Open Call: Close, Closer

Through 18 February, the 2013 Lisbon Architecture Triennale is accepting proposals for Crisis Buster Grants, Associated Projects, Student Prizes and a young architect Début Award.

Through 18 February, Close, Closer, the 2013 Lisbon Architecture Triennale is accepting proposals for Crisis Buster Grants, Associated Projects, Student Prizes and a young architect Début Award.

Led by chief curator Beatrice Galilee, the third Lisbon Architecture Triennale is initiating a discussion on the role of contemporary spatial practice. During the Triennale, architecture will be portrayed as a living, social and artistic force, charting its multiple cultural, political and aesthetic territories and offering a glimpse into its future.

From 12 September to 15 December 2013, a programme of experimental exhibitions, events, and performances around Lisbon, curated by Liam Young, Mariana Pestana and Jose Esparza, will explore architecture as a dialogue-driven practice integrating different disciplines and actors; a visionary practice that shapes and informs space that is social, cultural and aesthetic; space for engagement and identity; a practice of construction, as distinct from building; a method of strategy, thinking, debating and designing solutions.

The ambition of Close, Closer is to engage as many people as possible in this process, affording them the opportunity to make themselves heard and seen but also, and more importantly, to put at their disposal the means of realizing their ideas and pursuing their vision for a meaningful spatial practice.

In order to do so, the Triennale has put in place four fast tracks to participation, four challenges seeking to inspire and stimulate: A grant programme for civic projects, a student competition, an award for young architects and an open call for Associated Projects. These projects should respond to Close, Closer's general theme and aim to create a body of original projects with the potential to contribute directly to the city of Lisbon and its urban dynamic, and indirectly to all Triennale visitors and participants, who can themselves replicate them in other parts of the world.

Close, Closer aims to gather a wide audience around the shifting landscape of the contemporary architectural practice, exploring the impact and potential of its agency in social, political and human space. Through Close, Closer the audience is invited to discuss and debate the role of architecture by exhibitions which revisit the future, re-imagine the past and reframe the present.

More information on how to apply here.

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