A summit that anticipates the uncertainties of the future while highlighting culture’s pivotal role in shaping it.
April 23rd-24th
2025
Campus ACCIONA
Madrid, Spain
What’s NEXT IN Cultural Placemaking?
What’s NEXT IN Technology?
What’s NEXT IN Artificial Intelligence?
What’s NEXT IN Sustainability?
What’s NEXT IN Cultural Infrastructure?
What’s NEXT IN Digital Entertainment?
What’s NEXT IN the Museum’s role?
What’s NEXT IN Art?
What’s NEXT IN Creativity?
What’s NEXT IN Big Data?
What’s NEXT IN Visitor Experience?
What’s NEXT IN Audience Engagement?
What’s NEXT IN Immersive Experiences?
What’s NEXT IN Heritage Preservation?
What is NEXT IN ?
NEXT IN is an inspiring forum which unites global cultural leaders to exchange insights, share best practices, and envision the future. It serves as a platform to spotlight groundbreaking projects, redefining public spaces and fostering meaningful visitor experiences.
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NEXT IN: Reimagining the Future Through Culture
This theme highlights culture as a catalyst for adaptation and innovation, recognizing how museums and cultural spaces are already serving as incubators of visionary ideas and experimental hubs for addressing humanity’s aspirations and challenges, while providing a platform to learn, share, and grow from their expertise.
Speakers
The most influential global figures in museums, design, and architecture.
Sir David Chipperfield
Founder and Principal, David Chipperfield Architects & Founder and President, Fundación RIA (United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, China, Spain)
Glenn D. Lowry
Director of The Museum of Modern Art, New York (MoMA) (United States)
Miguel Falomir
Director of the Museo Nacional del Prado (Spain)
Elizabeth Diller
Partner, Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R) (United States)
Sir David Chipperfield
David Chipperfield founded David Chipperfield Architects in 1985. Today the practice comprises five offices in London, Berlin, Milan, Shanghai and Santiago de Compostela. Among the accolades Chipperfield has received are the RIBA Royal Gold Medal, the Praemium Imperiale for Architecture, and the Valedor del Hispanismo. He was selected as the 2023 Laureate of The Pritzker Architecture Prize, in recognition of a lifetime’s work.
His architectural output includes the reconstruction and reinvention of the Neues Museum (Berlin), the Hepworth Wakefield (Wakefield, UK), Museo Jumex (Mexico City), the Saint Louis Art Museum East Building (St Louis), the Royal Academy masterplan (London), the Amorepacific Headquarters (Seoul), the West Bund Museum (Shanghai), the restoration of the Procuratie Vecchie (Venice), and the upcoming extension to the National Archaeological Museum (Athens).
In addition to design work, Chipperfield curated the 13th International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale in 2012, under the title ‘Common Ground’. In 2017 he founded Fundación RIA, a private, non-profit entity that works towards meaningful economic, environmental and cultural development in Galicia, Spain.
Glenn D. Lowry
Glenn D. Lowry became the sixth director of The Museum of Modern Art, New York (MoMA) in 1995. He has overseen the physical transformation of the Museum’s campus through two building campaigns that have more than doubled the size of MoMA’s galleries, quintupled its endowment, created an education and research center, and inspired a new model for the presentation of modern and contemporary art. Lowry has championed innovation, both onsite and online, to grow MoMA’s annual visitation to nearly 3 million in the galleries and 35 million across moma.org. He expanded the Museum’s curatorial departments, with the addition of Media and Performance, and supported MoMA’s intellectual growth by creating new research programs like Contemporary and Modern Art Perspectives (CMAP). In 2000, he led the merger of MoMA with the contemporary art center PS1, and in 2015, he worked with Thelma Golden to introduce a joint fellowship program with the Studio Museum in Harlem for rising professionals in the arts. Lowry is a strong advocate of contemporary artists and their work and he has lectured and written extensively in the support of contemporary art, on the role of museums in society, and on other topics related to his research interests. He currently serves on the boards of The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, the Clark Art Institute, the Art Bridges Foundation and The Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, as well as on the advisory boards of the Istanbul Modern and the Mori Art Museum. Lowry is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a resident member of the American Philosophical Society.
Miguel Falomir
(Valencia, 1966). Director del Museo Nacional del Prado. En 1989 se licencia en Historia del Arte por la Universidad de Valencia, obteniendo premio extraordinario, y desde 1990 hasta 1993 es becario FPI del Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia en el Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas. En 1993 se doctora en Historia del Arte por la Universidad de Valencia. Entre 1994 y 1995 disfruta de una beca Fulbright posdoctoral en el Institute of Fine Arts de la Universidad de Nueva York. Asimismo es profesor titular en el Departamento de Historia del Arte de la Universidad de Valencia y en 1997 es nombrado Jefe del Departamento de Pintura Italiana y Francesa (hasta 1700) del Museo Nacional del Prado. Entre 2008 y 2010 ha sido Andrew Mellon Professor en el Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts de la National Gallery of Art de Washington. En el año 2015 es nombrado director adjunto de Conservación e Investigación del Museo Nacional del Prado, cargo que ostenta hasta su nombramiento como director del mismo en marzo de 2017. Es miembro del Comitato Scientifico de la Fondazione Tiziano en Pieve di Cadore (Italia) y ha sido profesor invitado en las universidades de Údine en Italia y UCLA en Estados Unidos. Recibe el premio Harvard’s 2018 I Tatti Morgan por sus destacados logros en el ámbito de la conservación. Ha sido comisario de numerosas exposiciones organizadas por el Museo del Prado, entre las que se encuentran: De Tiziano a Bassano. Maestros venecianos del Museo del Prado (Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya, Barcelona, 1997), Una obra maestra restaurada. El Lavatorio de Jacopo Tintoretto (2000), Los Bassano en la España del siglo de oro (2001), La restauración de El emperador Carlos V, a caballo, en Mühlberg de Tiziano (2001), Tiziano (2003), Tintoretto (2007), El retrato del Renacimiento (2008), El último Rafael (2012), Las Furias: alegoría política y desafío artístico (2014), Tiziano: Dánae, Venus y Adonis. Las primeras poesías (2014) y Lorenzo Lotto. Retratos (2018).
Elizabeth Diller
Elizabeth Diller is a partner of Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R). Alongside partner Ricardo Scofidio, Diller’s cross-genre work has been distinguished with TIME’s "100 Most Influential People" list and the first MacArthur Foundation fellowship awarded in the field of architecture. She led two cultural works significant to New York: The Shed and the expansion of MoMA. Diller also co- created, -directed and -produced The Mile-Long Opera, an immersive choral work staged on the High Line. Diller is a member of the UN Council on Urban Initiatives and a Professor of Architectural Design at Princeton University.
+30 Speakers
Panel Sessions
VIP Tours
Keynotes
+400 Participants
+30 Speakers
Panel Sessions
VIP Tours
Keynotes
+400 Participants
+30 Speakers
Panel Sessions
VIP Tours
Keynotes
+400 Participants
+30 Speakers
Panel Sessions
VIP Tours
Keynotes
+400 Participants
Networking
A unique opportunity to network with key companies in the cultural sector, museum leaders, designers, artists, and other industry professionals.
The Objectives
By embracing uncertainty and fostering cross-disciplinary creativity, NEXT IN reimagines museums and cultural spaces as catalysts for a bold, collaborative, and future-ready world.
Interdisciplinary Insights
Step into the crossroads of culture, technology, demographics, and economics, exploring how these forces redefine identities and inspire new possibilities for a collective future.
Boundless Collaboration
Experience the synergy of diverse industries as artists, innovators, architects, and economists join forces to reshape cultural spaces into vibrant arenas for transformative ideas.
Active Empowerment
Explore innovative strategies that empower cultural institutions to ignite curiosity, cultivate resilience, and embrace sustainable business models. Learn how these spaces can adapt to shifting economic landscapes, fostering engagement and equipping audiences to navigate the challenges and opportunities of an evolving world.