Territorial Agency to curate seventh edition of Lisbon Architecture Triennale
22/03/2023.
[LISB] Portugal
metalocus, ANDRÉS BLANCO
metalocus, ANDRÉS BLANCO
Territorial Agency, led by Ann-Sofi Rönnskog and John Palmesino, has been appointed Chief Curators of the seventh edition of the Lisbon Architecture Triennale taking place in the autumn of 2025.
How heavy is a city? is the question setting off the 7th edition of the Lisbon Architecture Triennale. This seemingly simple question instigates a three-year research project into the complex set of transformations of both the city and its backdrop, revealing a new figure in the making with a magnitude of planetary dimensions.
How heavy is a city? is the question setting off the 7th edition of the Lisbon Architecture Triennale. This seemingly simple question instigates a three-year research project into the complex set of transformations of both the city and its backdrop, revealing a new figure in the making with a magnitude of planetary dimensions.
Multibeam sonar sounding of Reykjanes Ridge in the Atlantic Ocean. Image by Territorial Agency
The Nile Delta with sea level rise at 2°C above pre-industrial levels in blue, Sentinel data. Territorial Agency: Oceans in Transformation, 2020
ESA Sentinel 5P aerosols in the atmosphere. Image by Territorial Agency
Continuity between land and sea in Europe: from -200m to +200m. Image by Territorial Agency
Fishing activity, trans-shipment, maritime transport, high-resolution bathymetricsonar soundings, sea mounts and sea vents in the South Atlantic Ocean. Image by Territorial Agency
Mesopotamia: territorial transformations in the age of global war. Multi-year satellite multispectral analysis, normalized difference vegetation index. Image by Territorial Agency
Territorial Agency: Ann-Sofi Rönnskog and John Palmesino, 2023. Photograph by Matilde Travassos.
How heavy is a city? opens up a space where new notions of architecture start to emerge. A space where ideas of collaboration with material structures and intensified dynamic environments, different life forms, information, energy and material fluxes are formed anew. A space where architecture guides the material characterisations of the millenary shifts marking life on our planet.
This simple question hides a complex set of transformations of both the city and its backdrop, revealing a new figure in the making with a magnitude of planetary dimensions. To sort out these transformations, a re-assembly of architecture and what it means to build a collective environment is required. The Triennale becomes a public space of learning, experience, curiosity, inquiry, debate, delight, outrage, speculation, transgression, imagination and action about the possible futures of cohabitation.
The curatorial programme investigates the spatial dimensions of the transformations marking the Anthropocene. It asks questions of design, governance, agency and proposition. Establishing a new unit to evaluate architecture, How heavy is a city? explores forms of cooperation and mutuality, recasting its role as a driver of debate.
Ocean Trajectories. Image by Territorial Agency.
The Lisbon Triennale is devoted to promoting research, encouraging debate and inspiring transformation through architecture. Since 2007, its major forum takes the pulse of acclaimed, emerging as well as informal practices across disciplinary and geographic boundaries. Over the decades, this outward-looking approach has built up an atlas of agents from thinkers to makers and spanning from governance to activism. Reinventing itself in each edition, its only constant is to serve as a mutable collective platform to inquire about contemporary architectural challenges.
This simple question hides a complex set of transformations of both the city and its backdrop, revealing a new figure in the making with a magnitude of planetary dimensions. To sort out these transformations, a re-assembly of architecture and what it means to build a collective environment is required. The Triennale becomes a public space of learning, experience, curiosity, inquiry, debate, delight, outrage, speculation, transgression, imagination and action about the possible futures of cohabitation.
The curatorial programme investigates the spatial dimensions of the transformations marking the Anthropocene. It asks questions of design, governance, agency and proposition. Establishing a new unit to evaluate architecture, How heavy is a city? explores forms of cooperation and mutuality, recasting its role as a driver of debate.
Ocean Trajectories. Image by Territorial Agency.
The Lisbon Triennale is devoted to promoting research, encouraging debate and inspiring transformation through architecture. Since 2007, its major forum takes the pulse of acclaimed, emerging as well as informal practices across disciplinary and geographic boundaries. Over the decades, this outward-looking approach has built up an atlas of agents from thinkers to makers and spanning from governance to activism. Reinventing itself in each edition, its only constant is to serve as a mutable collective platform to inquire about contemporary architectural challenges.
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Venue / Localitation
Palácio Sinel de Cordes. Campo de Santa Clara, 142–145. 1100-474 Lisbon,
Portugal.
Exhibition’s Curators
Territorial Agency. John Palmesino and Ann-Sofi Rönnskog.
Dates
Autumn 2025.
John Palmesino, Ann-Sofi Rönnskog. Territorial Agency
Territorial Agency. Established by architects John Palmesino and Ann-Sofi Rönnskog, Territorial Agency combines contemporary architecture, science, art, advocacy and action to promote comprehensive territorial transformations in the Anthropocene epoch.
Recent projects include Sensible Zone at the Biennale di Venezia, Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism, Barbican London, Warsaw Biennale; Oceans in Transformation commissioned by TBA21–Academy, in collaboration with ZKM Critical Zones and Taipei Biennial 20; Museum of Oil with Greenpeace, ZKM Reset Modernity and Chicago Architecture Biennial; Anthropocene Observatory with Armin Linke and Anselm Franke at HKW Haus der Kulturen der Welt Berlin, BAK Utrecht and in the collection of Centraal Museum Utrecht.
Territorial Agency is the recipient of the STARTS PRIZE 2021 – Grand prize of the European Commission honouring innovation in technology, industry and society stimulated by the arts for Oceans in Transformation.
John Palmesino and Ann-Sofi Rönnskog are Unit Masters at the AA Architectural Association School of Architecture, London, where they have conducted sustained multi-year work on the transformations of the Coast of Europe; the emergent technosphere planetary paradigm and have inaugurated a new project on Climate Peace.
Recent projects include Sensible Zone at the Biennale di Venezia, Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism, Barbican London, Warsaw Biennale; Oceans in Transformation commissioned by TBA21–Academy, in collaboration with ZKM Critical Zones and Taipei Biennial 20; Museum of Oil with Greenpeace, ZKM Reset Modernity and Chicago Architecture Biennial; Anthropocene Observatory with Armin Linke and Anselm Franke at HKW Haus der Kulturen der Welt Berlin, BAK Utrecht and in the collection of Centraal Museum Utrecht.
Territorial Agency is the recipient of the STARTS PRIZE 2021 – Grand prize of the European Commission honouring innovation in technology, industry and society stimulated by the arts for Oceans in Transformation.
John Palmesino and Ann-Sofi Rönnskog are Unit Masters at the AA Architectural Association School of Architecture, London, where they have conducted sustained multi-year work on the transformations of the Coast of Europe; the emergent technosphere planetary paradigm and have inaugurated a new project on Climate Peace.
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