From June 3 to 5, 2026, Tirana hosts the second edition of the Bread & Heart Festival, bringing together leading European architecture studios — including Stefano Boeri Architetti — in a shared environment of dialogue, reflection, hospitality, and exchange, with Stefano Boeri taking part in several events.
Under the theme Landscapes of Abundance, this year’s edition shifts its attention from isolated buildings to the spaces between them: the landscapes, ecologies, infrastructures, and living systems that shape Albania. Framed by the curatorial idea “From Portrait to Landscape“, the Festival explores how architecture, landscape architecture, planning, art, ecology, and culture can collectively respond to the rapid transformations happening across the country.
Through talks, exhibitions, workshops, films, performances, publications, food, and informal encounters, the Festival creates opportunities for local and international practitioners, institutions, artists, media, researchers, and audiences to meet and engage with one another.
In this context, on June 4 at 11:20 AM Stefano Boeri participates in the dialogue Tirana “Drill Hole”, alongside Ellena Ehrl, Olga Bolshanina, Kuehn Malvezzi, Filippo Innocenti, ALAA, and moderator Johan Anrys.
Stefano Boeri is also involved at 2:30 PM in a round table titled Thinking and Designing Like a Forest, together with architect Chris Precht and architecture curator consultant Vanessa Norwood, moderated by Dan Handel, architect and curator.
Finally, at 12:30 PM the book Stefano Boeri/Amos Gitai. A Private Glossary is presented, with the authors in attendance.
For more information and the full program: https://breadandheartfestival.al/