Terra

Welcome to Terra, a manifesto expressed as a declaration of intention and a call to action. With different meanings and scales, the Triennale 2022 proposes a reflection upon challenging settings that require a paradigm shift from a linear growth model to a circular evolutionary model.

Chief curators Cristina Veríssimo and Diogo Burnay introduce four interconnected exhibitions displaying diverse approaches, geographies and culture. These are brought forward in a forum where community, territory, city and landscape are not explored as an eco-product, but as a body in distress upon which different perspectives operate to work out possible responses. Let us take a peek inside the curatorial lines:

Cycles revolves around a storyline in five main chapters—setting, salvaging, furbishing, disassembling, and circulating complete the circuit of a circular model around which architecture may be organised. The debate proposed by Pamela Prado and Pedro Ignacio Alonso radiates around the idea that all design must be re-design, providing a critical view on innovation and revising the current standing of architects.

How can design and architecture address a period of inequality and rewrite the canon? Multiplicity presents a sequence formed by agenda, hacks, systems, production and canons, taking up the redefinition of scale and methods to tackle global challenges. Tau Tavengwa and Vyjayanthi Rao explore architecture’s self-change while embracing complexity and retaining relevance.

Retroactive, a self-explanatory title, examines retroactive infrastructures to address the broken city, a suturing tool for much needed interventions that transform the living conditions of most of the world’s urban population. Worldwide migration, land tenure, water, sanitation, overcrowding, waste, violence, mobility, and geographical vulnerability are the topics addressed by José Pablo Ambrosi and Loreta Castro Reguera.

A certain dose of naiveté is deliberately brought to the forum in Visionaries, Anastassia Smirnova’s attempt to penetrate the minds of collective and individual will through discovery. Imaginary versus realised actions, constructed worlds and territories are disclosed behind a Lynchian curtain, where continuous thresholds hide and show surprising encounters with unexpected works.

The sixth edition of the Lisbon Architecture Triennale, Terra, also materialises in our international conference series Talk, Talk, Talk, a collection of books, the Lisbon Triennale Millennium bcp Lifetime Achievement Award and, not least of all, the outcome of three worldwide calls, two of which are still open:

A pivotal voice is handed over to centres of knowledge in the Lisbon Triennale Millennium bcp Universities Award Competition, where universities worldwide will be given space in the four main exhibitions. Register by January 7!

New voices and new practices are also supported through the Lisbon Triennale Millennium bcp Début Award, a worldwide competition open to architects or studio collectives under 35. The call is open until February 28.

Independent projects will also make their presence felt, spanning multiple formats, such as installations, exhibitions, workshops, publications, presentations, conferences, performances, films or debates. The application results will be disclosed early next year.

The Triennale 2022 is an open platform for the plurality of contemporary architectural thinking and practice. Jump in!

Find more about the programme here. 

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