Seventh Lisbon Architecture Triennale

What is the gritty politics of sand?

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What is the gritty politics of sand?

Michaela Büsse

How Heavy is a City?

How is pressure transforming our world?

How to Imagine?

What is a planetary revolution?

How are we affected by the Earth?

Who transforms cities?

How is life changing the planet?

How are we a geological force?

How heavy is information?

How to think with others?

How to do things with worlds?

How to share technologies?

How do we record a history of forgetting?

How to transform the borders of the city?

Who owns information?

How to sense planetary light?

How heavy is dust?

Can fluxes be contained?

What is a river?

How to keep sediment in flux?

How heavy is a building?

How heavy is chaos?

How heavy is memory?

How to rematerialise?

How does technology interact with the biosphere?

What is a natural landscape?

How to design with entropy?

Can one exchange without equivalence?

How to govern the commons of humanity?

What is presence?

What do images do?

How to think of the sun?

What are the sonic landscapes of the Anthropocene?

What is the slop?

What is the gritty politics of sand?

Soft technologies, anyone?

How to non-organize?

How heavy is air?

How heavy is the cloud?

What are the infrastructures of sensing?

How to see through buildings?

What is non-historical time?

Opening days 02 — 04 Oct 2025
Talk, Talk, Talk 29 — 31 Oct 2025

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This ongoing collaborative platform is expanding to accommodate emerging notions of citizenship, images, diagrams, concepts, tools, and processes. The 7th edition of the Lisbon Architecture Triennale is seeking new interdisciplinary ways of understanding how our technological present intersects the fragile dynamics of our living planet. How Heavy is a City? kick-starts a global discussion to outline a new figure in the making. This research culminates in Lisbon in the autumn of 2025.

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