Alana Goldweit is reimagining where and how humanity will live next. A senior leader at the globally renowned Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG), she works at the frontier of extreme architecture: building cities in deserts, floating communities on oceans, and 3D-printed habitats on the moon.

From a desert metropolis built on principles of “equitism,” to modular floating cities responding to rising sea levels, to lunar habitats printed from moon dust, Goldweit argues that constraint is the engine of creativity. And that building for the moon may ultimately teach us how to build better on Earth.

Watch as Alena Goldwight maps the next frontier of human habitat in her presentation. And in the followup conversation with Shoma Chaudhury, Founder of Lucid Lines & Founder-Director, SYNAPSE, she unpacks what designing for the harshest environments on Earth – and beyond – teaches us about survival, resilience, and the future of urban life.