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The question “How Heavy is a City?” shapes the seventh edition of the Lisbon Triennale in autumn 2025, curated by Territorial Agency. It challenges our current understanding of human spaces: the answer demands an inquiry into the new planetary dimension of all networked technological artefacts, and the energy, material, and information fluxes that sustain humanity. It leads to rethink notions of citizenship in a transformed world.
In an expanded understanding of spatial structures that sustain human life, we launch three open calls inviting projects to dive into a detailed characterisation of the current fluxes shaping a city and to propose innovative modes to think what knowledge, practices, and assemblies constitute a lighter city.
How Heavy is a City? comprises three lines of work based on multi-disciplinary (architecture, arts, technologies and sciences) processes leading to three main exhibitions: Fluxes concentrates on the intersections of human spaces – the vast material, energy and information flows that sustain humanity—with the fragile and complex cycles of the living Earth. Spectres focuses on the imaginal technologies necessary to comprehend the impact of human spaces on the planet, and how they echo imperial and colonial structures of extraction and power. Lighter indicates a pathway through the experiments in new assemblages of polities and material processes as they interact with ecosystems in rapid change.
Together, we aim for new ways of understanding how the technological present intersects the fragile dynamics of our living planet. Check now our open calls.
Independent projects
We are seeking up to twelve projects to enrich the Lisbon Triennale international platform with proposals from individual or collective applicants from different knowledge and practice trajectories. We welcome an array of proposals such as exhibitions, lectures, workshops, performances, editorials and online projects, to engage with the question of the seventh Lisbon Triennale. Deadline: January 20, 2025. Check the guidelines.
Universities competition
This international competition has two categories: one for Masters degree programmes and one for research programmes. A selection of nine proposals will be showcased in the three main exhibitions of the upcoming seventh edition curated by Territorial Agency. In addition, a collection of essays will be released in an open online publication. Deadline: February 3, 2025. Check the guidelines.
Début Award
The Lisbon Triennale Millennium bcp Début Award is open to architecture practitioners up to the age of 40, or an architectural studio with an average age of up to 40. The shortlisted five practitioners/practices will be invited to give a public lecture on their projects during the Triennale. With no registration fee, we aim to unveil new talents devoted to architecture. Deadline: February 24, 2025. Check the guidelines.
The Lisbon Triennale is devoted to promote research, ignite debate and inspire transformation through architecture. We hope to engage new dialogues, cross disciplinary connections as well as vital audiences to investigate How Heavy is a City?
