Who gets to play, and who remains on the sidelines? Curator Amanda Pinatih and social designer Gabriel Fontana explore new, more inclusive forms of sport and play at Concéntrico.
Building on their collaboration for the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale, Pinatih and Fontana have co-developed an educational programme for this edition that brings together students and teachers from several La Rioja schools. Using a toolkit and a series of exercises, students investigate the social dynamics of sports fields in the (semi-)public realm and, based on their observations, collectively redesign the shape of these fields and the rules that govern them, imagining new modes of togetherness.
After completing their designs, participants gather at Concéntrico to present their ideas to one another, followed by a Multiform tournament. Multiform —a sports-based design project by Gabriel Fontana— combines a new team game, transformable uniforms and a three-sided sports field, encouraging players to negotiate, resist and reconfigure existing social power structures and body norms through embodied learning.
An intervention at Parque Gallarza, created in collaboration with scenographers Koos Breen and Jeannette Slütter, has been specially designed for the project. Locals and visitors are invited to play Multiform on selected days or to explore the field in their own way, turning sport into a cultural act and play into a tool for rethinking coexistence in public space.
About Concéntrico
Concéntrico was established in 2015 as the International Festival of Architecture and Design of Logroño, proposing an annual reflection on the urban environment and the city. As a laboratory of urban innovation with an international outlook, the project invites exploration of the city through installations, exhibitions, meetings, and activities that propose new collective uses, strengthening the idea of community in public space.
