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28 AUG
22:00

FUSO 2026

Fest, Palace, Co-production, Free entrance

FUSO 2026

For the fifth time, FUSO video art festival returns to the Lisbon Triennale Cultural Centre — Palácio Sinel de Cordes, for another open-air evening. With the courtyard serving as a screen, the summer evening of Friday 28 August will host the session ‘This Must Be The Place – Body, Territory and Dissident Ecologies’, curated by João Mourão and Luís Silva of Kunsthalle Lissabon.

Bringing together works by Manauara Clandestina, Elyla, Isadora Neves Marques and Zheng Bo, the programme explores the intersections of body, territory and political imagination through queer, decolonial and speculative perspectives. The four works address migration, memory, resistance, political ecologies and forms of coexistence between human and non-human life. The screening is preceded by a conversation between Cristiana Tejo and the curators. 

The 18th edition of FUSO Lisboa takes place from 25 to 29 August at various venues across the city. FUSO Insular, in São Miguel, the Azores, takes place on 30 and 31 October. 

Fest, Palace, Co-production, Free entrance

For the fifth time, FUSO video art festival returns to the Lisbon Triennale Cultural Centre — Palácio Sinel de Cordes, for another open-air evening. With the courtyard serving as a screen, the summer evening of Friday 28 August will host the session ‘This Must Be The Place – Body, Territory and Dissident Ecologies’, curated by João Mourão and Luís Silva of Kunsthalle Lissabon.

Bringing together works by Manauara Clandestina, Elyla, Isadora Neves Marques and Zheng Bo, the programme explores the intersections of body, territory and political imagination through queer, decolonial and speculative perspectives. The four works address migration, memory, resistance, political ecologies and forms of coexistence between human and non-human life. The screening is preceded by a conversation between Cristiana Tejo and the curators. 

The 18th edition of FUSO Lisboa takes place from 25 to 29 August at various venues across the city. FUSO Insular, in São Miguel, the Azores, takes place on 30 and 31 October. 

Fest, Palace, Co-production, Free entrance
05 SEP-31 DEC
11:00-19:00

Saturdays at the Palace

Palace, Free entrance

Saturdays at the Palace

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.


Palace, Free entrance

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.


Palace, Free entrance
07 SEP-11 SEP
10:00-17:30

End-of-Summer Holidays Activities

Palace, Workshop

End-of-Summer Holidays Activities

As the summer holidays draw to a close, the Triennale invites children and young people aged 6 to 16 to spend a week exploring architecture through making, imagining and playing. Over five days, participants will create everything from a shelter for insects to an imaginary city for animals, discovering different scales of architecture through drawing, construction and experimentation. There will also be time for water games, reading and relaxing in the courtyard.


Monday, 07 September

Shelters for Insects

What would a home for a bee, an ant or another tiny garden inhabitant look like? Using wood, branches, leaves, pinecones and other natural materials collected in the courtyard, participants will build shelters designed to protect and welcome different species.


Tuesday, 08 September

Water games

Through a collaborative chain-reaction game, participants build a small device that collects, channels and redistributes water. Working together, they explore different ways of managing an essential resource and discover how small decisions can shape a larger system.


Wednesday, 09 September

Triangle Tent

Participants design and build a tent, using prepared timber poles and ropes. Along the way, they discover how geometry influences structural strength and how architecture creates light yet resilient spaces.


Thursday, 10 September

Covering, Skin or Shell

With the structure complete, it is time to make it comfortable. Leaves, fabrics and other materials become coverings that provide shelter, shape the atmosphere and give the structure its own character.


Friday, 11 September

Shadow City

What would a city designed for animals look like? Using cut-outs and reused objects, participants create buildings, characters and stories that come to life through a shadow theatre, imagining new ways of living together.


For children and young people aged 06 to 16
Min. 05 and max. 15 participants

Price (10% discount for siblings, VAT included):
— 01 day: 40€
— 02 days: 70€
— 03 days: 100€
— 04 days: 120€
— 05 days: 150€
— lunch and snack (optional): €10 per day

Registration and queries by email: atividades@trienaldelisboa.com

Palace, Workshop

As the summer holidays draw to a close, the Triennale invites children and young people aged 6 to 16 to spend a week exploring architecture through making, imagining and playing. Over five days, participants will create everything from a shelter for insects to an imaginary city for animals, discovering different scales of architecture through drawing, construction and experimentation. There will also be time for water games, reading and relaxing in the courtyard.


Monday, 07 September

Shelters for Insects

What would a home for a bee, an ant or another tiny garden inhabitant look like? Using wood, branches, leaves, pinecones and other natural materials collected in the courtyard, participants will build shelters designed to protect and welcome different species.


Tuesday, 08 September

Water games

Through a collaborative chain-reaction game, participants build a small device that collects, channels and redistributes water. Working together, they explore different ways of managing an essential resource and discover how small decisions can shape a larger system.


Wednesday, 09 September

Triangle Tent

Participants design and build a tent, using prepared timber poles and ropes. Along the way, they discover how geometry influences structural strength and how architecture creates light yet resilient spaces.


Thursday, 10 September

Covering, Skin or Shell

With the structure complete, it is time to make it comfortable. Leaves, fabrics and other materials become coverings that provide shelter, shape the atmosphere and give the structure its own character.


Friday, 11 September

Shadow City

What would a city designed for animals look like? Using cut-outs and reused objects, participants create buildings, characters and stories that come to life through a shadow theatre, imagining new ways of living together.


For children and young people aged 06 to 16
Min. 05 and max. 15 participants

Price (10% discount for siblings, VAT included):
— 01 day: 40€
— 02 days: 70€
— 03 days: 100€
— 04 days: 120€
— 05 days: 150€
— lunch and snack (optional): €10 per day

Registration and queries by email: atividades@trienaldelisboa.com

Palace, Workshop
26 SEP
16:00-17:30

Story Time: 'A House Called Equality' with Inês Blanc

Families, Palace

Story Time: 'A House Called Equality' with Inês Blanc

Bring the whole family to 'A House Called Equality' and join Inês Blanc for another story time. If the world is our extended home and we have rules at home, we must ensure that everyone follows them and has the same rights. 

This storytelling session with narrative rugs is a time for affection and for strengthening bonds. A time for listening and dreaming, when characters leap off the pages of the book and come to life as colorful cloth puppets — faithful to the illustrations of those who imagined them — and transport us back to a childhood when we felt cherished.

Inês Blanc is an architect by profession and a storyteller by passion. For over a decade, she has been dedicated to promoting books and reading in schools, libraries, and bookstores. Using the 'narrative rugs' methodology, she has already taken her 'Contamimando' project to several countries (over the past year and a half, she spent time in Mozambique and São Tomé and Príncipe at the invitation of Camões—Portuguese Cultural Center) and to more than 4,000 children and young people.

In Portuguese. 
For babies, children, and families. 
Free registration until August 28: atividades@trienaldelisboa.com 

Families, Palace

Bring the whole family to 'A House Called Equality' and join Inês Blanc for another story time. If the world is our extended home and we have rules at home, we must ensure that everyone follows them and has the same rights. 

This storytelling session with narrative rugs is a time for affection and for strengthening bonds. A time for listening and dreaming, when characters leap off the pages of the book and come to life as colorful cloth puppets — faithful to the illustrations of those who imagined them — and transport us back to a childhood when we felt cherished.

Inês Blanc is an architect by profession and a storyteller by passion. For over a decade, she has been dedicated to promoting books and reading in schools, libraries, and bookstores. Using the 'narrative rugs' methodology, she has already taken her 'Contamimando' project to several countries (over the past year and a half, she spent time in Mozambique and São Tomé and Príncipe at the invitation of Camões—Portuguese Cultural Center) and to more than 4,000 children and young people.

In Portuguese. 
For babies, children, and families. 
Free registration until August 28: atividades@trienaldelisboa.com 

Families, Palace
05 NOV-02 MAR
11:00-19:00

Engaging Manoeuvres: Optimistic Houses for the Now

Exhibition, Palace, Free entrance

Engaging Manoeuvres: Optimistic Houses for the Now

‘Engaging Manoeuvres’ brings together a new generation of Portuguese architects, aged between 35 and 40, around a shared exercise: designing a house for the present. In a context shaped by environmental instability, social transformation and material scarcity, the exhibition approaches the house as a critical lens through which to consider how architecture is designed today and, above all, the values that underpin those decisions. 

Each practice presents a speculative project through common elements — as plans, sections, elevations, models and a written statement — that allows different approaches to contemporary dwelling to be read side by side. Rather than presenting solutions, the exhibition makes visible the processes, criteria and values that inform architectural design in Portugal today. 

Exhibition, Palace, Free entrance

‘Engaging Manoeuvres’ brings together a new generation of Portuguese architects, aged between 35 and 40, around a shared exercise: designing a house for the present. In a context shaped by environmental instability, social transformation and material scarcity, the exhibition approaches the house as a critical lens through which to consider how architecture is designed today and, above all, the values that underpin those decisions. 

Each practice presents a speculative project through common elements — as plans, sections, elevations, models and a written statement — that allows different approaches to contemporary dwelling to be read side by side. Rather than presenting solutions, the exhibition makes visible the processes, criteria and values that inform architectural design in Portugal today. 

Exhibition, Palace, Free entrance