The Triennale 2025 coalition’s research process culminates in three thought-exhibitions — Fluxes, Spectres, Lighter — that converge diverse architectural, cultural, scientific and artistic approaches: urbanism, design, geology, artificial intelligence, philosophy, construction, biology, literature, film, photography, linguistics, governance, history, robotics, logistics, imaging technologies.
Along the lines of scientific experiments that engage with new conceptions with thought experiments, the Gedankenausstellung (or thought-exhibition) is a concept developed by Peter Weibel and Bruno Latour, which reimagines exhibitions as spaces not merely for displaying objects but for presenting and structuring ideas. Rooted in contemporary media theory and science studies, this approach challenges the traditional role of exhibitions, turning them into dynamic arenas of intellectual engagement.
Fluxes, at MAAT – Museum of Architecture, Art and Technology, concentrates on the intersections of artificial spaces—the vast material, energy and information flows that sustain humanity—with the fragile and complex cycles of the living Earth.
Spectres, at MUDE – Lisbon Design Museum, focuses on the imaging technologies necessary to understand the impact of human spaces on the planet, and how these echo imperial and colonial structures of extraction and power.
Lighter, at MAC/CCB – Architecture Centre, indicates a pathway through the experiments of living in the troubled dynamics of the technosphere, with its abstraction of water, energy, fuel, materials, and information from the older planetary paradigms that form our living planet: how to have more light and less mass?