Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
29 — 31 / OCT
Curated by Filipa Ramos
The Triennale 2025 will host an intense programme of lectures and debates around the three research lines: Fluxes, Spectres, and Lighter. International experts from many fields engage and discuss with the audience their work. During each session, a shared space is assembled to disclose new audacious ideas and foster pioneer research, culminating with a drink&talk, moderated by Lilet Breddels, Christele Harrouk, and Federica Zambeletti - an irreverent and informal gathering between audience and speakers.
"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? Talk, Talk, Talk will lead towards an investigation of the role of weight and pressure on spatial, infrastructural, relational and environmental matters over the three day conference." —Filipa Ramos
