Every Saturday, the Sinel de Cordes Palace, the Triennale's cultural centre, opens its doors welcoming everyone to visit the space and discover the dozens of titles available at our bookshop, grouped by thematic affinities. The visit can be extended in our cafeteria, with light meals, drinks or coffee to enjoy at a relaxed pace in the courtyard. 

Follow our agenda to find out more about the programme.

Every Saturday, the Sinel de Cordes Palace, the Triennale's cultural centre, opens its doors welcoming everyone to visit the space and discover the dozens of titles available at our bookshop, grouped by thematic affinities. The visit can be extended in our cafeteria, with light meals, drinks or coffee to enjoy at a relaxed pace in the courtyard. 

Follow our agenda to find out more about the programme.

Over the course of this weekend, 77 spaces open their doors to the public — more than half for the first time — from kitchens and back-of-house spaces to sites of production, distribution, trade and waste management. Come and discover the city through guided visits, five new urban walks, a sound walk, accessible visits, the Plus Programme and the Junior Programme's activities.

About Open House Lisboa

Since 2012, Open House Lisboa has opened more than five hundred spaces across the city to the public, free of charge. Over a weekend in May, public buildings, private homes, historic monuments and new constructions become visitable, offering a chance to discover Lisbon's architecture from the inside.

This initiative is part of Open House Worldwide, an international network founded in 1992 by Victoria Thornton to bring people closer to architecture. The network spans more than sixty cities worldwide — including London, New York, Buenos Aires, Lagos and Seoul — drawing over two million visitors each year.

Over the course of this weekend, 77 spaces open their doors to the public — more than half for the first time — from kitchens and back-of-house spaces to sites of production, distribution, trade and waste management. Come and discover the city through guided visits, five new urban walks, a sound walk, accessible visits, the Plus Programme and the Junior Programme's activities.

About Open House Lisboa

Since 2012, Open House Lisboa has opened more than five hundred spaces across the city to the public, free of charge. Over a weekend in May, public buildings, private homes, historic monuments and new constructions become visitable, offering a chance to discover Lisbon's architecture from the inside.

This initiative is part of Open House Worldwide, an international network founded in 1992 by Victoria Thornton to bring people closer to architecture. The network spans more than sixty cities worldwide — including London, New York, Buenos Aires, Lagos and Seoul — drawing over two million visitors each year.

The Triennale cultural centre hosts the launch of 'Lost Causes: Possibilidade e Política em Concursos de Habitação', with a panel discussion led by the editors, João Manuel Miranda and Tiago Antero, and featuring the architect Inês Lobo, architect and critic Luís Santiago Baptista and architect and curator Marta Sequeira.

Published by Circo de Ideias and designed by Nonverbal Club, 'Lost Causes' is the result of a critical investigation into architecture competitions and unbuilt projects, structured around two central axes: possibility and politics. More than an exercise in nostalgia, it is a tool for critical analysis and for building a stronger political, cultural and professional discourse around architectural practice.

The book brings together sixteen interviews with practitioners who participated in, evaluated, or conceived competitions, and presents over fifty drawings from twelve practices, many of them never before published: aspa, Campos Costa Arquitetos, Conde Paradela, Cossement Cardoso, depA architects, Figueiredo+Pena, Leo Van Broeck, Luís Santiago Baptista, Josep Maria Borrell Bru, Marta Sequeira, Mesa Atelier, Nuno Reis Pereira, Pablo Pita Arquitectos, paula santos | arquitectura, ponto atelier and Pura.

The Triennale cultural centre hosts the launch of 'Lost Causes: Possibilidade e Política em Concursos de Habitação', with a panel discussion led by the editors, João Manuel Miranda and Tiago Antero, and featuring the architect Inês Lobo, architect and critic Luís Santiago Baptista and architect and curator Marta Sequeira.

Published by Circo de Ideias and designed by Nonverbal Club, 'Lost Causes' is the result of a critical investigation into architecture competitions and unbuilt projects, structured around two central axes: possibility and politics. More than an exercise in nostalgia, it is a tool for critical analysis and for building a stronger political, cultural and professional discourse around architectural practice.

The book brings together sixteen interviews with practitioners who participated in, evaluated, or conceived competitions, and presents over fifty drawings from twelve practices, many of them never before published: aspa, Campos Costa Arquitetos, Conde Paradela, Cossement Cardoso, depA architects, Figueiredo+Pena, Leo Van Broeck, Luís Santiago Baptista, Josep Maria Borrell Bru, Marta Sequeira, Mesa Atelier, Nuno Reis Pereira, Pablo Pita Arquitectos, paula santos | arquitectura, ponto atelier and Pura.

TECH CRITIC

For several decades, we’ve allowed ourselves to become deeply dependent on US technologies, platforms, and digital services. The alliance between Silicon Valley and the Trump administration has shown us how that choice hasn’t just made us vulnerable; it’s now empowering anti-democratic and authoritarian forces. Paris Marx will discuss how we became so dependent on US tech and what it might look like to chart of different course. Getting off US tech won’t be easy, but it presents an opportunity to reimagine how we use digital technology for the better.

Paris Marx is a Canadian tech critic. He hosts the award-winning Tech Won’t Save Us podcast and speaks around the world about the politics of technology. Paris is the author of Road to Nowhere and his next book Hyperscale comes out later this year.

The talk will be in English and followed by a Q&A session. 

TECH CRITIC

For several decades, we’ve allowed ourselves to become deeply dependent on US technologies, platforms, and digital services. The alliance between Silicon Valley and the Trump administration has shown us how that choice hasn’t just made us vulnerable; it’s now empowering anti-democratic and authoritarian forces. Paris Marx will discuss how we became so dependent on US tech and what it might look like to chart of different course. Getting off US tech won’t be easy, but it presents an opportunity to reimagine how we use digital technology for the better.

Paris Marx is a Canadian tech critic. He hosts the award-winning Tech Won’t Save Us podcast and speaks around the world about the politics of technology. Paris is the author of Road to Nowhere and his next book Hyperscale comes out later this year.

The talk will be in English and followed by a Q&A session. 

The book ‘Construção — 5 Casas + 1 Anexo' (Construction — 5 Houses + 1 Annex), published by studio LPP and designed by Atelier Pedro Falcão, is set to be launched at the Trienal cultural centre, with a discussion featuring publisher Luís Pedro Pinto (studio LPP), landscape architect Catarina Raposo and architect Ricardo Bak Gordon. 

This monographic publication on the recent work of studio LPP tells the story of a house, and its memory, through a journey across five projects at different stages of construction: from the preliminary study to the lived-in house, with drawings and photographs taken over the last few years by Daniel Malhão. The book also features contributions from Federico Tranfa and Maria Filomena Molder. 

The book ‘Construção — 5 Casas + 1 Anexo' (Construction — 5 Houses + 1 Annex), published by studio LPP and designed by Atelier Pedro Falcão, is set to be launched at the Trienal cultural centre, with a discussion featuring publisher Luís Pedro Pinto (studio LPP), landscape architect Catarina Raposo and architect Ricardo Bak Gordon. 

This monographic publication on the recent work of studio LPP tells the story of a house, and its memory, through a journey across five projects at different stages of construction: from the preliminary study to the lived-in house, with drawings and photographs taken over the last few years by Daniel Malhão. The book also features contributions from Federico Tranfa and Maria Filomena Molder. 

On Saturday 23 May, the Lisbon Triennale Cultural Centre will host another public event as part of the development of 'Engaging Manoeuvres', an exhibition curated by Francisco Moura Veiga which will open this autumn. 

This is the first of three conversations that will take place between professionals from two different generations, exploring alternative visions of what constitutes a good home. 

In parallel, until November, sixteen emerging studios will be invited to develop optimistic projects in response to a present characterised by environmental instability, social transformation, and material scarcity. 

On Saturday 23 May, the Lisbon Triennale Cultural Centre will host another public event as part of the development of 'Engaging Manoeuvres', an exhibition curated by Francisco Moura Veiga which will open this autumn. 

This is the first of three conversations that will take place between professionals from two different generations, exploring alternative visions of what constitutes a good home. 

In parallel, until November, sixteen emerging studios will be invited to develop optimistic projects in response to a present characterised by environmental instability, social transformation, and material scarcity. 

BEYOND THE SENSES: SCIENCE AND THE MYSTERY OF PSYCHIC PHENOMENA

Anomalies – the things that don’t fit our view of the world – are often the starting point of discoveries. As physicist Richard Feynman put it, “It’s the thing that doesn’t fit that is the most interesting.” A major challenge for science today is to understand consciousness. Theories abound, progress is being made, yet there is no consensus or even a clear path forward. In situations like this, anomalies can provide crucial direction for research. In this talk, we will look at the anomaly of psi phenomena – apparent capacities of consciousness such as telepathy and precognition – and explore the scientific evidence. If the reality of psychic phenomena is established, it may serve as a signpost toward understanding how and why we experience experience at all – the core of human consciousness. We will also consider what this would imply for science more broadly and how it invites us to understand the world.

Peter Bancel is a senior researcher at the Institut Métapsychique International (IMI) in Paris and a fellow of the Institute of Noetic Sciences in California. In the early 2000s, he collaborated with the Global Consciousness Project based in Princeton (USA) before joining the IMI in 2010. Alongside his scientific work, he is a long-time Buddhist practitioner and meditation teacher, with a longstanding interest in consciousness that bridges contemplative traditions and empirical research. Since joining the IMI, he has focused on how psychic phenomena – often called “psi” – can be studied using the methods of mainstream science. His work explores precognition, experimental design in psi studies, and possible connections with quantum physics. He holds a PhD in Experimental Physics from the University of Pennsylvania. After postdoctoral research at IBM, he moved to France, where he worked at the CNRS in Paris and later at the Institut des Matériaux Jean Rouxel at the University of Nantes.

The talk will be in English and followed by a Q&A session. 

BEYOND THE SENSES: SCIENCE AND THE MYSTERY OF PSYCHIC PHENOMENA

Anomalies – the things that don’t fit our view of the world – are often the starting point of discoveries. As physicist Richard Feynman put it, “It’s the thing that doesn’t fit that is the most interesting.” A major challenge for science today is to understand consciousness. Theories abound, progress is being made, yet there is no consensus or even a clear path forward. In situations like this, anomalies can provide crucial direction for research. In this talk, we will look at the anomaly of psi phenomena – apparent capacities of consciousness such as telepathy and precognition – and explore the scientific evidence. If the reality of psychic phenomena is established, it may serve as a signpost toward understanding how and why we experience experience at all – the core of human consciousness. We will also consider what this would imply for science more broadly and how it invites us to understand the world.

Peter Bancel is a senior researcher at the Institut Métapsychique International (IMI) in Paris and a fellow of the Institute of Noetic Sciences in California. In the early 2000s, he collaborated with the Global Consciousness Project based in Princeton (USA) before joining the IMI in 2010. Alongside his scientific work, he is a long-time Buddhist practitioner and meditation teacher, with a longstanding interest in consciousness that bridges contemplative traditions and empirical research. Since joining the IMI, he has focused on how psychic phenomena – often called “psi” – can be studied using the methods of mainstream science. His work explores precognition, experimental design in psi studies, and possible connections with quantum physics. He holds a PhD in Experimental Physics from the University of Pennsylvania. After postdoctoral research at IBM, he moved to France, where he worked at the CNRS in Paris and later at the Institut des Matériaux Jean Rouxel at the University of Nantes.

The talk will be in English and followed by a Q&A session. 

This workshop proposes de creation of a collective zine, to explore the theme of community in relation to the city, understood as a space of use, care and maintenance. Inspired by the idea of the rhizome (a non-hierarchical, networked structure in constant transformation), it crosses spatial practices with queer perspectives. 

Drawing on a selection of publications from the Trienal's Documentation Centre and zines from the Queer Zine Library Berlin — and using techniques such as collage, drawing, annotation and rewriting —, each participant develops a spread. The final zine will be digitised and shared with all participants, with the original remaining as part of the Trienal's archive.

Ricardo Batista is a zinester and cultural mediator who has worked with independent publishing practices connected to queer activism. Since 2023, he has been part of the Queer Zine Library Berlin, where he develops and programmes activities to activate the collection. His zines include Queer Liberation, not Rainbow Capitalism (Sapata Press, 2023), Vinyl Tears (2024) and The Third Nipple (Hell Books, 2025).

The Queer Zine Library Berlin is a mobile library dedicated to collecting, preserving and circulating queer zines as tools for producing and sharing critical knowledge outside institutional circuits. Founded in 2019 by the Queer ZineFest Berlin collective, the collection currently holds over four hundred publications reflecting dissident and transnational publishing practices. Activated through workshops, gatherings and loans, the library promotes free access and the dissemination of queer narratives and perspectives. When not in circulation, it can be consulted at Spinnboden — Lesbian Archive and Library in Berlin.

This workshop proposes de creation of a collective zine, to explore the theme of community in relation to the city, understood as a space of use, care and maintenance. Inspired by the idea of the rhizome (a non-hierarchical, networked structure in constant transformation), it crosses spatial practices with queer perspectives. 

Drawing on a selection of publications from the Trienal's Documentation Centre and zines from the Queer Zine Library Berlin — and using techniques such as collage, drawing, annotation and rewriting —, each participant develops a spread. The final zine will be digitised and shared with all participants, with the original remaining as part of the Trienal's archive.

Ricardo Batista is a zinester and cultural mediator who has worked with independent publishing practices connected to queer activism. Since 2023, he has been part of the Queer Zine Library Berlin, where he develops and programmes activities to activate the collection. His zines include Queer Liberation, not Rainbow Capitalism (Sapata Press, 2023), Vinyl Tears (2024) and The Third Nipple (Hell Books, 2025).

The Queer Zine Library Berlin is a mobile library dedicated to collecting, preserving and circulating queer zines as tools for producing and sharing critical knowledge outside institutional circuits. Founded in 2019 by the Queer ZineFest Berlin collective, the collection currently holds over four hundred publications reflecting dissident and transnational publishing practices. Activated through workshops, gatherings and loans, the library promotes free access and the dissemination of queer narratives and perspectives. When not in circulation, it can be consulted at Spinnboden — Lesbian Archive and Library in Berlin.

PERMACOMPUTING: SMALL ENTRANCES TO A WIDE COLLECTIVE

Permacomputing applies permaculture, a design for Earth care, people care and fair share, to computing. It focuses on repair and inspects the all-encompassing impacts of technology through trails of ecology, conviviality and anti-capitalist politics. Communities dedicated to these ethics continue to form around the world and exercise it with art, mutual aid and practical guides to technological degrowth and maintainable systems. The aim is to impair dominant tech powers that funnel our emotions into data with seamlessly blunt interactions that coast us into a world of alienation filled with environmental harm. This momentous friction creates a new politicisation due to tech’s ubiquity and polarisation. Permacomputing’s idiosyncratic and minimal computing practices require slowness, thoughtfulness and communal knowledge sharing. This deepens relationships and sociability, and subsequently opens gateways to politics and class consciousness from ecofeminist, decolonial and communal foundations.

Ana Meisel is a Polish-German web developer and artist based in London, UK. Her focus is on historically-informed computing through the lens of critical theory, ecological responsibility, whole-systems thinking, and community organising. She is part of Superkilogirls, a collective that looks at feminist critiques of computing and automation, runs External Pages, an internet art gallery and co-organises London’s Permacomputing Club. Her work has been showcased in diverse contexts like the Cyberfeminism Index and San Jose Museum of Art. Her interests include tech resistance movements, DIY tech culture, and the Eastern Bloc.

The talk will be in English and followed by a Q&A session. 

PERMACOMPUTING: SMALL ENTRANCES TO A WIDE COLLECTIVE

Permacomputing applies permaculture, a design for Earth care, people care and fair share, to computing. It focuses on repair and inspects the all-encompassing impacts of technology through trails of ecology, conviviality and anti-capitalist politics. Communities dedicated to these ethics continue to form around the world and exercise it with art, mutual aid and practical guides to technological degrowth and maintainable systems. The aim is to impair dominant tech powers that funnel our emotions into data with seamlessly blunt interactions that coast us into a world of alienation filled with environmental harm. This momentous friction creates a new politicisation due to tech’s ubiquity and polarisation. Permacomputing’s idiosyncratic and minimal computing practices require slowness, thoughtfulness and communal knowledge sharing. This deepens relationships and sociability, and subsequently opens gateways to politics and class consciousness from ecofeminist, decolonial and communal foundations.

Ana Meisel is a Polish-German web developer and artist based in London, UK. Her focus is on historically-informed computing through the lens of critical theory, ecological responsibility, whole-systems thinking, and community organising. She is part of Superkilogirls, a collective that looks at feminist critiques of computing and automation, runs External Pages, an internet art gallery and co-organises London’s Permacomputing Club. Her work has been showcased in diverse contexts like the Cyberfeminism Index and San Jose Museum of Art. Her interests include tech resistance movements, DIY tech culture, and the Eastern Bloc.

The talk will be in English and followed by a Q&A session.