Diego Rodriguez, Head of Architectural Design at KREAN and Associate Professor in the Department of Architecture at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), together with Professors Diego Sologuren and Iñigo Viar, and in collaboration with the IED Kunsthal and students from both institutions, has presented the installation ‘Concordia homes’ as part of the research project entitled ‘Pseudotopias’, within the framework of the 5th edition of the Euskadi Mugak International Architecture Biennial, which is currently being held and has established itself as one of the main architectural events in the Atlantic Arc.

Organised by the Basque Government's Department of Housing and Urban Agenda, in 2025 it is furthering its desire to be an open space, the result of collaboration between various agents, to become a meeting point with citizens where the importance of architecture as the element that underpins the quality of the inhabited environment can be highlighted.

This year's edition of Mugak/ focuses on the theme ‘Castles in the Air’. The Biennial is thus conceived as a cultural infrastructure open to the public and all those involved in urban life, with the aim of generating conversations and reflections that connect with the debates taking place at a global level.

Pseudotopias

The project proposes a reflection on the persistence of representation, fiction and abstraction in contemporary architecture.

From utopia—understood as desire and possibility—it explores the ways in which architecture has responded to the tension between the real and the imagined.

In an installation presented at Bilbao's Concordia station, through a series of images and walk-through scenes, visitors are invited to choose their place, to stand in front of an image—generated by artificial intelligence—as a metaphor for our dissolution between possible worlds.