The International Architecture Festival Concéntrico presents the daily agenda of its new season in Logroño, where the Festival will take place from June 19th to 24th. A season in which Concéntrico offers a renewed perspective that reaffirms its role as an international platform of reference in the transformation of public space through design, architecture, and thought with forays into cities like Milan, Bucharest, Madrid, Barcelona, Dammam, Huesca, and Logroño.
Concéntrico structures its proposal in Logroño around four thematic axes that guide the interventions and activities of the Festival: Food, as a collective practice and of coexistence; Climate, from circular design and environmental challenges; Water, focused on the recovery of river spaces and the responsible use of resources; and Social processes and rituals, which activate the common, memory, and interaction between cultures and traditions.
Within each of these axes, specific projects and installations will transform squares, fountains, roundabouts, the banks of the Ebro River, or streets in the historic center of Logroño into spaces for meeting, playing, resting, and reflecting.
Food: The Ring dinner, Ser Miento, Earth Cooking, Roothed in warmth, Everyone at the table.
Climate: A third of life, The battle of the planetary gardener, All lines are discontinuous, Design your own community garden, Work hut, Peaks.
Water: Monumental Splash, Round about baths, Inhabiting the Ebro, Ebro Fandango.
Social processes and rituals: 111 Lampposts, Heretics, Backstage Fireplace, Mobile bench, Wild Creatures, Crop Top, Recycle ecology, Carpet.
Throughout the days of the Festival, each intervention will come to life thanks to the different workshops, meetings, presentations, meals, or festivities scheduled.
A sauna in the middle of a traffic roundabout? A party on a winding 30-meter table? Sleeping under the stars in a dream temple hidden in a secret garden? Designing your own garden? Exploring the banks of the Ebro like an urban safari? Molding raw ceramics in a vineyard or attending a performative dinner where design and cuisine face off in four rounds? The proposals of this edition turn Logroño into a living laboratory where coexisting, cultivating, listening, sitting together, playing, and rethinking our relationship with the public, the natural, and the common.
FOOD
The territory, agriculture, and collective tables activate new forms of coexistence in public space. In the vineyards, a workshop with raw clay and ancestral techniques connects earth, fire, and cuisine in a shared ritual. A performative dinner in four rounds pits design and gastronomy around a large circular table under a solidarity format. An edible tapestry celebrates the flavors of a Saudi summer through a sensory installation that transforms the landscape. Vine shoots are reused to create a large-scale urban convivium that provides shade and memory to a square in the old town. And on Gran Vía, a winding 30-meter table bursts in as a radical invitation to sit, share, and celebrate hospitality without hierarchies.
CLIMATE
Public space as an ecological infrastructure is activated with resilient gardens, participatory workshops, porous installations, and reused materials. A refuge in the historic center becomes a dream temple where sharing dreams and resting from urban heat. An abandoned lot is transformed into a living garden through continuous care as a political gesture.
In the park, an open structure invites you to walk through the landscape with your body, between fragmented lines and pauses. On a large table, families and children imagine urban gardens that feed both people and biodiversity, designing with pencils and stickers spaces for meeting, playing, and cultivating. And in a square, an open workshop reuses materials from past editions, tests circular production forms, and shares real-time design processes.
WATER
Water as urban material, a space for meeting and river memory articulates interventions that reactivate its playful, ritual, and territorial dimension. A monumental fountain becomes a walkable sculpture, celebrating water as a spectacle and collective play. A roundabout trapped by traffic is transformed into a public sauna, advocating for the body, care, and intimacy in the city center. The banks of the Ebro welcome a process of listening and sensorial activation of the river as a living infrastructure, crossed by memories, stories, and urban ecologies. And in an open-air workshop, the body and movement become tools to explore, map, and reinterpret the riverbank as a landscape of shared exploration.
SOCIAL PROCESSES AND SHARED KNOWLEDGE
Public space as a stage for the common, the everyday, and the symbolic. A constellation of reused lampposts creates a circle of light in the heart of the city, celebrating urban cycles and material memory. An open house hosts debates, recitals, and parties that question the margins of the cultural system.
A temporary home in a square collects intimate gestures around the fire, advocating for warmth as emotional architecture. A bench invites you to sit, converse, and activate new connections between strangers. Recovered marine networks and corks become a collective installation that intertwines artisanal techniques and territorial sustainability.
In a square, an intervention proposes shelters for non-human species and activates an urban ecosystem with minimal gestures, games, and actions that celebrate shared life.
CONCÉNTRICO: URBAN INNOVATION LABORATORY
In celebration of the tenth anniversary of the festival held last year, Concéntrico: Urban Innovation Laboratory is presented in this edition, a publication edited by Nick Axel and Javier Peña Ibáñez, and published by Park Books. The literary event will take place on Paseo del Espolón on Friday, June 20 at 8:30 pm.
The book gathers a selection of 86 projects carried out between 2015 and 2024, offering a critical and visual perspective on how architecture and design can activate the common, rethink the everyday, and transform our cities.
Based on more than 150 interventions commissioned during this period, the festival consolidates itself as an open urban laboratory, a platform that links designers and citizens around key issues such as identity, temporality, ecology, domesticity, or play.
The presentation will feature the participation of its editors, who will share the process of creating the book and reflect on the knowledge generated in this decade of research in public space.
Concéntrico is organized by the Cultural Foundation of Architects of La Rioja, together with Javier Peña Ibáñez, promoter of the initiative, in collaboration with the City Council of Logroño, the Government of La Rioja, and more than 30 institutions from around the world.
