Concéntrico Festival 2026 takes place in Logroño, Spain, from June 18 to 23, turning the city into a large-scale laboratory for architecture, design, and urban experimentation. Over six days, more than twenty interventions are placed across squares, vacant plots, streets, bridges, and emblematic spaces, involving international studios, researchers, and creators. The edition shifts toward collective, festive, and performative practices in public space, emphasizing sonic experiences and projects focused on accessibility, inclusion, and urban transformation. The program is organized around three thematic axes: Identity and Fiction, Urban Ecologies, and Ephemeral Agents. Smiljan Radić presents a temporary, foldable circus structure made with industrial plastic fabrics, designed to appear and disappear without leaving a trace, with an interior activated by air and color and shared projections for encounter and play.
"Concéntrico Festival 2026 will take place in Logroño, Spain, from June 18 to 23, transforming the city into a large-scale laboratory for architecture, design, and urban experimentation. Over six days, more than twenty interventions will be distributed across squares, vacant plots, streets, bridges, and emblematic spaces throughout the city, bringing together leading studios, researchers, and creators from the international scene, including Chilean architect Smiljan Radić, the raumlabor collective, Matilde Cassani, AAU Anastas, and Sahra Hersi, among others."
"This edition introduces a shift towards more collective, festive, and performative practices in public space, with a strong emphasis on sonic experiences and projects linked to accessibility, inclusion, and urban transformation. The programme is structured around three thematic axes: Identity and Fiction, Urban Ecologies, and Ephemeral Agents, ranging from architectures that understand public space as ritual or celebration to experimental approaches exploring materials, sound, and processes of reuse."
"Inspired by Eugenio Dittborn's Aeropostal Paintings and by the travelling circuses that move along the coasts of Chile, Smiljan Radić will bring a poor circus to Logroño: a lightweight, foldable, and temporary architecture built with industrial plastic fabrics. Like the circuses that briefly settle in fields and community spaces, the structure will appear and disappear without leaving a trace, activating a fragile interior filled with air and colour."
"Inside its communal space, several screens placed on the floor will project Le petit chapiteau (1963) by Joris Ivens, generating a shared space for encounter, observation, and play. The project recovers the circus as one of the historical matrices of ephemeral architecture and the scenic avant-gardes."
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