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

Margarida Mendes, João Martins

24 July 2020

e-flux

2020

Critical Zones online

ZKM

Oceans in Transformation - Architecture of the Continental Shelf

24 July 2020

ZKM online

ZKMZKM/TA

2020

Revaluing the Oceans

e-flux architecture series Oceans

Jeremy B.C. Jackson

23 July 2020

e-flux

2020

Kiruna Forever

Konstmuseet i Norr

North Anon

21 July 2020 - 10 January 2021

Kiruna

Konstmuseet i NorrExhibition look

2020

I segni del tempo - Revolutions and Recourses in the Anthropocene

Blind Sensorium

Video lecture for Armin Linke

21 July 2020

Blind Sensoriume-flux

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

Online

Ocean-Archive

2020

Five Scientific Achievements That Happened During Coronavirus Lockdown

Smithsonian Magazine

by Dieynaba Young

15 July 2020

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

Online

Ocean-Archive

2020

Forest Gardens Beneath the Anthropocene Seas

e-flux architecture series Oceans

Mark Williams and Jan Zalasiewicz

6 July 2020

e-flux

2020

Shipping Oil

e-flux architecture series Oceans

Laleh Khalili

28 June 2020

e-flux

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

Online

Ocean-Archive

2020

Infrastructural Snare

e-flux architecture series Oceans

Nabil Ahmed

23 June 2020

e-flux

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

Online

Ocean-Archive

2020

The Fisherman and the Scientist

e-flux architecture series Oceans

Cresantia Frances Koya Vaka’uta

18 June 2020

e-flux

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

Online

Ocean-Archive

2020

Monster: A Fugue in Fire and Ice

e-flux architecture series Oceans

Anne McClintock

9 June 2020

e-flux

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

Online

Ocean-Archive

2020

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

Online

Ocean-Archive

2020

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

Online

Ocean-Archive

2020

More Blue’: An Artwork Shows the Sea Changing During Lockdown by Nina Siegal

New York Times

27 May 2020

New York Times

2020

The Sea and the Breathing

e-flux architecture series Oceans

Astrida Neimanis

24 May 2020

e-flux

2020

Critical Zones

ZKM

Oceans in Transformation - Architecture of the Continental Shelf

23 May 2020 – 8 August 2021

Karlsruhe

ZKM

2020

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

Online

Ocean-Archive

2020

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

Online

Ocean-Archive

2020

When Above

e-flux architecture series Oceans

John Palmesino and Ann-Sofi Rönnskog

20 May 2020

e-flux

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

Chiesa di San Lorenzo, Venice

Ocean-Archive

2020

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

Chiesa di San Lorenzo, Venice

Ocean-Archive

2020

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

e-flux

2020

When Above…

Ocean Space

Oceans in Transformation, unveiling facade installation

19 May 2020

Chiesa di San Lorenzo, Venice

Ocean-Archive

2020

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

Online

Ocean-Archive

2020

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

Online

Ocean-Archive

2020

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

Online

Ocean-Archive

2020

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

Online

Ocean-Archive

2020

Kiruna Forever

ArkDes

North Anon

24 April 2020 - 7 February 2021

Stockholm

ArkDes The Swedish Centre for Architecture and Designe-flux

2020

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

Online

Ocean-Archive

2020

All-Atlantic Ocean Research Forum

European Commission

Territorial Agency presents Oceans in Transformation

6 - 7 February 2020

EU Atlantic Maritime Strategy, European Commission, Brussels

European Commission

2020

Kiruna Forever

Arkitektur Förlag

Edited by Daniel Colling, Carlos Minguez Carrasco

2020

2019

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

TBA21-Academye-flux

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

18:30 GMT

Benjamin West Lecture Theatre, Burlington Gardens, London

Royal Academy of Arts

2019

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

18:30 GMT

AA Lecture Hall, London

AA Architectural Association

2019

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

18:30 GMT

AA Lecture Hall, London

AA Architectural Association

2019

European Space Agency

Smart City EXPO World Congress

Smart City - Smart Space: Metropolitan Regions workshop

21 November 2019

La Fiera, Barcelona

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

18:30 GMT

AA Lecture Hall, London

AA Architectural Association

2019

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

11:00-13:00

Chicago, USA

Chicago Architecture Biennial

2019

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

18:30 GMT

AA Lecture Hall, London

AA Architectural Association

2019

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

18:30 GMT

AA Lecture Hall, London

AA Architectural AssociationVideo Q&A

2019

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

18:30 GMT

AA Lecture Hall, London

AA Architectural Association

2019

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

18:30 GMT

AA Lecture Hall, London

AA Architectural Association

2019

Interview on Museum of Oil - American Rooms

Yale Paprika

Museum of Oil: Territorial Agency

10 October 2019

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

18:30 GMT

AA Lecture Hall, London

AA Architectural Association

2019

Plan the Planet

AA Think Tank

Announcement

5 October 2019

e-fluxe-flux

2019

Climate Summit – Architecture Education Declares and hosted by AAction

AAction

Arraying Territories keynote in AAction Climate Summit

4 October 2019

15:00 GMT

AA Lecture Hall, London

Architectural Association

2019

Data Visualization for Sounds Too Many

Francesca Thyssen-Bornemisza

An immersive lecture performance, Ocean Space, Venice

27 September 2019

Sounds Too Many

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

Chicago Cultural Center

Chicago Architecture Bienniale-flux

2019

Museum of Oil - American Rooms

Chicago Architecture Biennial

...and other such stories

2019

I segni del tempo - Revolutions and Recourses in the Anthropocene

Goethe-Institut Mailand in collaboration with Triennale Milano and HKW

Anthropocene - Roundtables

3 July 2019

09:00-18:00 CET

Milano

Triennale Milano

2019

Data Visualization for Sounds Too Many

Francesca Thyssen-Bornemisza

An immersive lecture performance, European Maritime Day, Lisbon, Portugal

17 May 2019

Sounds Too Many

2019

Messy Studio: Overfishing

TBA21–Academy, Ocean Space

With Jeremy Jackson, Boris Ondreicka, UNESCO

11 May 2019

Ocean Space, Venice

Ocean Archivee-flux

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

Sounds Too Many

2019

I segni del tempo

German exhibition Carceri d'Invenzione by Armin Linke and Anselm Franke, XXII Triennale di Milano

Video lecture

1 March - 1 September 2019

Milano

Triennale Milano

2019

Climate Change at the Building Scale PT.1 – Environmental Scale

GSAPP Columbia University

Introduction by Andrés Jaque, with Alon Schwabe and Daniel Fernández, Cooking Sections, John Palmesino, Territorial Agency with Museum of Oil

22 February 2019

13:00 EST

Wood Auditorium, Avery Hall, GSAPP Colombia, New York

GSAPPe-flux

2019

Ocean Data Challenge

United Nations

Keynote: Oceans in Transformation

17-18 January 2019

New York

IISDOcean Data Alliance

2019

The Geopolitics of Preservation

VOLUME 55

Interview to John Palmesino by Arjen Oosterman and Hyun Vin Kaspers

2019

Archis 2019 #1

Volume

2018

Reimagining spaces for future diplomacy through art and architecture

United Nations Library Talk

4 December 2018

Geneva

Global Development Impact

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

13:30-17:30 GMT

London

Design Museum

2018

Anthropocene Observatory

SPEAP SciencesPo

22 November 2018

Paris

SciencesPo

2018

Museum of Oil

SESC

Fields of Invisibility

2018

Fields of Invisibility

Sesc Belenzinho

Museum of Oil

9 November 2018 – 3 February 2019

São Paulo, Brazil

Sesce-flux

2018

All Hands on Deck

MIT

Oceans in Transformation, Messy Studios

6 - 10 November 2018

Cambridge Massachusetts

2018

Sensing the Oceans

TBA21

Lopoud Seminar 2018

30 September 2018

2018

Work Marathon 2018

Serpentine Galleries

BedIn with Beatriz Colomina

22 September 2018

London

Serpentine Galleriese-flux

2018

Territorial Agency: Fossils in Radical Kitchen

Serpentine Galleries

with Sissel Tolaas

6 September 2018

13:00 GMT

London

Serpentine Galleries

2018

Imagining a Tidalectic Worldview

TBA21

5 – 7 July 2018

2018

Sensing the Oceans

Museum of Modern Art and TBA21

4 July 2018

Dubrovnik

TBA21

2018

Climate Peace

Gaia Mother Tree Fondation Beyeler

Assembleia Mother Tree by Ernesto Neto

30 June - 1 July 2018

Zürich

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

Siegen

Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen

2018

The Spectral Landscapes of Oslo

AHO

Maximilian Schob dissertation followed by Territorial Agency

29 May 2018

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

15:00-18:00 CET

Venice

e-flux

2018

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

15:00-18:00 CET

Venice

e-flux

2018

AA Gallery Takover

AA Architectural Association

Technosphere

30 April - 12 May 2018

London

Architecture Exhibitions

2018

Enuma Elish

Superflex, TBA21-Academy

Convening

20 - 21 April 2018

Copenhagen

2018

Eco-Visionaries

MAAT

Museum of Oil

11 April - 8 October 2018

MAATe-flux

2018

Baltic Material Assemblies

AA Architectural Association

28 February 2018

RIBAe-flux

2018

Advisory committee

ROCA

29 January 2018

ROCA London Gallery

ROCAArchDaily

2018

Posthuman Glossary

Bloomsbury Academic

Edited by Rosi Braidotti and Maria Hlavajova

2018

2018

Remembering Landscape

snoek

Solid Sea Case 01 - The Ghost Ship 2002

2018

2018

Eco-Visionaries – art, architecture and new media after the anthropocene

Hatje Cantz

Edited by Pedro Gadanho

2018

2017

GAD Awards 17

TU Graz

Jury member

14 October 2017

Graz

TU Graz

2017

The institution as an agent of change

TBA21

Lopoud Seminar 2017

14 - 17 September 2017

Lopoud, Croatia

TBA21

2017

Technosphere

ROM

Exhibition of AHO Master students

1 June 2017

Oslo

ROM

2017

Mark Williams inaugurates Technosphere

ROM

Exhibition of AHO Master students

1 June 2017

Oslo

2017

Seminar Technosphere

AHO, Goldsmiths, AA

with Mark Williams, Jan Zalasiewiz, Colin Waters

6 March 2017

AA, London

2017

London Mega Crit

Architecture Foundation

Invited as critics

2 March 2017

Royal College of Art, London

Architecture Foundation

2017

The Noise of Being

Sonic Acts Festival

Anthropocene Tipping Points

24 February 2017

16:00-17:30 CET

De Brakke Grond, Amsterdam

Sonic ActsVideo 2

2017

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

18:00 GMT

AA, London

AA

2017

Technosphere

AHO

Master Programme in Landscape and Urbanism

2017

Oslo

AHO

2016

Territorial Agency - New Modes of Existence

gencat and Santa Monica

INTENSIFICATIONS—Territorial Transformations in the Anthropocene

2 December 2016

Cloister Max Cahner, Barcelona

gencat

2016

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

The Anthropocene Review

2016

Tensegrity – and other Contradictory Complicities

Tenderpixel

Symposium curated by Sarah Zürcher

18 November 2016

London

Goldsmiths

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

Istanbul

Istanbul Design Bienniale-flux