Open Calls: Concéntrico 2026

Concéntrico launches its 2025/2026 season by reinforcing its role as an Urban Innovation Laboratory — a collective space for creation that explores how architecture, design, and art can transform life in the city.

Since 2015, the Festival in Logroño has been the origin of the entire project: the meeting point where each year the ideas and collaborations developed throughout the season take shape. Today, its programme extends beyond the festival through open calls, a symposium, a publication, a permanent project, new international collaborations, and a series of book presentations, consolidating an active network that connects cities, practices, and disciplines.

The season will culminate with the twelfth edition of the Festival in Logroño, to be held from 18 to 23 June 2026.

Open Calls: From the Book to Action

Concéntrico launches three new international open calls that bring into practice the ideas developed in the book Concéntrico: Urban Innovation Laboratory (Park Books, 2025). The three —Ephemeral Agents, Urban Ecologies, and Identity and Fiction— introduce new formats to address urban transformations through three key strands that structure the publication: the social and temporal, the material and environmental, and the symbolic and narrative.

1. Ephemeral Agents

In collaboration with Distigmo, this programme explores how temporary interventions can act as agents of urban transformation. It includes a symposium in Zurich on 11 December 2025 combining exhibition, debate, and publication, with two open participation phases:

Call A — Exhibition & Publication: will select existing projects that have generated urban impact. Call B — Speculative Proposal & Materialization: an anonymous call inviting participants to imagine new strategies for ephemeral intervention to be materialized during the 2026 Festival. 2. Urban Ecologies

In continuity with Concéntrico’s ongoing work on climate and the city, this call seeks temporary and adaptive solutions to the effects of climate change. Participants are invited to propose light, reversible, and ecological structures that activate new forms of community-based urban ecologies. One proposal will be built during the 2026 Festival.

3. Identity and Fiction

A programme inviting participants to reinterpret the Paseo del Espolón —the central public space of Logroño— through imagination and storytelling. Participants can propose urban fictions and contemporary scenographies that transform its collective identity.

→ Read the guidelines and applyhttps://concentrico.es/en/open-calls/

The deadline for these new programmes is 13 January 2026, except for Call A of Ephemeral Agents for existing projects, which closes on 28 November 2025. All three calls are open to architects, designers, artists, and landscape architects interested in joining this collective laboratory experimenting with new forms of the city.

New Alliances

Concéntrico expands its international network with new collaborations, including Évora_27 —European Capital of Culture—, an academic programme in Algeria in partnership with the Instituto Cervantes, and the international book tour celebrating the project’s first decade, with stops in cities such as Prague, Porto, Zurich, Basel, and Berlin.

In parallel, the development of the Urban Climate Island, Concéntrico’s first permanent project, continues to advance. Based on the proposal Al agua patos by the team K37 LAB, the installation uses traditional strategies such as vegetation, water, and latticework to improve climatic comfort and rethink the social use of public spaces. Its construction, to be carried out by the City Council of Logroño throughout 2026, will mark the beginning of a new phase of the laboratory focused on developing replicable urban solutions that integrate sustainability, design, and community. Source: https://concentrico.es/en/open-calls/