Kick-starting the Lisbon Architecture Triennale 2013

The third Lisbon Architecture Triennale has already started. Its theme is "Close, Closer", and it's focused as an investigation into the expanding field of contemporary architectural practice. We begin presenting a first installment of their activities. Part of the programme of Close, closer is New Publics, a series of experimental public actions that take place in the city of Lisbon.

Superpowers of Ten © Andrés Jaque / Office for Political Innovation.

"Close, Closer"

Situating itself as an investigation into the expanding forms of contemporary architecture, and using the platform to position questions rather than presenting answers, Close, Closer presents five diverse poles of practice: Speculation, Intimacy, Dispersion, Agency and Pedagogy. Through a diverse, participation driven programme, Close, Closer is considering the condition in which architecture is practiced and the way it is framed, expressed and understood today.

Date: From 12th September to 15th December 201

Opening week.- 12-15 September.
Chief Curator.- Beatrice Galilee .
Curators.- José Esparza, Mariana Pestana, Liam Young.
 Assistant Curator.- Dani Admiss.

New Publics is one of the first programmes that have taken place within Close, Closer - We'll keep bringing you more events in the next few days.

"New Publics"

On a theatrical Civic Stage, New Publics presents a radically new programme of Speech Acts, Body Acts and City Acts that include a brand-new, especially commissioned script for Public Theatre, addresses by the candidates running for mayor of Lisbon in an open-air session, speeches, workshops and guerrilla urban interventions. The programme frames voice as the main medium through which we create civic spaces and explores the theatrical public enactment of inspiring statements to reach broad and diverse audiences. Between 16 and 31 October, the Civic Stage will function as an open venue to host events and programmes from independent agents and associations.

The participants are Andrés Jaque /Office for Political Innovation (ES), Artéria (PT), Daniel Fernández Pascual (ES), Estudio SIC (ES), Fernando García-Dory (ES), Francisca Benítez (CL), Frida Escobedo (MX), Noura Al Sayeh (BH), Pelin Tan (TK), Teatro Praga (PT), Unipop (PT), Victoria Bugge Øye (NO).

Date: From 12th September to 10th November 2013

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Beatrice Galilee 

Beatrice Galilee (b. London, UK, 1982) is an architecture curator, author and design advisor. She is the founder and executive director of The World Around, a New York-based nonprofit platform dedicated to visionary global design and architecture. She is the author of Radical Architecture of the Future, published by Phaidon in 2021, and between 2014-2019 served as the first curator of contemporary architecture and design at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, where she worked on collections, exhibitions and commissions, including collaborations with artists including Wolfgang Tillmans, Cornelia Parker and Adrián Villar Rojas.

Between 2009 and 2013, Beatrice Galilee served as chief curator of the 2013 Lisbon Architecture Triennale; co-curator of the 2011 Gwangju Design Biennale; and co-curator of the 2009 Shenzhen Hong Kong Bi-City Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism. In collaboration with Aberrant Architecture, she launched and co-directed The Gopher Hole, an experimental exhibition and project space in East London.

Beatrice's writing career began in 2001 as a contributor to Building Design, and she continues to work in architectural publishing, with essays, reviews, journals and newspapers including Wallpaper*, Elle Decor, Icon, Domus and many more.

Mariana Pestana

Mariana Pestana (b. Viseu, Portugal, 1982) is an architect and curator, living and working between London and Lisbon. Her work is informed by an interest in architecture and fiction. She makes exhibitions and installations that enact fictional scenarios and programmes, so that many people can experience them together.

In 2011, she co-founded a collective called The Decorators, with whom she developed curatorial and research projects through interventions in the public realm.

She was a lecturer in Spatial Design at Central Saint Martins and Chelsea College of Arts, and in Design Interactions at the Royal College of Arts. At the moment She is part of the teaching team of the University of the Underground at Sandberg Institute, and she is completing a PhD called Fictional World Enactments at the Bartlett School of Architecture.

She was co-curating an exhibition called The Future Starts Here for the V&A (Victoria and Albert Museum) that opened in May 2018. This was an exhibition about emerging technologies and how they are already affecting our future at a range of scales: as individuals, as citizens and as a species. She was also co-curating an exhibition for MAAT (Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology), which opened to the public in April 2018, in Lisbon, called Eco-Visionaries: Art and Architecture After the Anthropocene. Divided into four moments of ecological awareness - Disaster, Confluence, Extinction and Adaptation - it displays work by contemporary artists and architects that capture subjective, fluctuating, unstable images of ecology.

She will be the curator of the 5th Istanbul Design Biennial, which will take place on 26 September – 8 November 2020.

Published on: September 12, 2013

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