Livestream on October 29, 30, and 31 at 6pm WET / 2pm EST
October 29–31, 2025, 2pm
e-flux is pleased to host the livestream for “Talk, Talk, Talk,” a three-day conversation series presented by How heavy is a city?, the seventh edition of the Lisbon Architecture Triennale. Taking place at Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian in Lisbon, “Talk, Talk, Talk” will be livestreamed on e-flux Events at 6pm WET / 2pm EST on October 29, 30, and 31st.
Architecture is a tool through which we think, mend, and remake both the social orders we inhabit and the spatial arrangements that hold them. Over three days, Talk, Talk, Talk brings together architects, theorists and activists to explore how notions of weight and pressure shape spaces and condition human and more-than-human infrastructures, environments and lives.
This public program opens debates across architects and thinkers engaged in spatial practices today, connecting politics and ecologies with notions of social and environmental justice. The discussion of case-studies and wider ideas creates a forum for layered and urgent exchanges about our present-future.
Curator Filipa Ramos writes:
Weight, the element at the core of How heavy is a city?, is one of the largest elephants in this cumbersome, deranged, and dystopic room called the Anthropocene, which humanity created for itself and others. It is unquestionable that there has been a global and massive redistribution of weight upon the surface of the Earth, caused by the all the materials that have been, and continue to be, extracted, mined, transformed, produced, repurposed, and rearranged by and for all sorts of human activities.
The way people live, circulate, consume, produce, and pollute has immense consequences for the composition and stability of the planet as a whole. Some of these are visible—and indeed the Anthropocene is also an aesthetic issue—while others are less so. Such is the case of weight, in its different manifestations.
Urban spaces can be seen as large sacrificial zones, concentrating human dwellings and activities and consolidating the idea of nature as a detached and exotic expression of life. At the same time, they are incubators of new possibilities and test sites for conceiving otherwise. In parallel, if we consider that weight is not only the expression of a body’s mass but also the downward force that this body produces, simply by existing, and that the pressure it is capable of generating may have an overall effect on the planet, how is pressure acting as an agent of transformation upon our present-future world?
Program details and participant bios follow below.
Program
October 29, 2025
6pm WET / 2pm EST
Spectres: Empire and Extractivism
The opening debate addresses some of the most complex dimensions of weight—looking at the ghosts, ruins and inherited pressures of extraction, colonialism and terraforming gestures—to interrogate how histories of violence haunt present ecologies and infrastructures, and how these unresolved spectres press upon cities, territories and bodies.
Participants: Kenny Cupers, Michael Marder, Yara Sharif and Nasser Golzari
Moderated by Christele Harrouk, Editor-in-Chief of ArchDaily
October 30, 2025
6pm WET / 2pm EST
Fluxes: Changes and Transformations
Fluxes considers flows of matter, energy and meaning across geographies, infrastructures, and communities. This session investigates how global and local circulations condition everyday lives—from displacement to supply chains—and how architecture might engage with these fluxes as forms of solidarity and resistance.
Participants: Andrés Jaque, Tiago Patatas, Kathryn Yusoff
Moderated by Federica Zambeletti, Founder and Director of KoozArch
October 31, 2025
6pm WET / 2pm EST
Lighter: How to Make Otherwise
How can weight be reimagined as responsibility, support and resilience rather than burden? Opening a space for discussing forms of architecture and urban life that embrace fragility and erosion, but also play and tenderness, it proposes lighter ways to inhabit the city and to rethink its gravitational pulls.
Participants: Supawut Boonmahathanakorn, Eyal Weizman, Cristina Díaz Moreno and Efrén García Grinda (amid.cero9)
Moderated by Lilet Breddels, Director of Archis Foundation, Publisher of Volume
For more information about the livestreamed program, contact program@e-flux.com.
