Seventh Lisbon Architecture Triennale

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, this public programme explores how notions of weight and pressure shape spaces and condition human and more-than-human infrastructures, environments and lives.

The series 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. Each day closes with a Drink & Talk — an informal discussion where everyone is welcome to take part.

Curated by Filipa Ramos.

Participants: Kenny Cupers, Michael Marder, Yara Sharif and Nasser Golzari (Architects for Gaza), Andrés Jaque, Tiago Patatas, Kathryn Yusoff, Supawut Boonmahathanakorn, Cristina Díaz Moreno and Efrén Garcia Grinda (amid.cero9), Eyal Weizman.

Moderators: Christele Harrouk, Federica Zambeletti, Lilet Breddels.

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 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. 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?

Filipa Ramos

Daily tickets and 3-Day Pass available for the Talk, Talk, Talk conference series, taking place on October 29th, 30th and 31st, always at 6pm, at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.

• Regular ticket: 

  Three-day Pass: 60€

  Daily Ticket: 24€
  

• With 45% discount*: 

  Three-day Pass: 33€

  Bilhete Diário: 13,20€
  

  *Students, over 65 years old, members of the Order of Architects, unemployed.

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