Architecture Fringe

01/06/2026

Thanks to everyone who joined us tonight for the Peoples Emergency Briefing; great to see so many people there. Thanks to the panel for their thoughtful contributions, for chairing and .a.colvin for organising. Hope to be able to share the recording of the post-show discussion in the near future.

01/06/2026

22/05/2026

Would you like to stay in a beautiful Scottish Arts & Crafts house, whilst learning from some wonderful facilitators? Well, you can!

This July, we are excited to be holding our Summer School at the wonderful Hospitalfield House, in the coastal town of Arbroath, Scotland. It has a range of heritage and contemporary workshop spaces, as well as landscaped and wild garden areas to experiment and create.

With the option to stay within the house itself, its surrounding buildings, or even camp within the grounds of Hopitalfield, there is something for everyone.

Applications for the Summer School must be submitted by this Sunday, 24th May.

Find out more information from the link in our bio.

20/05/2026

🌱Sophie Dyer & Alison Scott, facilitators in Summer Assembly: Earth Station at Hospitalfield

🌍Summer Assembly: Earth Station
📆12-17 July 2026
📍Hospitalfield, Arbroath, Scotland
👀Applications are now open! closing Sunday 24 May
‼️Online information session 6pm Tuesday 19 May 2026

A week-long residential programme gathering 40 participants across disciplines to engage in a dynamic, collaborative environment.

Over five days, Earth Station will unfold through five thematic lenses - Material, Making, Movement, Maintenance, and Myth - offering participants a unique framework to interrogate and reimagine the role of architecture and design in a rapidly changing world. Through workshops, discussions, and collective experimentation, attendees will explore how these themes intersect with urgent global challenges and emerging creative practices.

Insurgent Meteorologies, led by artist Soph Dyer, experiments with radio and sound technologies to create a series of expanded weather forecasts to be broadcast in and outwith Scotland. Resonating with inspiring ideas of the climate beyond the meteorological, the work of the Dundee Satellite Receiving Station, and Yazan Khalili’s Radio Alhara proposition for new ‘structures of connectivity’, Insurgent Meteorologies will reimagine weather forecasting for an era of climate crisis. The work will be technical, poetic, and political – all at once! To guide us in tuning to local frequencies, Soph will be joined by Angus-based artist and writer Alison Scott. How we work together will be of equal importance to what we produce.

Summer Assembly: Earth Station is supported by Multi-Year Funding from Creative Scotland

Full details and to apply head to architecturefringe.com and via our bio.

19/05/2026

🌱Akiko Kobayashi with Ben Williams, facilitators in Summer Assembly: Earth Station

🌍Summer Assembly: Earth Station
📆12-17 July 2026
📍Hospitalfield, Arbroath, Scotland
👀Applications are now open! closing Sunday 24 May
‼️Online information session 6pm Tuesday 19 May 2026

A week-long residential programme gathering 40 participants across disciplines to engage in a dynamic, collaborative environment.

Over five days, Earth Station will unfold through five thematic lenses - Material, Making, Movement, Maintenance, and Myth - offering participants a unique framework to interrogate and reimagine the role of architecture and design in a rapidly changing world. Through workshops, discussions, and collective experimentation, attendees will explore how these themes intersect with urgent global challenges and emerging creative practices.

Through the lens of somatic embodied experiences, Thatch and Scale by designer Akiko Kobayashi and woodworker Ben Williams will provide an introduction to the craft of thatching at 3.5 scales: the sheltering roof, the subtle body, and the tensioned hand. Visiting the context in which the reed grows to glimpse the life of the material before it’s harvested, participants will then mix some basic lathing and thatching instruction on a small scale building with bodily movement work (butoh) as an exploration of gross motor function and hand knotting work (macrame) as an exercising of fine motor skills.

Summer Assembly: Earth Station is supported by Multi-Year Funding from Creative Scotland

Full details and to apply head to architecturefringe.com and via our bio.

18/05/2026

🌱Marf Summers, participant in Summer Assembly: Earth Station

🌍Summer Assembly: Earth Station
📆12-17 July 2026
📍Hospitalfield, Arbroath, Scotland
👀Applications are now open! closing Sunday 24 May
‼️Online information session 6pm Tuesday 19 May 2026

A week-long residential programme gathering 40 participants across disciplines to engage in a dynamic, collaborative environment.

Over five days, Earth Station will unfold through five thematic lenses - Material, Making, Movement, Maintenance, and Myth - offering participants a unique framework to interrogate and reimagine the role of architecture and design in a rapidly changing world. Through workshops, discussions, and collective experimentation, attendees will explore how these themes intersect with urgent global challenges and emerging creative practices.

Stone (Butch) Circle seeks out continuances between the ancient past and present moment led by London-based architect, artist and leatherworker Marf Summers. As meaningful image making finds itself threatened by an attention economy and uncritical AI use, spontaneous and deeply embodied forms of making take on a new resistant potency. In Stone (Butch) Circle participants will engage directly with ancient and contemporary crafts, centring the multi-sensory act of making itself, framing process as performance in its own right. We will explore ideas about (q***r) self-fashioning and folk costuming, leaning into uncertainty by making through improvisation and mending.

Summer Assembly: Earth Station is supported by Multi-Year Funding from Creative Scotland

Full details and to apply head to architecturefringe.com and via our bio.

18/05/2026

📣 Quick reminder! We have an online info session tomorrow (Tuesday) evening, 6pm GMT for anyone interested in finding out more and taking part in our summer school: *Earth Station*… event registration link in bio!

Come and find out more about this exciting new residential learning programme, facilitated by .rebearth and and taking place at

Deadlines for application are midnight Sunday; 24.05.26 🌿 (link for that in bio too!)

15/05/2026

🌱Becky Little, participant in Summer Assembly: Earth Station .rebearth

🌍Summer Assembly: Earth Station
📆12-17 July 2026
📍Hospitalfield, Arbroath, Scotland
👀Applications are now open! closing midnight Sunday 24 May 2026
‼️Online information session 6pm Tuesday 19 May 2026

A week-long residential programme gathering 40 participants across disciplines to engage in a dynamic, collaborative environment.

Over five days, Earth Station will unfold through five thematic lenses - Material, Making, Movement, Maintenance, and Myth - offering participants a unique framework to interrogate and reimagine the role of architecture and design in a rapidly changing world. Through workshops, discussions, and collective experimentation, attendees will explore how these themes intersect with urgent global challenges and emerging creative practices.

The Continuum of Earth by artist/builder Becky Little is an immersive, hands-on workshop exploring earth as a living material shaped through time, practice and place. With learning rooted in doing, participants will work directly with soil, fibres and simple tools to understand how materials behave, and how they respond to touch, time and environment. The continuum refers both to states of earth and to a range of vernacular methods, moving from loose material to bound form, from wet to dry, and from small-scale testing through to construction and sculptural work. Knowledge emerges through practice and close attention, and making becomes a way of learning from earth itself.

Summer Assembly: Earth Station is supported by Multi-Year Funding from Creative Scotland

Full details and to apply head to architecturefringe.com and via our bio.

13/05/2026

Interested in applying for our Summer School, but want to know more about it? We are holding an online Q&A and Information session on Tuesday 19th May at 6pm. To register, please follow the link in our bio. Look forward to seeing you then!

10/05/2026

Two weeks to go! Applications close for our International Summer School on 24 May! Go to the link in our bio to find out more…

Taking place from 12-17 July 2026, *Earth Station* will be facilitated by Marf Summers, Becky Little (Rebearth), Soph Dyer and Alison Scott, Akiko Kobayashi and Ben Williams, using making and materials to explore new ideas for architecture and design.

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