In partnership with The World Around, Dezeen broadcast a programme of live talks featuring Ryue Nishizawa, Liam Young, Alice Rawsthorn and more. You can watch the first part above. The first instalment of the day-long summit, which was streamed on Dezeen in three parts, featured a diverse range of practitioners who each use storytelling to decipher current global crises.

In this session , global critics, scientists, artists, and architects harness the power of stories to explain and investigate the crises the world is facing. Using text, drawings, interviews, cinema, and the imagination, they mobilize and make visible complex realities and teach, explore, and prototype more optimistic possible futures. Through their extraordinary and varied practices, this group of leaders and visionaries show that storytelling is not a playful distraction, but a fundamental design tool.

The first presentation of the day was given by design critic Alice Rawsthorn, who discussed Design Emergency, a research collaboration with curator Paola Antonelli