Concéntrico, in its aim to initiate new formats that respond to urban transformations, presents three calls Objects in the city, Third landscape and Picnic in the vineyard to participate in the festival in Logroño, from 19 to 24 June 2025.

Objects in the city

Logroño

Once the projects submitted had been studied and the appropriate deliberations had taken place, they decided that the winning project would be the one named under the slogan:

Reciclar la ecología by Abad (Iker Abad Aguirre, Jon Abad Aguirre) – Spain

Project description:

This project explores, from design practices, new relationships with the diverse non-human ecosystems that inhabit ‘our’ cities. The aim is to displace the hegemonic role of the circular economy in addressing the environmental crisis in order to propose other ways of ‘being green’. To create new imaginaries of a less utilitarian and less anthropocentric nature, as we believe that it is precisely these attitudes that have brought us to the situation we find ourselves in.

Inspired by the symbiotic relationships between living beings, we create elements that interact with many of the existing objects in our cities to form new ‘holobionts’. A tactic of great economy of means that avoids the need for new supports and highlights the enormous quantity of objects that inhabit the urban environment.

The work of design thus manifests itself in its most hybrid facet, deliberately focusing on relational action, rather than on the stylistic or aestheticising dimension to which product design is often limited.

Objects in the city

Bucharest

Once the projects submitted had been studied and the appropriate deliberations had taken place, they decided that the winning project would be the one named under the slogan:

¡Me Apunto! by Studio An-An (Zixuan Luo, Bella Wu) – USA

Project description:

Cities are living ecosystems where every element can play an active role. Among these, rows of street trees stand as silent guardians of public spaces, offering shade, oxygen, and tranquility amid bustling urban life. “¡Me Apunto!”highlights an essential feeling in the civic realm — a sense of participation and companionship — by creating a new bond between pedestrian and green elements in the city.

The modular design features a series of plug-in benches with dedicated cutouts for trees, transforming each  seating area into an intimate interaction with nature, where the tree becomes a seated companion. Its flexibility, modularity, and adaptability allow it to seamlessly integrate into diverse urban landscapes, from bustling plazas to quiet neighborhood corners. By encouraging small yet profound interactions with nature, this initiative rekindles affection for the urban environment, transforming public spaces into a living canvas of connection and shared moments.

Due to the quality of the works submitted, this jury considers 14 finalist projects to be noteworthy:

FINALISTS

a „back and forth” between heaven and earth —DSBA+A (Alexandra MARINESCU, Matei CONTOLORU, Diana BADICU) — Romania

AE02 — Anda Zota, Elena Viziteu, Cosmin Florea, Liana Vasiliu — Romania

AN OBSERVATORY MODULE — Moritz Kreft, Gil Grassmann — Austria

Diga? — cruz.atelier (Oscar Cruz + Paula Moraga) — Spain

DONDE CABEN 2 CABEN 3 — Alberto Vallejo, Thomas Charil — Spain

Hello — Adrian Andrei, Ana Vlaiculescu — Romania

HER75 — Onomiau (Noël Picaper) — France

la lámpara — CODOO STUDIO (JOSE DAVID COSTA, SERGIO ORTIZ, MARIA VICTORIA PUERTA, RALUCA BOBARU) — Spain

Parásitos — albastru azul (Daniel Angarita, Alina Stoica) — Italy

pillowtalk — Roberto Mancilla, Javier Jiménez Borona — Spain

Street Light Theater — studio circOlar (Muzi Li, Ye (Jacee) Tong, Ruifei Hou, Kehong Song) — Denmark

Too fascinated to be afraid — POST OFFICE (maría amador y/o julio sánchez) — Spain

Urban Symphony – A Shared Habitat for Birds, Cats, and Humans — Deniz Ipek Karatas, Pelinsu Sahin — Spain

Usile-puertas — Pico Tres Estudio (Víctor Blanco, Lucía Santos, Beatriz Salido) — Spain

Third landscape

Once the projects submitted had been studied and the appropriate deliberations had taken place, they decided that the winning project would be the one named under the slogan:

La Batalla del Jardinero Planetario by Borneo (Antonio De Paola, Flavio Mancuso, Antonio Seghini) – Germany

Project description:

The project takes shape from the definition of the ‘planetary garden’ outlined by Gilles Clément in the Third Landscape Manifesto and The Planetary Gardener. According to Clément, the ‘planetary garden’ represents a universal principle of care and respect for biodiversity, in which each individual assumes the role of ‘gardener’: humanity as a whole serves as custodian and guardian of the countless forms of life that inhabit the planet. Diversity, in this vision, guarantees our future, as it encompasses the capacity to regenerate and adapt to change, offering humanity a reservoir of ecological and cultural possibilities. From this perspective, the city (A) – understood as the home of humanity and, consequently, of the planetary gardener – becomes a privileged space in which to explore new ways of living and caring for the territory. Conceived as an allegory of the ‘planetary gardener’s veranda’ (B), the installation functions as an open terrace over the ‘planetary garden’ (C): an urban void transformed into an enclave of the Third Landscape, where biodiversity is protected and cared for, not only for its intrinsic value, but also for its capacity to mitigate the effects of climate change. As an educational device, the veranda invites visitors to discover Gilles Clément’s ideas and to become ‘planetary gardeners’ themselves. Through play and active participation, the realisation of one’s own role in the preservation of adequate living conditions for the planet takes shape. In this way, the project transforms an ordinary open space into a living experience of education, collective responsibility and shared management. At the end of their visit, we hope that participants will recognise the potential of a new way of life. This renewed awareness can spark a collective commitment to care for our ‘planetary garden’, fostering a more sustainable and inclusive future for all.

Due to the quality of the work submitted, this jury considers 15 finalist projects to be noteworthy:

FINALISTS

ATLAS — Collectif (In)visible (Gaspard Basnier, Leo Diehl-Carboni, Lawan-Kila Toe) x Espace Disponible (Hugues Droesch, Robert Harding, Paul Mazzalovo) — France

Beyond The Wall — Atelier Coevo (Vittorio Asperti, Martino Bonfioli) — United Kingdom

boules salvajes — Sabotage Practice (Valentina Noce, Francesco Dini) — Italy

El Portal de San Roque — Dodds Estudio (Lucía Mariotto, Nina Dodds, Candela Cwi, Agustina Andrade, Matías Germaná) — Argentina

Garden_ing — Cindy Duan, Matija Kraljic — Belgium

La cabaña, el puente y la barca — Covadonga Blasco Veganzones — Spain

Labyrinth — Brandon Lawry — United States

olza / pigolza — vela collective (Vittoria Berno, Enrico Gobbi, Lemuel Pedrotti, Anna Polloniato) — Italy

paisaje des(h)echo — Pedro Escoriza Torralbo — Spain

Parque Traseros — Kakuru Oda — Japan

PLAYGROUND PLEC — Rui Mendes, Alessandro Sartore — Portugal

SOMBRA — MOtU (Caterina Ribolla, Michele Pallaoro) — Italy

Tactile Soil — Izabel Barboni, Marília Franco, Marina Portolano, Enzo Machado, Lívia Rosatto e Paulo Manoel Tolezano —  Brazil

The Embrace — Studio An-An (Zixuan Luo, Bella Wu) — United States

Think global, act local! — Federico Fiorino — The Netherlands

Picnic in the vineyard

Once the projects submitted had been studied and the appropriate deliberations had taken place, they decided that the winning project would be the one named under the slogan:

Earth Cooking by JMBAD (Joseph Melka, Balthazar Auguste-Dormeuil) — France

Project description:

As a living installation, Earth Cooking is both a gathering space and a process: a long communal table where participants are invited to use the local clay to craft their own ceramics, which becomes the vessel for the communal meal prepared on site.

It offers to reimagine communal dining as a full-circle experience of shared labor, deeply rooted in the local environment. By working and dining with the estate’s clay, it offers a renewed connection with the land and the terroir.

Throughout history, clay has been a fundamental material for cooking, eating, and storing food due to its natural abundance and versatility. Ancient civilizations, such as the Egyptians, Greeks, and Chinese, crafted clay pots and ovens for baking bread, fermenting grains, and preserving liquids, recognizing clay’s insulating and moisture-retaining properties. From the Andean pachamanca to North African tagines, clay cookware not only enhanced flavor through slow cooking but also connected culinary practices to the land itself.

Following the meal, the pottery is then returned to the soil thanks to the slow baking method used. This continuous flow from the earth to the table, and back to the earth, makes our proposal a fully circular system, as everything that is taken is returned.

This meal celebrates local produce, craftsmanship and sustainability, ultimately blurring the line between maker, cook and guest. It invites people to get their hands dirty, to shape and be shaped by the environment, and to rediscover the slow, grounding pleasure of making something together—from the ground up.

Due to the quality of the work submitted, this jury considers 15 finalist projects to be noteworthy:

FINALISTS

AD INFINITUM — Anna Ribera, Leire Román, Carla Sabarich — Spain

Al fresco — Joshua Domínguez Ruelas — Mexico

DÓNDE COMEMOS — COLLECTIVE X (Miguel Ivan Hernandez Cobos, Eduardo Romero Garcia, Katarzyna Dominiak, Mauricio Cortes Mariño) — Mexico

El Arte del Picnic — Juliette Gilson & Nika van Berkel — The Netherlands

EL MANTELITO — Cristian Araya Quinteros — Chile

escena de un picnic — knot atelier — Romania

Fort | Picnic bastions — 1810 (Georgiana Cobuz, Anamaria Lazar, Nicoleta Simina) — Romania

in the shade on a fine day — Atelier Maria York (York Bing Oh, Małgorzata Maria Olchowska) —  Belgium

Juego de mesa — Patricia Vázquez Sáez, Covadonga Canellada Vigil, María Rodríguez Grela, Sara Osorio Santín — Spain

Periscopio —  Francisco Carrión — Chile

PIQ NIQ QUILT — Pyry Kuismin — Finland

sobremesa — brasebin terrisse (Matthieu Brasebin, Elisabeth Terrisse de Botton) — Belgium

Tabula Rasa —  Rolando Girodengo, Mariana Treviño Romero, Ana Paulina de la Cruz, Dafne Medellín, Mónica Mendoza, Natalia Oviedo, Grace Martinez —  Mexico

The Vineda Gathering —  Weihao Yin — Spain

Una mesa para 40 personas — Sanber Studio (Agustín Vila Centurión,Belén Marzal Ruano) — Spain