"for this edition, Concéntrico's curatorial approach proposes incorporating practices that operate from the collective, the festive, and the performative. Based on the ideas presented in the book Concéntrico: Laboratorio de Innovación Urbana (Park Books, 2025), this edition proposes to deepen its research, allowing the program to be read as a reflection on the contemporary city."
"The festival invites architects, designers, artists, and researchers from different geographies to propose interventions that activate squares, streets, riverbanks, and vacant spaces in the city. This year's edition includes the participation of Smiljan Radić, the recently awarded Pritzker Architecture Prize laureate, who will develop a light, foldable, and temporary structure built from industrial plastic fabrics."
"The first explores architecture as a form of narrative and territorial interpretation; the second examines the relationships between architecture, climate, material, and landscape in the contemporary city; and the third considers ephemeral architecture as a means of activating social dynamics and temporarily transforming urban space."
Concéntrico, a Spanish laboratory for urban innovation, announced its 2025-2026 program on March 17th, showcasing temporary urban installations that reimagine public space usage. The festival brings together architects, designers, artists, and researchers to intervene in squares, streets, riverbanks, and vacant spaces. Pritzker Prize laureate Smiljan Radić will create a foldable temporary structure from industrial plastic fabrics inspired by a "poor circus" concept. Twenty-seven teams total, including three selected through international open calls, will participate. The festival operates under three curatorial frameworks: Identity and Fiction exploring architecture as narrative, Urban Ecologies examining architecture-climate-material relationships, and Ephemeral Agents considering temporary architecture's role in social activation and urban transformation.
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