Interventions
Our interventions are designed to provoke dialogue, encourage participation, and inspire action around pressing issues.
Bringing together diverse voices and perspectives, Territorial Agency fosters a more inclusive and democratic public discourse about the rapid transformations of inhabited territories.
2024
Our Time on Earth
Peabody Essex Museum
2023
Why the Anthropocene Baffles Architecture
AA Architectural Association
2023
Power
CIVA
2023
Next Renaissance
University of Applied Arts Vienna, EIT Culture & Creativity
10 - 12 October 2023
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University of Applied Arts Vienna, Austria
European Culture and Creativity Days2023
Lecture on Anthropocene
Chalmers
2023
Spanish Pavilion: Foodscapes
La Biennale di Venezia
2023
Kick-off event - How heavy is a City?
Lisbon Triennale
First Messy Studio featuring: Shaul Bassi, Head of Studies of Environmental Humanities at the Ca'Foscari University; Mónica Bello, Head of Arts at CERN; Andreia Garcia, Curator of the Portuguese Pavilion; and Lela Rekhviashvili, Researcher at Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography; and Mark Williams, Professor of Palaeontology at the University of Leicester. Moderated by Territorial Agency, with opening and closing remarks by Tinatin Gurgenidze, Co-curator of the Georgian Pavilion, and Manuel Henriques, Executive Director of the Triennale.
15 September 2023
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15:00
Georgian Pavilion Venice Biennale
Lisbon Triennale2023
EIT Culture and Creativity Strategic Topic Groups
MSC, EIT Culture & Creativity
2023
Next Renaissance Launch event
Ars Electronica, EIT Culture & Creativity
Franz Giessbl (DE), Lucia Ronchetti (IT), John Palmesino (IT), Rachel Armstrong (IE), Alistair Hudson (GB), Charles Landry, Victoria Vesna (US)
8 September 2023
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12:00 CET
Ars Electronica, Linz
Ars Electronica2023
Founding Lab Summer School
IDSA + Ars Electronica Founding Lab
Territorial Agency workshop on remote sensing
31 August - 1 September 2023
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Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria
Ars Electronica2023
Oceans in Transformation
Tomorrowland
2023
Love Tomorrow
Tomorrowland
2023
Global Forum: Conscious City
AA Architectural Association
2023
Creative roundtable: Arts and technology for societal value
EU Spain Presidency, EIT Culture & Creativity
ARS Electronica / STARTS Initiative (Veronika Liebl), + ZKM (Alistair Hudson) + HLRS/ MSC (Bastian Koller + Uwe Wössner + Matthias Hauser) + Fundación Épica (Fran Iglesias) + Territorial Agency (John Palmesino) + WAAG (Marleen Sticker)
11 - 13 July 2023
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11:50 CET
Disseny Hub Barcelona – Museo del Diseño de Barcelona
EU23MSC2023
Transitional Territories lecture series
TU Delft
2023
Our Time on Earth / Pour Demain
Musée de la civilisation
2023
More-Than-Planet symposium: Ocean-Space-Ocean
ISEA 2023
2023
Biosphere in Behind the Green Door
Oslo Architecture Triennale
2023
The European Platform - The Next Renaissance
ZKM, EIT Culture & Creativity
2023
Territorial Agency to curate seventh edition
Lisbon Triennale
2023
Finding New Planetary Imaginaries and Actions
Waag
2023
Ruptured Landscapes: IKA Lecture series
Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
2023
Epistemic Artefacts - A dialogical reflection on design research
AADR
2022
Starts4Water symposium
EU Commission
2022
Planeta B
Vysoká škola uměleckoprůmyslová v Praze
2022
Smart Agri-Cultures for Sustainable Futures
Onassis Foundation, S+T+ARTS Forum
2022
50th Anniversary Event: Architecture and the Institutions of the European Union
Birkbeck’s Jean Monnet Chair in Parliamentary Democracy and European Integration
2022
Climate Peace lecture
Biennale Warszawa
2022
Seeing Stones and Spaces Beyond the Valley
Biennale Warszawa
Sensible Zone - Liminal technologies
3 June – 17 July 2022
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Warsaw
Biennale Warszawa 1Biennale Warszawa 22022
Our Time on Earth
Barbican
2022
A vision for architecture education and shared leadership
AA Architectural Association
2022
Radical Futures
Tasmeem Doha International Art and Design Conference
2022
International summit organised by President Macron
One Ocean Summit
2022
Climate Peace in lecture series
IAAC
2022
World of Art - Art and Climate Change
Thames&Hudson
2021
Studium Generale
Gerrit Rietveld Academie
Lecture series moderated by Nick Axel
24 November 2021
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14:00-16:00 CET
Amsterdam
Gerrit Rietveld Academie2021
Ecologies of our global commons
La Biennale di Venezia
Meetings on Architecture by Hashim Sarkis
15 November 2021
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19:00 CET
Teatro Piccolo, Arsenale
La Biennale2021
Architecture in the Anthropocene
TU Berlin, Deutches Architektur Zentrum
2021
Keynote Sustainability Days 2021
Mälardalen University
2021
A Compendium of Climate Literacies
Cove Park
2021
Post carbon material practices – realities in the age of climate crisis
Stuttgart State Academy of Art and Design
2021
Cry of the Lost
Patti Smith
Visuals for performance at COP26 Glasgow
31 October 2021
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19:30 GMT
Theatre Royal, Glasgow
Pathway to Paris2021
Reassemble lab: Sound Ecologies
Fiber
2021
S+T+ARTS Day
Frankfurter Buchmesse
2021
Institution Building in podcast interview by Nikolaus Hirsch
CIVA
2021
Umwelt lecture
EPFL
2021
SNUDAAE Lectures
Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism
2021
How art-tech/science projects can help tackle climate
S+T+ARTS
2021
Non-extractive architecture
V-A-C Zattere
2021
NEB Venezia conference
Bauhaus of the Seas
2021
Where are we going to live?
Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism
Crossroads building the resilient city curated by Dominic Perrault
16 September – 31 October 2021
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Seoul
SBAU 2021 Crossroads2021
Art Thinking Forum by Hakuhodo
Ars Electronica
2021
S+T+ARTS Deep Dive
Ars Electronica
2021
S+T+ARTS Prize 2021 Exhibition
Ars Electronica
2021
S+T+ARTS Talk with Lucas Evers
S+T+ARTS
2021
DeTalk
Kurula Varkey Design Forum, KVDF 2021
2021
S+T+ARTS PRIZE 2021
European Commission
Grand prize of the European Commission honoring innovation in Technology, Industry and Society stimulated by the Arts awarded to Oceans in Transformation
15 June 2021
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2021
Keep oil in the ground
VOLUME 58
2021
Sensible Zone
La Biennale di Venezia
2021
Ocean Uni *8 – Ocean as a Method
TBA21-Academy
2021
Ocean Uni *7 – Mediterranean Enclosures
TBA21-Academy
2021
Ocean Uni *6 – Sounding Borderless Entanglements
TBA21-Academy
2021
Abecedarium - the Ocean in Sign Language
Ocean Space, Italian National Agency for the Deaf
2021
Ocean Uni *5 – Fluid Territories
TBA21-Academy
2021
Ocean Uni *4 – Deep Sea Mining: the Future of Greenwashing
TBA21-Academy
2021
Ocean Uni *3 – On Ocean Labor
TBA21-Academy
2021
La fotografia come spazio di negoziazione
Accademia di architettura, USI
2021
Ocean Uni *2 – Ocean Care: Caring for the Commons
TBA21-Academy
Rémi Parmentier, Clement Yow Mulalap, Pirate Care, Daniela Zyman
3 February 2021
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16:00-18:00 CET
Ocean Space, Chiesa di San Lorenzo, Venice and online
TBA212021
Ocean Uni *1 – Ocean Justice: People vs. Arctic Oil
TBA21-Academy
2021
Oceans Rising – A Companion to Territorial Agency: Oceans in Transformation
Sternberg Press
2020
Ocean Uni #8 – The Humboldt Current: Protecting the Commons
TBA21-Academy
John Palmesino, Mark Williams, Jan Zalasiewicz, Sandor Mulsow, Camila Marambio, Jeanne Penjan Lassus
16 December 2020
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16:00-18:00 CET
Ocean Space, Chiesa di San Lorenzo, Venice and online
Ocean-Archive2020
Ocean Uni #7 – Metropolitan Asia: Cities-to-come in Metropolitan Asia
TBA21-Academy
John Palmesino, Andrés Jaque, Alvin Li and Julian Junyuan Feng, Irwan Ahmett and Tita Salina, Elisa Giuliano, Jeanne Penjan Lassus
2 December 2020
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16:00-18:00 CET
Ocean Space, Chiesa di San Lorenzo, Venice and online
Ocean-Archive2020
Ocean Uni #6 – Indian Ocean Gyre: Ecosystems in Transformation
TBA21-Academy
John Palmesino, Himali Singh Soin, Debjani Bhattacharyya, Marina Tabassum, Shaina Anand, Barbara Casavecchia, Alexandra Boghosian, Pietro Consolandi and Fiona Middleton
25 November 2020
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16:00-18:00 CET
Ocean Space, Chiesa di San Lorenzo, Venice and online
Ocean-Archive2020
You and I don’t Live on the Same Planet
Taipei Biennial
Curated by Bruno Latour and Martin Guinard
21 November 2020 - 14 March 2021
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Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan
Taipei Bienniale-flux2020
Between practice, research and teaching
Chalmers
2020
Vertical Atlas – world.orbit
Nieuwe Instituut
2020
Ocean Uni #5 – Mid Atlantic: Mnemonic Oceans: Monsoons, Memory, And Atlantic Movements
TBA21-Academy
John Palmesino, Donna Kukama, Jeremiah Ikongio, Zakkiyah Iman Jackson, Palin Ansusinha (Ghost in the Field), Nchongayi Christantus Begealawuh
11 November 2020
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16:00-18:00 CET
Ocean Space, Chiesa di San Lorenzo, Venice and online
Ocean-Archive2020
Ocean Uni #4 – Equatorial Pacific: Pacific Futures
TBA21-Academy
John Palmesino, Elizabeth DeLoughrey, Jaimey Hamilton Faris, Joe Riley, Sophie Chao
28 October 2020
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16:00-18:00 CET
Ocean Space, Chiesa di San Lorenzo, Venice and online
Ocean-Archive2020
Ocean Uni #3 – Aquapolitics along the Gulf Stream
TBA21-Academy
John Palmesino, Anne McClintock, Jamie Allen, Britt Kramvig, Andrea Storto
14 October 2020
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16:00-18:00 CET
Ocean Space, Chiesa di San Lorenzo, Venice and online
Ocean-Archive2020
Ocean art space in Venice church confronts city's perilous battle with climate change
The Art Newspaper
2020
Ocean Uni #2 – North Sea to Red Sea, Revisiting the “longue durée” of the Mediterranean
TBA21-Academy
Territorial Agency, Shaul Bassi, Georg Umgiesser, Alessandra di Maio, Invernomuto
30 September 2020
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16:00-18:00 CET
Ocean Space, Chiesa di San Lorenzo, Venice and online
Ocean-Archive2020
Ocean Uni #1 – Methodology, Data Sets and the Sensible Zone
TBA21-Academy
Territorial Agency, Daniela Zyman, Markus Reymann, Astrida Neimanis, Francesca Thyssen-Bornemisza, Nancy Knowlton, Joe Riley, Fiona Middleton, Vicki Ferrini
16 September 2020
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16:00-18:00 CET
Ocean Space, Chiesa di San Lorenzo, Venice and online
Ocean-Archive2020
How a new art exhibition in Venice is shining a light on the planet's battle against rising oceans
Telegraph
2020
Oceans in Transformation and essay on Territorial Agency by Anselm Franke in The Commissions Book
Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Sternberg Press
2020
Il «codice etico dell’architettura» secondo John Palmesino
AD Italia
2020
Territorial Agency: Oceans in transformation
Ocean-Archive
2020
Unfoldings. A Research Dossier on Seven Trajectories of Territorial Agency: Oceans in Transformation
TBA21–Academy
2020
Messy Studio #12—Mediterranean Deep Space: Post-continental perspectives
TBA21–Academy
David Abulafia, Shaul Bassi, Jane Da Mosto, Luigi Cavaleri, Pietro Consolandi; Elisa Giuliano; Fiona Middleton; Pietro Scammacca, Louise Carver and Barbara Casavecchia, Territorial Agency, Daniela Zyman, Markus Reymann
28 August 2020
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Online
Ocean-ArchiveSession2020
Four Cautionary Tales from the Future Asian Metropolis
e-flux architecture series Oceans
2020
Territorial Agency: Oceans in transformation
Ocean Space
Commissioned by TBA21–Academy
27 August – 29 November 2020, 3 May – 21 August 2021
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Ocean Space, Chiesa di San Lorenzo, Venice
Ocean Space 2020Ocean Space 20212020
Territorial Agency: Oceans in transformation
e-flux
2020
Underwater (Un)Sound
e-flux architecture series Oceans
2020
Critical Zones – Terrestrial University
ZKM
John Palmesino, Ann-Sofi Rönnskog, Markus Reymann, Francesca Thyssen-Bornemisza, Bruno Latour, Peter Weibel and Bettina Korintenberg
30 July 2020
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17:00 CET
ZKM online
ZKM2020
Messy Studio #11—So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish—the Humboldt Current
TBA21–Academy
Mark Williams, Jan Zalasiewicz, Sandor Mulsow, Irene Kopelman, Camila Marambio, Territorial Agency, Markus Reymann, Daniela Zyman, Louise Carver, Nchongayi Christantus Begealawuh, Fiona Middleton, Joe Riley and Pietro Scammacca
24 July 2020
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Online
Ocean-Archive