LOGROÑO INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN AMONG THE BEST CULTURAL PROPOSALS IN SPAIN

The eighth edition of Concéntrico expands the usual focus of the festival, the Historic Centre of Logroño, and explores new urban practices

The new edition of Concéntrico will bring together more than 100 participants from 1 to 6 September, with visitors, guests and 20 teams that will develop interventions in Logroño: 23 actions, 100 chairs, workshops and exhibitions that will transform the city by proposing new collective uses that strengthen the idea of community in public space.

Since 2015, the festival has carried out 91 urban installations in its seven editions, to which the following teams will be added to the proposals for Concéntrico 08 in 2022: Konstantin Grcic, matali crasset, Izaskun Chinchilla, Associates Architecture, Piovenefabi, Tudor Vlasceanu, SKULL studio, Germane Barnes, Rintala Eggertsson Architects, BUDCUD, Tableau, Yemail Architecture, Pawel Grobelny, Inventaires #3, Dallas + Pool is cool, AAA, Ander López + Sarai Olabarrieta, Collective Xand the Guest Schools withGonzalo Herrero + Pati Santos – Central Saint Martins and Clara Alonso, Marta Basterra and Mikel Aguerrea – Escuela Superior de Diseño de La Rioja.

The eighth edition of Concéntrico expands the usual focus of the festival, the Historic Centre of Logroño, and explores new urban practices by taking the proposals to locations that expand it in a constant listening that evolves to continue to raise debates that look at the city itself.

Locations that connect the festival with new landscapes such as Monte Cantabria, a viewpoint over the city, or the river Ebro next to the riverbed; unique urban spaces with which to work on the scale of proximity such as La Rosaleda del Paseo del Espolón or Obispo Bustamante street; or the new urban areas and spaces in transformation such as the Parque Felipe VI or the empty lot in Calle Marqués de San Nicolás.

The digital version of the Concéntrico 08 programme is now available with meetings, workshops, conversations and exhibitions. In addition, the schedule of activities by days and their booking is available on the website in order to don’t miss the contents that will reflect on the city, architecture and ways of relating to each other at a time as relevant as the present.

The full programme is adding new international visitors to its eighth edition with the AC/E Programme for the Internationalisation of Spanish Culture and will be taking part in the Assembly of the European Association for Architectural Education organised by the ETSAM on the theme ‘Towards a New European Bauhaus: Challenges in Design Education & Research’ and the plenary session of the CSCAE Consejo Superior de Colegios de Arquitectos de España to be held at Logroño town hall.