As a mirror aimed at Lisbon Architecture Triennale motto, The Form of Form, Artéria’s proposal — Formulate, Formalize, Perform appears as a methodological formulation aiming the practice of architecture. Following the momentum captured by 2016 Triennale — the scission between the production of star system formalisms and more socially engaged practices, THE POWER OF EXPERIMENT is looking at what stands for an architectural approach and claims the attention for an urgent observation on what we call forms of practice.

THE POWER OF EXPERIMENT explores strategies for collaborative learning and practice, working through collective conceptualization and action, based on three experiences: Formulate, Formalize, Perform. The workshop also saw the possibilities of these strategies and methods of collaboration tested through an experience of speculative and performative construction. Four days of experiments focused on expanded notions of thought/conception/construction to produce a common space not focused on the capacity of Architecture to reproduce, represent or serve a specific use, but on the performative power of construction.

THE POWER OF EXPERIMENT aims a methodological responsible approach engaged with local contexts to generate a contextualized and situated practice. THE POWER OF EXPERIMENT claims for an architecture that addresses and questions the world in transformation, in urban and rural contexts, aware of its role in political programs and environmental situations and challenging the diversity of socioeconomical systems.