Concéntrico

Festival 2026

18 – 23 June

From 18 to 23 June 2026, Logroño hosts the 12th edition of Concéntrico, the International Festival of Architecture and Design that since 2015 has transformed the city into an urban laboratory to rethink and experiment with new ways of inhabiting public space.

Over the years, Concéntrico has invited architects, designers, artists and researchers from different geographies to work directly within the urban environment, proposing interventions that activate squares, streets, riverbanks and urban voids. More than a sequence of installations, the festival operates as a collective process that connects institutions, creative communities and citizens through design and architecture.

In 2026, the participating teams are Smiljan Radić, Matilde Cassani, AAU Anastas, Boltshauser × Garbizu Collar, Parabase, OFREIA, BEar, CENTRAL + Maxime Delvaux, raumlabor, Sahra Hersi, Suomi–Koivisto & IC-98, Zeppelin Design, Faris Alossaimi, 2050+, Sounds of Architecture Records, Amanda Pinatih + Gabriel Fontana, Taelon7, Future Firm, DF DC, Ignacio G. Galán + Ozaeta Fidalgo Architects + Jordan Whitewood-Neal, PPAA, El Plano Latente, noof group and Tło, whose projects will unfold across different sites in the city.

The programme is structured around three thematic lines that cut across the proposals from different perspectives: Identity and Fiction, Urban Ecologies and Ephemeral Agents.

Identity and Fiction brings together projects that explore architecture as a form of storytelling and a way of interpreting territory. Within this framework, Smiljan Radic proposes to bring the logic of the travelling circus to Logroño through an ephemeral and collective architecture, while OFREIA’s research focuses on the memories associated with the Ebro River and historical bathing practices in the fluvial landscape. This section also includes the collaboration between CENTRAL and photographer Maxime Delvaux, which explores the relationship between architecture and representation through the observation of the built environment.

Urban Ecologies addresses the relationships between architecture, climate, matter and landscape in the contemporary city. The projects in this section range from architectures capable of generating microclimates to interventions that work with materials and resources rooted in the territory. These include the experimental pavilions by raumlabor, the civic garden for cultivation and seed exchange proposed by Sahra Hersi, and the earth-and-barrel architecture developed by Boltshauser and Garbizu Collar, which brings the climatic principles of La Rioja’s wine landscape into the urban space.

Ephemeral Agents, in turn, considers temporary architecture as a tool to activate social dynamics and open up new possibilities for the use of public space. This section includes projects such as Multiform by Gabriel Fontana, which rethinks the rules of sport as a way of exploring collective coexistence; the urban listening capsules developed by AAU Anastas; and spatial research on disability and architecture led by Ignacio G. Galán, Ozaeta.Fidalgo and Jordan Whitewood-Neal.

Over six days, Logroño will once again become a shared space for experimentation, where architecture, design and citizens come together to imagine other ways of inhabiting the city.