one roof, so we asked them “What do you want to say to Mayor Mamdani?” This series presents questions, opinions, and ideas from New York architects to the city’s new mayor.

Today we look into what New York architects want Mayor Mamdani and his administration to know about who gets to build our city, who builds a city and how to make space for them. Read more about what Greenberg, Nahyun Hwang, Michael Abel, Andrea Chiney and Jaffer Kolb had to say on our Insights. Link in the bio.

If you are an architect or a designer, let us know what you’d like to say to the Mayor in the comments.
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08/06/2026

“The city is our living room,” Pernilla Ohrstedt.

Earlier this year, during PIN–UP’s 40th-anniversary cover shoot, some of New York’s most talked-about architects came together under one roof, so we asked them: “What do you want to say to Mayor Mamdani?” This series presents questions, opinions, and ideas from New York architects to the city’s new mayor.

Today we look into what New York architects want Mayor Mamdani and his administration to know about the parks, libraries, streets and the infrastructure of belonging. Read more about what Ohrstedt, Susan Wines, Amina Blacksher and Mimi Hoang had to say on our Insights. Link in the bio.

If you are an architect or a designer, let us know what you’d like to say to the Mayor in the comments.

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The World Around is proud to share that our founder and Executive Director Beatrice Galilee has been named to the Wallpa...
07/31/2026

The World Around is proud to share that our founder and Executive Director Beatrice Galilee has been named to the Wallpaper* US400 for the third consecutive year. The annual list honours those defining America’s creative landscape across art, design, architecture, and more. Beatrice’s work with The World Around, the Young Climate Prize , and a decade of curatorial practice continues to change how architecture engages with the future.

We are grateful to Wallpaper* for the recognition and thrilled to see her in such exceptional company.

US400 animation credits: Antonin Waterkeyn

06/25/2026

𝗗𝗲𝗮𝗿 𝗠𝗮𝘆𝗼𝗿 𝗠𝗮𝗺𝗱𝗮𝗻𝗶… Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani

Earlier this year, during PIN–UP’s 40th-anniversary cover shoot, The World Around invited New York architects to share one request for the city’s new mayor ajusbssunahah

Some proposals are practical, some ambitious, some radical. Taken together, they offer a collective brief for New York’s future.

Today’s proposal comes from Diller Scofidio + Renfro



06/23/2026

𝗗𝗲𝗮𝗿 𝗠𝗮𝘆𝗼𝗿 𝗠𝗮𝗺𝗱𝗮𝗻𝗶… Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani

Earlier this year, during PIN–UP’s 40th-anniversary cover shoot, The World Around invited New York architects to share one request or thought for the city’s new mayor ajusbssunahah

Some proposals are practical, some ideas as grand, some radical. Taken together, they offer a collective brief for New York’s future.

Today’s fundamental idea comes from Mariam Issoufou 



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