Goethe-Institut programme that promotes the development of creative cities. Its aim is to transform the city into an ideal ecosystem for creativity and culture.

As part of the collective component of the festival, several proposals incorporate work with educational centres in their development and design methodology.

Find all the venues and spaces for the interventions, meetings, exhibitions and activities of Concéntrico 09, from 27 April to 2 May 2023 in the city.

An inhabitable tribute to the soils of the city and of its territory, a sequence of mineral filled rooms, where to play, dig, or draw on the ground itself.

Studio Ossidiana
Plaza de San Bartolomé
Intervention

The proposal emphasizes nature’s presence in the city centre, with the help of a local ornithologist association, and enriches its biodiversity by introducing birdhouses.

Hollmen Reuter Sandman Architects
Glorieta del Doctor Zubía
Intervention

Resignifying the Plaza Sin Nombre, a place that has not been “baptised”, a place claimed by the neighbourhood as a meeting place and identity space for the different cultures.

Camille Walala
Plaza Sin Nombre
Intervention

PUL, the new urban swimming pool in Logroño, aims to enclose a piece of square to create a soft public space inside it, a comfortable space for leisure and care.

meii + Clara Torregrosa + Gabriel Millán
Plaza Escuelas Trevijano
Intervention

A red carpet transitions from the landscape to a domestic found space, behind the curtain a raised table appears, where visitors gather to share an experience.

Jennyfher Alvarado + Alvaro Gonzalez
Viña Lanciano
Intervention

A statement of peace and mutual understanding, it shows the power of music to bring people together as well as it means to celebrate the melodies and rhythms of a particular place.

Daniel Hambly
Parque Felipe VI
Intervention

A proposal turning digital social media into analogue. It stands as a mobile device offering people a forum in public space to speak out in front of a physical audience.

Didier Fiúza Faustino
Paseo del Espolón
Intervention

A poetic, architectural, sculptural and performative camp, organised by the five geometric figures of Le Corbusier’s “Lección de Roma”.

Os Espacialistas
Plaza del Mercado
Intervention

The pavilion is the first project of reinforced fabrics, an investigation into the structural possibilities of textiles. A self-supporting surface of great slenderness and lightness.

Paloma Cañizares
Patio COAR
Intervention

Rigid linear elements float weightless in space held in tension by steel cables or rope. We propose a sustainable prototype for a shared space.

Barkow – Leibinger
Surrounding area Church of Santiago
Intervention

An improvised tennis court in the middle of the Town Hall square. Pista Central is a short-lived exercise that consists of bringing a tennis court to a public space.

Marc Morro
Town Hall Square
Intervention

An ode to the fruit, the land and the people who help bring it to the table: dedicated to strawberry pickers and seasonal farm workers across the EU.

Oana Stănescu
Plaza de Santa Ana
Intervention

The fountain was the last link in the art of taming water and bringing it into the city, before it reached the tap in the house. It was a symbol of urbanity.

Un Parell d’Arquitectes
Plaza de San Agustín
Intervention

Students and teachers are considering an “assault” on the school, understanding the relationship between the buildings that make it up and its immediate surroundings.

Recetas Urbanas
IES Batalla de Clavijo
Installation

A large billboard that represents and rewrites the city. Like a 1:1 paper souvenir cut-out, the giant drawing brings history and materiality to life.

Design With Company
Plaza del Revellín
Intervention

A playful space that takes us back to childhood and play. It functions as a high table where people can gather and children can play in and around it.

Architecture Uncomfortable Workshop
Museo de La Rioja
Intervention

The intervention deals with stories that configure the mental map of the citizens about the public space. A tribute to the Catfish, the animal and the symbol to the river Ebro.

Pool is Cool + Dallas
Parque del Ebro
Intervention

Following in the footsteps of such important designers as Scher and Myerscough, the exterior space is modified through a giant roof with the vocation of being infinite.

ESDIR
Escuela Superior de Diseño de La Rioja
Intervention

A collective practice with local organisations that promotes the construction of urban artefacts through the demolition and transformation of waste materials.

Hypereden + Frantoio Sociale
Paseo del Espolón
Cities Ahead

The mobile library is a process of analysis and enhancement of the local knowledge of the citizens that will travel around the city and temporarily activate different public spaces.

catalystas collective
Rafael Azcona Library
Cities Ahead

An artistic walk whose only compass will be the collection of chewing gum stuck on the ground. A drift through the map of the city and how we communicate in it.

Carlos Herraiz + Vanesa Peña
Paseo del Espolón
Cities Ahead

In a development shared with Concéntrico since the beginning of the festival, Bodegas LAN presents a new wine that demonstrates its commitment to the cultural development of La Rioja and especially of Logroño.

Garnica wood plays a fundamental role in the circular economy as it is renewable, recyclable, reusable and biodegradable. From La Rioja, it promotes the use of local wood and local plantations.

In Concéntrico 09 we extend our collaboration with Benjamin Moore, the American brand of premium water-based paints with more than 3500 shades and 7 gloss levels, allowing you to create unique interiors.