Concéntrico is the International Festival of Architecture and Design of Logroño, open to all citizens and visitors, which invites you to discover and rediscover the places of interest in the Historical Centre of the city. An annual event that invites us to rethink our environment through installations, exhibitions, meetings, performances, workshops and activities. More than 100 architects, designers and artists are taking part in this edition, and 48 regional, national and international institutions, entities and companies are collaborating.
As a novelty in this edition, Concéntrico establishes a collaboration with the Métropole de Rouen Normandie (France) and the monumental art biennial organized by it, La Forêt Monumentale, to curate an urban intervention in the city of Rouen in September 2019.
In Concéntrico 05, the festival broadens the focus of interest, introducing new spaces that seek to investigate new typologies and respond to changing urban environments. Concéntrico 05 incorporates the Chimney of the old Tabacalera, the Ebro river and its linear park that articulates the northern part of the city, a courtyard under the tower of the Church of San Bartolomé, and several parking spaces of El Espolón, always in debate in the current context.
Urban installations and performance
In this fifth edition, the festival proposes 16 installations and performances by architecture and design teams from different countries such as Germany, United Kingdom, Czech Republic, France, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Belgium, Finland and Spain. Teams are invited to transform the city through interventions that modify the perception and experience of the locations. It also has three facilities chosen by contest.
Each installation is created by teams of architects and/or designers who propose, experiment and explore new areas of environmental design. In this way, a dialogue is established between heritage and contemporary architecture that seeks to activate citizens' thoughts on the spaces.
Benedetto Bufalino, Paris - Tools for action, Berlin - Vaumm, San Sebastián - FAHR 021.3, Oporto - Lucas Muñoz Muñoz, Eindhoven - Martin Kloda / Hana Procházková, Praga - Robin Falck, Helsinki - Parasite 2.0, Milan / Brussels - Alfredo Baladrón, Madrid - Knitknot architecture, La Rioja - SZCZ Jakub Szczesny, Warsaw - EBBA architects, London - Juan Llamazares, Madrid - Gadea Burgaz / Pablo Losa, Madrid - L'Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Normandie, Rouen - Escuela Superior de Diseño, La Rioja.
Exhibitions and activities
The programme of Concéntrico 05 is completed with exhibitions, projections and conversations on design and architecture, which deepen the international context of the festival.
Exhibitions
As a novelty in this edition, Concéntrico establishes a collaboration with the Métropole de Rouen Normandie (France) and the monumental art biennial organized by it, La Forêt Monumentale, to curate an urban intervention in the city of Rouen in September 2019.
In Concéntrico 05, the festival broadens the focus of interest, introducing new spaces that seek to investigate new typologies and respond to changing urban environments. Concéntrico 05 incorporates the Chimney of the old Tabacalera, the Ebro river and its linear park that articulates the northern part of the city, a courtyard under the tower of the Church of San Bartolomé, and several parking spaces of El Espolón, always in debate in the current context.
Urban installations and performance
In this fifth edition, the festival proposes 16 installations and performances by architecture and design teams from different countries such as Germany, United Kingdom, Czech Republic, France, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Belgium, Finland and Spain. Teams are invited to transform the city through interventions that modify the perception and experience of the locations. It also has three facilities chosen by contest.
Each installation is created by teams of architects and/or designers who propose, experiment and explore new areas of environmental design. In this way, a dialogue is established between heritage and contemporary architecture that seeks to activate citizens' thoughts on the spaces.
Benedetto Bufalino, Paris - Tools for action, Berlin - Vaumm, San Sebastián - FAHR 021.3, Oporto - Lucas Muñoz Muñoz, Eindhoven - Martin Kloda / Hana Procházková, Praga - Robin Falck, Helsinki - Parasite 2.0, Milan / Brussels - Alfredo Baladrón, Madrid - Knitknot architecture, La Rioja - SZCZ Jakub Szczesny, Warsaw - EBBA architects, London - Juan Llamazares, Madrid - Gadea Burgaz / Pablo Losa, Madrid - L'Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Normandie, Rouen - Escuela Superior de Diseño, La Rioja.
Exhibitions and activities
The programme of Concéntrico 05 is completed with exhibitions, projections and conversations on design and architecture, which deepen the international context of the festival.
Exhibitions
- Reflection Pavilion, on the installations that have been made in the Mies van der Rohe Foundation's Pabelllón;
- I'm Plastic Design, a plural exhibition of ideas that aims to make people think about plastic;
- A sample of the more than 150 projects submitted to the three competitions called for the design of the interventions of Concéntrico 05, and of the proposals submitted to the competition to create an urban installation in the city of Rouen, within the framework of the La Forêt Monumentale festival;
- Arquitectura del VII Día shows that it discovers the history of the almost 3,000 churches that parishioners built between 1945 and 1989 in Poland, from recovered materials. These churches were both an expression of faith and a form of protest against the communist government. The exhibition uncovers the history of these churches through photographs, maps, archive research, and interviews with the builders;
- (Super)Vivencias. The art of designing the ordinary. This associated exhibition looks at objects in the field of design that in their planning, formal restlessness, influence, aesthetic proposal, or conceptual singularity suffer a "displacement", nothing accidental, from one field to another: from the field of design to the field of art.
- I'm Plastic Design, a plural exhibition of ideas that aims to make people think about plastic;
- A sample of the more than 150 projects submitted to the three competitions called for the design of the interventions of Concéntrico 05, and of the proposals submitted to the competition to create an urban installation in the city of Rouen, within the framework of the La Forêt Monumentale festival;
- Arquitectura del VII Día shows that it discovers the history of the almost 3,000 churches that parishioners built between 1945 and 1989 in Poland, from recovered materials. These churches were both an expression of faith and a form of protest against the communist government. The exhibition uncovers the history of these churches through photographs, maps, archive research, and interviews with the builders;
- (Super)Vivencias. The art of designing the ordinary. This associated exhibition looks at objects in the field of design that in their planning, formal restlessness, influence, aesthetic proposal, or conceptual singularity suffer a "displacement", nothing accidental, from one field to another: from the field of design to the field of art.
Focus
Between the rest of activities, it is possible to highlight the projection of the documentary Mies on the scene; the approach to the field of literature with the presence of Moisés Puente (Editorial Gustavo Gili, magazine 2G and Puente Editores) and the Editorial of the Fundación Arquia; Arquitectura en corto, a cycle of short films on innovation and trends in architecture. The presence of the program Escala Humana of La 2 TVE that proposes a different view on architecture; and the concert of the Intana group in the Plaza de San Bartolomé;.
Thanks to the help of the Spanish Ministry of Culture and Cultural Action and its Programme for the Internationalisation of Spanish Culture (PICE) in the Visitor Modality, Concéntrico 05 will once again host the Encuentros programme, a cycle of conversations on curating, research, dissemination and teaching of architecture in contemporary formats.
