EXD’09 Lisboa I It’s About Time

GMG was the co-curator and director of the EXD Biennale’s 5th edition.

After a break in 2007 and the realization of an edition in Amsterdam in 2008, the EXD Biennale returned to Lisbon in 2009 with the theme It’s About Time.

The theme proposed a critical look at the multiple impacts of time on design, architecture, and contemporary creative practices, as well as how these disciplines, in turn, could contribute to the formulation of new definitions of urgency, speed, and deceleration.

This edition was preceded by the EXD’09 Warm-Up in Lisbon, featuring an exhibition on the work of Peter Zumthor, which included a lecture by the architect, as a launch for the theme.

The 2009 edition brought together 287 participants from 28 countries and recorded a total of 145,509 visitors.