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.
2020
Muddying the Waters
e-flux architecture series Oceans
2020
Critical Zones online
ZKM
2020
Revaluing the Oceans
e-flux architecture series Oceans
2020
Kiruna Forever
Konstmuseet i Norr
2020
I segni del tempo - Revolutions and Recourses in the Anthropocene
Blind Sensorium
2020
Messy Studio #10—Cities-to-come on the Asian coastlines
TBA21–Academy
Andrés Jaque, Mi You, Alvin Li and Julian Junyuan Feng, Rhine Bernardino, Irwan Ahmett and Tita Salina, Territorial Agency, Daniela Zyman, Barbara Casavecchia, Louise Carver; and the participants of the Ocean Fellowship Program
16 July 2020
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Online
Ocean-Archive2020
Five Scientific Achievements That Happened During Coronavirus Lockdown
Smithsonian Magazine
2020
Messy Studio #9—Frozen reserves, brown clouds, and dissolving wet deltas—Ecosystems in transformation along the Indian Ocean Gyre
TBA21–Academy
Himali Singh Soin, Ritu Sarin and Tenzing Sonam, Debjani Bhattacharyya, Marina Tabassum, Ravi Agarwal, Territorial Agency, Markus Reymann, Daniela Zyman, Barbara Casavecchia, Louise Carver; and the participants of the Ocean Fellowship Program
8 July 2020
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Online
Ocean-Archive2020
Forest Gardens Beneath the Anthropocene Seas
e-flux architecture series Oceans
2020
Shipping Oil
e-flux architecture series Oceans
2020
Messy Studio #8—(Pan~)Atlantic Worlds
TBA21–Academy
Donna Kukama, Nabil Ahmed, Lazarus Tamana, Jeremiah Ikongio, Nchongayi Christantus Begealawuh,Markus Reymann, Daniela Zyman, John Palmesino
24 June 2020
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Online
Ocean-Archive2020
Infrastructural Snare
e-flux architecture series Oceans
2020
Messy Studio #7—Organs of War: Measurement and Ecologies of Dematerialization in Wangechi Mutu’s Histology of the Different Classes of Uterine Tumors
TBA21–Academy
Zakiyyah Iman Jackson, Territorial Agency, Markus Reymann, Daniela Zyman, Barbara Casavecchia, Louise Carver; and the participants of the Ocean Fellowship Program
22 June 2020
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Online
Ocean-Archive2020
The Fisherman and the Scientist
e-flux architecture series Oceans
2020
Messy Studio #6—Pacific Futures
TBA21–Academy
Elizabeth DeLoughrey, Jaimey Hamilton Faris, Maureen Penjueli, Taloi Havini, Territorial Agency, Markus Reymann, Daniela Zyman, Barbara Casavecchia, Louise Carver; and the participants of the Ocean Fellowship Program
15 June 2020
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Online
Ocean-Archive2020
Monster: A Fugue in Fire and Ice
e-flux architecture series Oceans
2020
Messy Studio #5—Panama, the Gulf Stream, and Europe
TBA21–Academy
Jeremy Jackson, Territorial Agency, Markus Reymann, Daniela Zyman, Barbara Casavecchia, Louise Carver; and the participants of the Ocean Fellowship Program
8 June 2020
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Online
Ocean-Archive2020
Messy Studio #4—Aquapolitics Along the Gulf Stream
TBA21–Academy
Brian Holmes, Brad Kahlhamer, Damion “Skinny” Mckintosh, Louise Carver, Leah Gordon, Åsa Andersson, Jamie Allen, Territorial Agency, Markus Reymann, Daniela Zyman, Barbara Casavecchia, Louise Carver; and the participants of the Ocean Fellowship Program
5 June 2020
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Online
Ocean-Archive2020
Messy Studio #3—Monster: A Fugue in Fire and Ice
TBA21–Academy
Anne McClintock, Territorial Agency, Markus Reymann, Daniela Zyman, Barbara Casavecchia, Louise Carver; and the participants of the Ocean Fellowship Program
1 June 2020
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Online
Ocean-Archive2020
More Blue’: An Artwork Shows the Sea Changing During Lockdown by Nina Siegal
New York Times
2020
The Sea and the Breathing
e-flux architecture series Oceans
2020
Critical Zones
ZKM
Oceans in Transformation - Architecture of the Continental Shelf
23 May 2020 – 8 August 2021
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Karlsruhe
ZKM2020
Messy Studio #2—The “Burning” of the Black Mediterranean
TBA21–Academy
Alessandra di Maio, Invernomuto, Yusuf Haibeh Said, Monika Halkort,Territorial Agency, Markus Reymann, Daniela Zyman, and the participants of the Ocean Fellowship Program.
22 May 2020
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Online
Ocean-Archive2020
Messy Studio #1: Acqua Alta—The Rising Waters
TBA21–Academy
Nancy Knowlton, Jane Da Mosto, Klaas Kuitenbrouwer, Territorial Agency, Markus Reymann, Daniela Zyman, and the participants of the Ocean Fellowship Program
20 May 2020
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Online
Ocean-Archive2020
When Above
e-flux architecture series Oceans
2020
Reading the Summary for Policymakers of the UNIPCC Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate
Ocean Space
When Above… Reading by Gregorio Magnifichi of passages from the Summary for Policymakers of the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate
19 May 2020
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Chiesa di San Lorenzo, Venice
Ocean-Archive2020
Reading Enûma Eliš
Ocean Space
When Above… Reading by Miriam Russo of passages from Enûma Eliš, The Babylonian Epic of Creation, circa 1750 BCE
19 May 2020
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Chiesa di San Lorenzo, Venice
Ocean-Archive2020
Oceans in Transformation
e-flux architecture series Oceans
Editorial by Nick Axel, Nikolaus Hirsch, John Palmesino, Markus Reymann, Ann-Sofi Rönnskog, and Daniela Zyman
19 May 2020
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2020
When Above…
Ocean Space
Oceans in Transformation, unveiling facade installation
19 May 2020
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Chiesa di San Lorenzo, Venice
Ocean-Archive2020
Ocean’s Many Waters #5 – Grappling Water - Rethinking Approaches to Research
TBA21–Academy
Yuchen Chang, Fernando García-Dory, Louise Carver and Barbara Casavecchia, Territorial Agency, Daniela Zyman, and Markus Reymann
15 May 2020
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Online
Ocean-Archive2020
Ocean’s Many Waters #4 – Ice worlds: The disappearing cryosphere
TBA21–Academy
Matti Aikio, Carlos Manuel Duarte, Britt Kramvig, Louise Carver and Barbara Casavecchia, Territorial Agency, Daniela Zyman, and Markus Reymann
8 May 2020
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Online
Ocean-Archive2020
Ocean’s Many Waters #3 – On Ocean labor: working on and with the oceans / Fishing, Shipping, Coastal Communities
TBA21–Academy
Shaina Anand, John Gerrard, Captain Hamad Bakar Hamad, Rémi Parmentier, Louise Carver and Barbara Casavecchia, Territorial Agency, Daniela Zyman, and Markus Reymann
30 April 2020
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Online
Ocean-Archive2020
Ocean’s Many Waters #2 – Water Ontologies—Or, how can we learn new ways to sense and define the relations between humans, nonhumans, and waters?
TBA21–Academy
Johanna Bruckner, Astrida Neimanis, Shanee Stopnitzky, Louise Carver and Barbara Casavecchia, Territorial Agency, Daniela Zyman, and Markus Reymann
24 April 2020
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Online
Ocean-Archive2020
Kiruna Forever
ArkDes
North Anon
24 April 2020 - 7 February 2021
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Stockholm
ArkDes The Swedish Centre for Architecture and Designe-flux2020
Ocean’s Many Waters #1 – Crimes of Peace / Imagining Oceanic Justice
TBA21–Academy
Nabil Ahmed, Monika Halkort, and Susanne M. Winterling, Louise Carver and Barbara Casavecchia, Territorial Agency, Daniela Zyman, and Markus Reymann
17 April 2020
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Online
Ocean-Archive2020
All-Atlantic Ocean Research Forum
European Commission
Territorial Agency presents Oceans in Transformation
6 - 7 February 2020
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EU Atlantic Maritime Strategy, European Commission, Brussels
European Commission2019
Ocean Fellowship 2020 – Call for applications
TBA21-Academy
OCEAN FELLOWSHIP at Ocean Space, Venice, as part of the exhibition Territorial Agency: Oceans in Transformation, commissioned by TBA21–Academy.
19 Decemer 2019
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2019
Eco-Visionaries – Oceans in Crisis
TBA21–Academy, Royal Academy of Arts
Territorial Agency, Ayesha Hameed, Jeremy Jackson, Otolith Group and Markus Reymann.
6 December 2019
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18:30 GMT
Benjamin West Lecture Theatre, Burlington Gardens, London
Royal Academy of Arts2019
Climate Peace
AA Think Tank
Lecture by Territorial Agency. An open seminar series convened by Territorial Agency at the AA Architectural Association
2 December 2019
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18:30 GMT
AA Lecture Hall, London
AA Architectural Association2019
Is law from the Holocene?
AA Think Tank
With Davor Vidas (Fridtjof Nansen Institute, Oslo), Alain Pottage (London School of Economics). An open seminar series convened by Territorial Agency at the AA Architectural Association
25 November 2019
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18:30 GMT
AA Lecture Hall, London
AA Architectural Association2019
European Space Agency
Smart City EXPO World Congress
2019
How to confront a world on fire?
AA Think Tank
Fernanda Balata and David Powell (New Economics Foundation), Lindsay Bremner (Westminster University), Adrienne Buller (Labour for Green New Deal) and AAction. Organised by Jose Alfredo Ramirez with Ed Wall and Tim Waterman. An open seminar series convened by Territorial Agency at the AA Architectural Association
18 November 2019
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18:30 GMT
AA Lecture Hall, London
AA Architectural Association2019
AFTER OIL ... THE RISK OF NO TRANSITION
Chicago Architecture Biennial
Discussion featuring Biennial contributors John Palmesino and Ann-Sofi Rönnskog (Territorial Agency), Jamie L. Jones (Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), writer and scholar Anne McClintock (A. Barton Hepburn Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies, Princeton University), and Charlie Kronick (Senior Programme Adviser at Greenpeace UK)
16 November 2019
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11:00-13:00
Chicago, USA
Chicago Architecture Biennial2019
What is a revolution?
AA Think Tank
With Tim Lenton (Global Systems Institute, Exeter). An open seminar series convened by Territorial Agency at the AA Architectural Association
11 November 2019
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18:30 GMT
AA Lecture Hall, London
AA Architectural Association2019
Anthropocene – when are we?
AA Think Tank
Charlie Kronick (Greenpeace), Jan Zalasiewicz (Anthropocene Working Group) and Catherine Russell (University of Leicester), Hilary Koob-Sassen. An open seminar series convened by Territorial Agency at the AA Architectural Association
4 November 2019
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18:30 GMT
AA Lecture Hall, London
AA Architectural AssociationVideo Q&A2019
What is a state of nature?
AA Think Tank
Michael Smythe, Thomas Thwaites and others, organised by Silvana Taher and Matilde Cassani. An open seminar series convened by Territorial Agency at the AA Architectural Association
21 October 2019
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18:30 GMT
AA Lecture Hall, London
AA Architectural Association2019
Can we control the planet?
AA Think Tank
Lecture by Territorial Agency. An open seminar series convened by Territorial Agency at the AA Architectural Association
14 October 2019
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18:30 GMT
AA Lecture Hall, London
AA Architectural Association2019
Interview on Museum of Oil - American Rooms
Yale Paprika
2019
How to think with others?
AA Think Tank
Lucia Pietroiusti (Serpentine) in conversation with Territorial Agency. An open seminar series convened by Territorial Agency at the AA Architectural Association
7 October 2019
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18:30 GMT
AA Lecture Hall, London
AA Architectural Association2019
Climate Summit – Architecture Education Declares and hosted by AAction
AAction
Arraying Territories keynote in AAction Climate Summit
4 October 2019
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15:00 GMT
AA Lecture Hall, London
Architectural Association2019
Data Visualization for Sounds Too Many
Francesca Thyssen-Bornemisza
2019
Museum of Oil - American Rooms
Chicago Architecture Biennial
…and other such stories by artistic director Yesomi Umolu with curators Sepake Angiama and Paulo Tavares
19 September 2019 - 5 January 2020
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Chicago Cultural Center
Chicago Architecture Bienniale-flux2019
I segni del tempo - Revolutions and Recourses in the Anthropocene
Goethe-Institut Mailand in collaboration with Triennale Milano and HKW
2019
Data Visualization for Sounds Too Many
Francesca Thyssen-Bornemisza
An immersive lecture performance, European Maritime Day, Lisbon, Portugal
17 May 2019
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2019
Messy Studio: Overfishing
TBA21–Academy, Ocean Space
2019
Data Visualization for Sounds Too Many
Francesca Thyssen-Bornemisza
An immersive lecture performance, Ocean Week at Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim
6 May 2019
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2019
I segni del tempo
German exhibition Carceri d'Invenzione by Armin Linke and Anselm Franke, XXII Triennale di Milano
2019
Climate Change at the Building Scale PT.1 – Environmental Scale
GSAPP Columbia University
2019
Ocean Data Challenge
United Nations
2019
The Geopolitics of Preservation
VOLUME 55
2018
Reimagining spaces for future diplomacy through art and architecture
United Nations Library Talk
2018
Future Factory
London Design Museum
Symposium, Future Factory Collaboration with the Design and Living Systems Lab and Central Saint Martins UAL's Material Futures Programme
30 November 2018
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13:30-17:30 GMT
London
Design Museum2018
Anthropocene Observatory
SPEAP SciencesPo
2018
Fields of Invisibility
Sesc Belenzinho
2018
All Hands on Deck
MIT
2018
Work Marathon 2018
Serpentine Galleries
2018
Territorial Agency: Fossils in Radical Kitchen
Serpentine Galleries
2018
Sensing the Oceans
Museum of Modern Art and TBA21
2018
Climate Peace
Gaia Mother Tree Fondation Beyeler
2018
Solid Sea in Remembering Landscape
Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen
Curated by director Eva Schmidt and Kai Vöckler. A cooperation with the Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, the Center for Decontamination, Belgrade, and Saint-Lukas Gallery, Brussels
10 June - 30 September 2018
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Siegen
Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen2018
The Spectral Landscapes of Oslo
AHO
2018
Messy Studio: Oceanic Sensorium
On the occasion of Armin Linke’s exhibition Prospecting Ocean with TBA21-Academy, Istituto di Scienze Marine (CNR-ISMAR)
A roundtable hosted by Territorial Agency with Mauro Bastianini (CNR-ISMAR), Lucia Bongiorni (CNR-ISMAR), Alessandro Ceregato (CNR-ISMAR), Adam Lowe (Factum Arte), Francesca Santoro (UNESCO), Hashim Sarkis (MIT) Katrin Schroeder (CNR-ISMAR),, Marco Sigovini (CNR-ISMAR)
25 May 2018
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15:00-18:00 CET
Venice
e-flux2018
Messy Studio: Oceanic Spatialities
On the occasion of Armin Linke’s exhibition Prospecting Ocean with TBA21-Academy, Istituto di Scienze Marine (CNR-ISMAR)
A roundtable hosted by Territorial Agency with Ute Meta Bauer (NTU CCA Singapore), Debora Bellafiore (CNR-ISMAR), Alvise Benetazzo (CNR-ISMAR), Sandro Carniel (CNR-ISMAR), Franco Farinelli (Università di Bologna),, Hans Ulrich Obrist (Serpentine Galleries London), Angela Pomaro (CNR-ISMAR),, Luca Zaggia (CNR-ISMAR)
24 May 2018
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15:00-18:00 CET
Venice
e-flux2018
AA Gallery Takover
AA Architectural Association
2018
Eco-Visionaries – art, architecture and new media after the anthropocene
Hatje Cantz
2017
GAD Awards 17
TU Graz
2017
The institution as an agent of change
TBA21
2017
Technosphere
ROM
2017
Seminar Technosphere
AHO, Goldsmiths, AA
2017
London Mega Crit
Architecture Foundation
2017
The Noise of Being
Sonic Acts Festival
Anthropocene Tipping Points
24 February 2017
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16:00-17:30 CET
De Brakke Grond, Amsterdam
Sonic ActsVideo 22017
Architecture and Control by AAgora
AA Architectural Association
John Palmesino, Ann-Sofi Rönnskog, Carl Turner, Bozar Ben Zeev, Rory Sherlock, chaired by Stanislas Turcon (AAgora)
14 February 2017
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18:00 GMT
AA, London
AA2017
Technosphere
AHO
2016
Territorial Agency - New Modes of Existence
gencat and Santa Monica
INTENSIFICATIONS—Territorial Transformations in the Anthropocene
2 December 2016
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Cloister Max Cahner, Barcelona
gencat2016
Scale and diversity of the physical technosphere: A geological perspective
The Anthropocene Review
by Jan Zalasiewicz, Mark Williams, Colin N Waters, Anthony D Barnosky, John Palmesino, Ann-Sofi Rönnskog, Matt Edgeworth, Cath Neal, Alejandro Cearreta, Erle C Ellis, Jacques Grinevald, Peter Haff, Juliana A Ivar do Sul, Catherine Jeandel, Reinhold Leinfelder, John R McNeill, Eric Odada, Naomi Oreskes, Simon James Price, Andrew Revkin, Will Steffen, Colin Summerhayes, Davor Vidas, Scott Wing, and Alexander P Wolfe
28 November 2016
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2016
Tensegrity – and other Contradictory Complicities
Tenderpixel
2016
Are we Human? : The Design of the Species : 2 seconds, 2 days, 2 years, 200 years, 200,000 years
Istanbul Design Biennial
Curated by Beatriz Colomina and Mark Wigley. Museum of Oil—Deep Space and After Fire
22 October – 20 November 2016
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Istanbul
Istanbul Design Bienniale-flux