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. The new edition will be held from 19 to 24 June 2025.
The three calls for proposals are open until 17 January 2025 at 23:59 hours (GMT+1).
The participation, which has a digital delivery format, is open internationally to all creators (individuals or collectives) who present intervention projects within any of the disciplines of architecture, landscape architecture, design and art:
Objects in the City, in collaboration with Romanian Design Week, seeks to reinterpret existing urban elements through temporary interventions that add new meanings and uses to public spaces in Logroño and Bucharest. Through a minimal design exercise, it seeks to generate a new scale in places such as squares and streets, promoting community interaction.
Third landscape, the proposal is based on Gilles Clément’s manifesto, which advocates the preservation of marginal and non-intervened spaces within the urban environment, with the aim of using a site as a space of opportunity and putting people’s lives at the centre of urban design, promoting an urbanism that integrates equity, safety and accessibility.
Picnic in the vineyard, in collaboration with Bodegas LAN, we are inspired by the tradition of the picnic and the after-dinner meal to rethink the spaces / tools associated with the act of eating, giving them a new meaning in the contemporary context. Eating, as a communal act, connects us with the local and the close, rediscovering the value of tradition in the natural environment.
Concéntrico will be responsible for the production and construction of the winning proposals in coordination with the teams selected in the competitions. These interventions will form part of the set of projects to be carried out in different locations in the city.
This call proposes the creation of an expanded intervention that reinterprets existing elements in the urban environment with a minimal design exercise. The temporary Object or set of Objects will add new meanings or uses to the spaces and/or elements to which they relate, such as lampposts, benches, tree surrounds… or others that may configure the public space, in order to give a new scale to these locations.
The winning proposal will be located in Logroño in small-scale squares such as Plaza de la Inmaculada, Plaza Virgen de la Esperancia or Plaza de Santa Ana, encouraging the community use they already house. In Bucharest, it will be located in the area around Calea Victoriei, within the Romanian Design Week work axis, around its main headquarters.
Concéntrico presents this new alliance with Romanian Design Week through architecture and design that will have a double result: in Romania from 16 to 25 May 2025, and in Spain from 19 to 24 June 2025.
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The aim of this competition is to create an installation on the site at 1-3-5 San Roque Street in Logroño that will form part of a strategy to recover sites in the city centre as spaces of opportunity to mitigate the heat wave effect.
The proposal is inspired by Gilles Clément’s Third Landscape manifesto, which advocates the preservation of marginal spaces in the city, promoting biodiversity, social interaction and the re-encounter with nature. Integrating these spaces into urban design not only promotes sustainability, but also creates places of rest and reflection, improving the quality of urban life.
The call seeks to put people at the centre of urban design, promoting equitable, safe and accessible urbanism, with a focus on proximity to key spaces such as schools, residences and services. The intervention seeks to promote a city of care, recognising the invisible and essential work of people, especially women, in their communities.
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This proposal is inspired by the tradition of the picnic and the after-dinner meal, spaces where wine, food and conversation intertwine naturally. We propose to rethink and redesign the places and tools that accompany this fundamental act, giving it a new meaning in the contemporary context.
Food, understood as a communal act, connects us with the local, the domestic and the close. In a globalised and accelerated world, this call invites us to explore how we eat and share food in common spaces, recovering the value of tradition and projecting it into the future from the vineyard.
It is proposed to act on the central path that vertebrates the Viña Lanciano estate from north to south and gives access to the secondary axes. Sheltered by the Sierra de Cantabria, and surrounded by a spectacular meander of the river Ebro, this unique 72-hectare site is made up of 22 plots.
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If you have any questions, you can write to us at participa@concentrico.es
