How Heavy is a City? explores cities as complex systems consuming materials, energy, and information, forming a “technosphere” as influential as natural layers. The project challenges traditional architectural boundaries by urging professionals to consider planetary-scale environmental impacts. It traces each component of urban construction, revealing connections extending beyond city limits. A collaborative platform, culminating in an exhibition and conference at the Lisbon Triennale 2025, unites architects, climate scientists, artists, urban planners, activists, and technology experts. Using satellite imagery and environmental sensors, the initiative sparks conversations about sustainable urban development that harmonizes human activity with natural systems. Its ultimate goal is to reimagine cities in the Anthropocene era to support both human civilization and planetary health.

Territorial Agency is an independent organization founded by architects and urbanists John Palmesino and Ann-Sofi Rönnskog. Blending contemporary architecture, art, spatial analysis, advocacy, and action, it promotes comprehensive territorial transformations in the Anthropocene. Its work, rooted in extensive spatial analysis via remote sensing, explores complex representations of physical transformations in inhabited territories. The agency engages various stakeholders to reassess relationships with the material, energy, and information fluxes that shape modern territories. Recent projects include Sensible Zone at the Venice Biennale, Oceans in Transformation (in collaboration with TBA21, ZKM, and the Taipei Biennial), and the Anthropocene Observatory at HKW Berlin. Palmsino and Rönnskog, Unit Masters at the Architectural Association School in London. Territorial Agency was awarded the STARTS Prize 2021 by the European Commission for Artistic Exploration.

Founded in 2010, the Lisbon Architecture Triennale is a nonprofit association whose mission is to research, foster and promote architectural thinking and practice. It holds a major forum every three years for discussion and dissemination of architecture across geographic and disciplinary boundaries. The first Triennale, Urban Voids (2007), consisted of an international program of exhibitions, competitions and conferences, and drew 52,000 visitors. By the fourth edition in 2016, the audience tripled to 154,778 attendees. The Triennale’s first four editions have been distinguished with the High Patronage of His Excellency the President of the Portuguese Republic. In 2010, the Ministry of Culture has recognized it as a Cultural Interest, and, in 2013, the Portuguese Government endowed it with the status of Public Interest. For more than a decade, therefore, the annual and triennial programming has enriched the cultural life of the city of Lisbon in ways that are applauded by specialists and the general audience alike.