Our World in Design: Immortal Spaces

Our World in Design: Immortal Spaces is a one-day design summit, bringing together change-makers and thought leaders from across disciplines—from art and architecture to neuroscience and prison reform—to explore the spaces that make us human, the legacies we will leave behind, and the future we can build together.
 
Organized by architect Michael P. Murphy and hosted by the High Museum of Art and the Georgia Tech School of Architecture, the summit will feature more than two dozen speakers in conversation throughout the day. Participants include architect Marlon Blackwell, artist Hank Willis Thomas, former Atlanta mayor Shirley Franklin, Georgia Tech president Ángel Cabrera, neuroscientist Susan Magsamen, lawyer and professor Andrea Armstrong, museum director Kristy Edmunds, and cellist and composer Joshua Roman, alongside many others. As we explore new frontiers of inhabitation and culture, spaces and their design matter more than ever.
 
Our World in Design: Immortal Spaces examines the spatial politics and practices of space making—and the urgent questions of why architecture remains at the center of them all as authorship, mortality, and the meaning of space continue to shift around us.
 
Through a series of interdisciplinary conversations, the summit reflects on how design shapes human life, memory, and the built environments that will carry our stories forward.
 
Registration required.