A summit that anticipates the uncertainties of the future while highlighting culture’s pivotal role in shaping it.

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.

Rafael Lozano-Hemmer

Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Mexican-Canadian media artist creates platforms for public participation by using robotic lights, digital fountains, computerized surveillance, and telematic networks. Inspired by phantasmagoria, carnival, and animatronics, his interactive works are “anti-monuments for people to self-represent.”

He was the first artist to represent Mexico at the 2007 Venice Biennale. His large-scale participatory art installations transform public spaces, creating connective environments for communities. In 2019, he presented “Border Tuner”, designed to interconnect the bordering cities of El Paso, Texas, and Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua. Other works were commissioned for events such as the Millennium Celebrations in Mexico City (1999), the UN World Summit in Lyon (2003), the Winter Olympics in Vancouver (2010), and the pre-opening of the Guggenheim Museum in Abu Dhabi (2015), among others. His works are in collections around the world such as MoMA, Guggenheim, TATE, Reina Sofía, and Hirshhorn. Recent exhibitions include “Unstable Presence,” a mid-career retrospective co-produced by the MAC de Montreal and SFMOMA; “Common Measures,” his first solo exhibition at PACE Gallery ; and “Translation Island,” a 2-km parcours in Abu Dhabi.

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.