"Thirty trillion tons. This is the estimated mass of all human-made matter on Earth, and the starting point for the 7th edition of the Lisbon Architecture Triennale. Curated by Ann-Sofi Rönnskog and John Palmesino, founders of Territorial Agency, the event asks a deceptively simple question: How heavy is a city? To answer it requires more than data. It demands a shift in perception: from the scale of the city to the planetary technosphere."
"To answer it requires more than data. It demands a shift in perception: from the scale of the city to the planetary technosphere. From October to December 2025, Lisbon becomes a lens to examine that magnitude, hosting three main exhibitions ( Fluxes, Spectres, Lighter), a book of essays, a talks program, and more than twenty independent projects across the city."
The 7th Lisbon Architecture Triennale uses the estimate of thirty trillion tons of human-made matter to reframe urban scale within a planetary technosphere. Cities are treated as dense nodes in a global metabolism of infrastructures, technologies, and materials that sustain and reshape life on Earth. The program runs October–December 2025 in Lisbon and centers on three main exhibitions — Fluxes, Spectres, Lighter — alongside a book of essays, a talks program, and over twenty independent projects dispersed across the city. The initiative emphasizes perceptual shifts beyond data toward understanding material magnitude and planetary impact.
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