Migration, displacement, flight — this year’s Oslo Architecture Biennale taps into some of the most pressing challenges of the globalized world today. Running from September 8 through November 27, “After Belonging: A Triennale In Residence, On Residence and the Ways We Stay in Transit”  encourages debate through intervention strategies, exhibitions, talks, discussions, and a conference.Two exhibitions will showcase and summarize the most pressing issues on the agenda. “In Residence,” at the National Museum for Architecture, will take a closer look at the “contemporary transformation of belonging” as well as strategies that investigate architectural practices applied today. The show comprises 1:1 test structures, scale models, and representations for public debate, complemented by further materials generated by architects, journalists, artists, and thinkers. It will investigate 10 different sites, including a digitally rented and shared apartment in Copenhagen; a reception center for asylum seekers in Oslo; a personalized cubicle in a self-storage facility in New York City; and a textile factory in Italy, in one of the biggest Chinatowns in Europe.Meanwhile, the complementary exhibition “On Residence” at the Norwegian Centre for Design and Architecture, DOGA, analyzes the role of architecture in current issues such as migration, flight, and homelessness. In the words of the organizers, the show aims to “dissect the architectures entangled in the contemporary reconfiguration of belonging, showing how these architectures play a role in redefining residence and its spatial, aesthetic, technical, and sociopolitical implications of this redefinition.”“Technologies of a Life in Transit”, “Furnishing After Belonging”, “Markets and Territories of the Global Home”, “Borders Elsewhere”, and “Sheltering Temporariness” are the five sections that make up this exhibition. Its particular interest lies in understanding “the relation of architecture to current pressing questions like refugeeism, migration and homelessness; new mediated forms of domesticity and foreignness; environmental displacements; tourism and the contemporary technologies and economies of sharing,” as the organizers explain.The Triennale conference at the Oslo Opera House on September 9 will further explore the issues raised in the two main exhibitions with an international panel of architects, theoreticians, and decision makers, who have been invited to productive solutions for some of the most urgent problems today.Oslo Architecture Triennale 2016 runs from September 8 to November 27, 2016, at various locations in Oslo. Click here for the program.See the full list of participants at the core program below.Take a Sneak Preview of the Triennale in the slide show. All participants of Oslo Architecture Triennale 2016 core program:Adrian Lahoud; Ahmet Öğüt & Emily Fahlén; Amale Andraos; Andrés Jaque/Office for Political Innovation; Arjun Appadurai; Atelier Bow-Wow; Bengler; Bouchra Khalili; Caitlin Blanchfield, Glen Cummings, Jaffer Kolb, Farzin Lotfi-Jam & Leah Meisterlin; Center for Political Beauty; Cristina López Uribe; Cooking Sections (Daniel Fernández Pascual & Alon Schwabe); Coralie Gourguechon; Deane Simpson; Design Earth; Didier Fassin; Einar Sneve Martinussen & Jørn Knutsen; Elisabeth Søiland, Silje Klepsvik & Åsne Hagen; Emeka Ogboh; Enorme Studio; Eriksen Skajaa Architects; Eyal Weizman; Factory-baked Goods; Felicity D. Scott; Femke Herregraven; FFB; First Office; Folder; Frida Escobedo & Guillermo Ruiz de Teresa; Grete Brochman; Gro Bonesmo; Hu Fang; Husos; Ijlal Muzaffar; Ippolito Pestellini Laparelli; Iver Neumann; James Bridle; James D. Graham; Jeffrey Schnapp; Jesse LeCavalier; Jill Magid; John Harwood; Juan Herreros; Kadambari Baxi, Janette Kim, Meg McLagan, David Schiminovich & Mark Wasiuta; Keller Easterling; Kër Thiossane with Amadou Kane Sy; Khaled Malas; Laura Kurgan, Juan Saldarriaga & Angelika Rettberg; L.E.FT & Lawrence Abu Hamdan; Living Architectures; Louise Amoore; Lorenzo Pezzani & Charles Heller; Luis Callejas & Charlotte Hansson; Mabel Wilson; Martha Rosler & Pelin Tan; Martti Kalliala; Merve Bedir; Michel Feher; Nabil Ahmed & Dámaso Randulfe; Negar Azimi; Nora Akawi, Nina V. Kolowratnik, Johannes Pointl & Eduardo Rega; Matilde Cassani; OMA; Pa.LaC.E; Pamela Karimi; Paulo Tavares; Paulo Moreira, Ana Naomi de Sousa & Pétur Waldorff; Per Heggenes/IKEA Foundation; Reinhold Martin; ROTOR; Ruimteveldwerk; estudio SIC | VIC; Snøhetta; Sputniko!; Studio Jonas Staal with the Communities of Rojava; Supersudaca; Superunion; Territorial Agency; The State (Rahel Aima, Ahmad Makia, Deepak Unnikrishnan); Thomas Hylland Eriksen; Thomas Keenan; Transborder Studio; Troy Conrad Therrien; TYIN Tegnestue; Unfold; Yasmeen Lari. Read more