The Weight of What We’ve Built: Lisbon’s Architecture Triennale 2025
"Lisbon’s Architecture Triennale takes stock of humanity’s material excess and asks what it means to think lighter.
by Emma Lucek
30 trillion tonnes. That’s the estimated weight of the Technosphere, the total mass of material humanity has created. It’s a scale so vast it inspired a proposed (and rejected) geological epoch: the Anthropocene. How heavy is a city? asks this year’s Lisbon Architecture Triennale. Curated by Ann-Sofi Rönnskogand John Palmesino of Territorial Agency, with exhibition design by Fernando Brízio, the Triennale’s core consists of three thought-exhibitions, open frameworks for research and reflection. Yet as we begin unpacking what our world is really made of — wiring, ceramics, agricultural land, satellites, roads — I feel both awe at what humans have built and dread at how we might ever lighten the load."
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