4 October 2025 – 11 January 2026
​Partnership between MUDE – Museu do Design and the Lisbon Architecture Triennale

MUDE is once again participating in the Lisbon Architecture Triennale, hosting one of the three central exhibitions of the Seventh Edition, How Heavy Is a City?

The exhibition 'Spectres' is part of MUDE's programme as it continues the museum's ongoing focus on the needs of Planet Earth, questioning the ways in which we inhabit territories and the need to respect all forms of life. It is urgent to move from reflection and debate to the implementation of ideas that consider the importance of living in synergy with the Ecosphere.

The ‘Spectres’ exhibition presents multidisciplinary proposals that reflect the transformative potential of collective creative processes and experimental research currently underway, where design and architecture, contemporary art, history, science and emerging technologies come together and expand, seeking answers to questions such as: ‘What is a natural landscape?’, ‘How can we rethink water as a common good?’, ‘What is the sound of the Earth?’, ‘Where is sea level?’, ‘How can we welcome alien ecology?’ or ‘How fragile are infrastructures?’.

Thus, with this exhibition, MUDE's programme reinforces the dissemination of different expressions of design as a discipline of project, showing, in this case, the contribution of speculative design to the definition and implementation of new ideas with a view to building a more just and sustainable future.

Trienal de Arquitectura de Lisboa