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04 June - 10 July

Children’s Rights and Dreams for the Future, Wiggle Wonderland

Wiggle Wonderland | Installations

What do children and young people want for their future? How do they want their future cities to look and…

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01 June - 30 June

30 Objects in 30 Days: Act

London Festival of Architecture | Audio and video projects

What 'object' best represents 'act' and 'architecture' for you? For the third edition of LFA's 30 Objects in 30 Days,…

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01 June - 31 July

‘Over Here’ – Pop Up Cycle Parking

Iain Jamieson | Installations

‘Over Here’ proposes a multi coloured bike rack designed by Iain Jamieson to help resolve a common commuter stress for…

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04 June - 25 June

Paint our mural!

Somers Town Museum - A Space for us | Family Events

ACT! - play your part in re-making history in a working class area of Somers Town. Join us in decolonising…

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01 June - 30 June

Introduction to Architecture – Geodesic Dome Workshop (HHB Architects)

London Borough of Newham, Mayor's Construction Academy (MCA) | Family Events

As architects Henley Halebrown believe that the built environment is something that we all should enjoy. It is where we…

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25 June 2022

Your Legacy Build

Atomik Architecture Limited | Family Events

The event is a hands-on family workshop suitable for children in KS1/2, ages 5-11. At this workshop you will explore…

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18 June 2022

Build an Animated City – Sensory Clay Workshop at the RSBC Life Without Limits Centre

EPR Architects | Family Events

Join EPR Architects and celebrated ceramicists Clayground Collective at the RSBC (Royal Society for Blind Children) Life Without Limits Centre…

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26 June 2022

Special performance with children and young people from Chickenshed

Allford Hall Monaghan Morris | Family Events

Children and young people from charity and inclusive theatre company, Chickenshed, have been exploring RIBA HQ in advance of its…

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Press Highlights

18 June 2022

Touch tour of The RSBC Life Without Limits Centre

EPR Architects | Family Events

Join EPR Architects at the RSBC (Royal Society for Blind Children) Life Without Limits Centre for an immersive sensory touch…

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Press Highlights

11 June 2022

Act-ivate!

MATT+FIONA | Family Events

Get ready to re-imagine London through a day of big building and creative making with architecture educators, MATT+FIONA at Hackney…

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Press Highlights

17 June 2022

Delivering an inclusive design legacy

London Legacy Development Corporation | Talks and Debates

Inclusive design has been at the cornerstone of delivering London 2012 and the regeneration of this part of East London.…

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17 June 2022

Speaking Architect/ure

University of Westminster | Talks and Debates

As architects and researchers, who do we speak for and who speaks louder? How do we give voice without assuming…

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Press Highlights

23 June 2022

Queer Spaces: An Atlas of LGBTQIA+ Places and Stories

Grimshaw | Talks and Debates

From forming a staging area for community action, to encouraging safe places for identity exploration, the spaces in which we…

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Press Highlights

22 June 2022

The Built Environment: does it serve Disabled people?

Disability Rights UK | Talks and Debates

Did you know that a fifth of the population of the UK is Disabled? That's 14 million people. Have you…

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17 June 2022

Skate Dots – more skateable spaces

London Legacy Development Corporation | Talks and Debates

The panel discussion and walk will take place at the UCL East Marshgate site within Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, which…

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Press Highlights

16 June 2022

How can we Design Cities for Women?

London Legacy Development Corporation | Talks and Debates

The recent focus and increased media coverage on the issue of violence against women and girls in public spaces, which…

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22 June 2022

Saving Aleppo’s Heritage Stories from Local Graduate Architects

Places of ARcture | Talks and Debates

London Festival of Architecture in collaboration with Places of ARcture with the support of the British Council are inviting Local…

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Press Highlights

07 June 2022

Speaking out: can architects make a difference?

Royal Academy of Arts | Talks and Debates

Following the RA Architecture Symposium, this debate will explore the LFA theme of 'Act' by questioning how architects can and…

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16 June 2022

From The Town of Bedrock

Webb Yates Engineers Ltd | Talks and Debates

Stone and timber are not unusual materials to find on a construction site by any measure, in fact people respond…

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Press Highlights

11 June 2022

Manifestos: Architecture for a New Generation 2022

the Design Museum | Talks and Debates

Manifestos returns for the 4th year to present radical calls to action from an emerging generation of voices in architecture…

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10 June 2022

Lights, Camera, ACT: what’s next for architecture filmmaking?

Hawkins\Brown | Studio Lates

Films, movies, reels, stories, shorts, GIFS… moving image is rapidly becoming the dominant form of online communication. Yet, the built…

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Press Highlights

24 June 2022

Arup e | Lab

Zoe Megins-Davies (Arup Venues) | Studio Lates

Arup ExperienceLab is the pinnacle of Arup’s immersive offering; an experiential studio that combines head-tracked VR imaging and 3D spatial…

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Press Highlights

25 June 2022

Invisible Tales

Jordan Whitewood-Neal, James Zatka Haas, Anna Curtz Price | Performances

Invisible Tales invites disabled creatives to share and reflect on the day-to-day interactions between disabled people and the city. Whether…

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Press Highlights

25 June 2022

Tensed Muscles at Maiden Lane Estate

London Borough of Camden | Audio and video projects Performances

A live music and visual event to celebrate the album of sound and images by artists Steffi Klenz, Brownsilla and…

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02 June 2022

Radical Printing!

Somers Town Museum - A Space for us | Workshops

Create your own activist designs in these radical screen-printing workshops. Be inspired by the local tradition of activism – Ossulston…

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17 June 2022

Perfect Day

Studio McLeod | Workshops

Studio McLeod’s approach has been described as Architectural Therapy. We invite you to a half hour ‘Perfect Day’ session, offering…

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24 June 2022

Architecture Acts: A Climate Performance in Three Parts

University of Westminster | Workshops

Architecture Acts asks participants to think beyond carbon calculations as architecture’s response to climate change. It is predicated on the…

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Press Highlights

18 June - 29 June

Setting the Scene

Sarah Wigglesworth Architects | Workshops

The SWA team are committed to shaping a more diverse and inclusive built environment. This event is an opportunity to…

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Press Highlights

18 June 2022

How to Change Grey to Green

PDP London | Workshops

In this workshop session, participants will learn how to create green connections between people and nature. We all have a…

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23 June 2022

Innovation through Sustainable Materials in the Royal Docks

University of East London | Workshops

Join us for a hands-on, interactive session exploring innovative and carbon neutral sustainable materials at the heart of the Royal…

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Press Highlights

16 June 2022

Radical Printing!

Somers Town Museum - A Space for us | Workshops

Create your own activist designs in these radical screen-printing workshops. Be inspired by the local tradition of activism – Ossulston…

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Press Highlights

25 June 2022

Re-Fabricate Circular Retrofit Workshop 1: Materials

Re-Fabricate | Workshops

Retrofitting London’s buildings is one of the biggest challenges currently facing architecture. It is a vital act in decarbonising the…

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Press Highlights

26 June 2022

Re-Fabricate Circular Retrofit Workshop 2: Assembly

Re-Fabricate | Workshops

Retrofitting London’s buildings is one of the biggest challenges currently facing architecture. It is a vital act in decarbonising the…

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Press Highlights

23 June 2022

Ceramics Workshop: Hand-coil an irrigation pot for our Floating Garden

Global Generation | Workshops

Come and co-create with clay for our new Floating Garden! Global Generation is an environmental education charity, growing food, people…

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Press Highlights

16 June 2022

Architectural walking tour of English National Ballet and London City Island

Glenn Howells Architects | Walks and Tours

London City Island has been transformed in recent years from a disused industrial site into a thriving, fine-grained, arts inspired…

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29 June 2022

A Walk in 3 Acts

Alison Rae | Walks and Tours

Focusing on how actions and interventions of the past 50 years have impacted and created the cityscape of the Covent…

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28 June 2022

A Walk in 3 Acts

Alison Rae | Walks and Tours

Focusing on how action and interventions of the past 50 years have impacted and created the cityscape of today's Covent…

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30 June 2022

A Walk in 3 Acts

Alison Rae | Walks and Tours

Focusing on how action and interventions of the past 50 years have impacted and created the cityscape of the Covent…

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Press Highlights

08 June 2022

Exclusive Tour of the New Museum of London at West Smithfield

Stanton Williams | Walks and Tours

Join representatives from the Museum of London and Stanton Williams on a tour of the museum’s future home at West…

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Press Highlights

29 June 2022

The Great Court: Architecture in Context

British Museum | Walks and Tours

Led by British Museum staff, join an in-person guided tour of the Great Court of the British Museum, looking at…

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29 June 2022

The Great Court: Architecture in Context

British Museum | Walks and Tours

Led by British Museum staff, join an in-person guided tour of the Great Court of the British Museum, looking at…

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Press Highlights

30 June 2022

Action on film: UTOPIA LONDON

Susan Okokon, EXCAVATING DIVERSITY, Sponsored by MAIL BOXES ETC Streatham, and CRESSINGHAM GARDENS, Resident Management Community Interest Company. | Film Screenings

ACTION ON FILM: UTOPIA LONDON Award-winning film classic UTOPIA LONDON (2010), will have its London Festival of Architecture premier, as…

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Press Highlights

30 June 2022

Exhibition by CSM’s Architecture Degree Studio 11: ‘Act’ to ‘decolonise climate and socially responsive design’

CSM Architecture Studio 11 | Exhibitions

The effects of climate change are known to be disproportionately affecting the socio-economically vulnerable communities, living in high risk areas,…

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Press Highlights

26 June 2022

Café ODYSSEY: Daap-Toi

Café ODYSSEY | Walks and Tours

On the last weekend of June, Café ODYSSEY proudly presents its very first virtual social event with a reviving and…

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Press Highlights

21 June - 26 July

Key Actors in the Royal Docks: Introduction

London Festival of Architecture | Audio and video projects

Following on from our ‘Power Podcasts’ series, for LFA2022 we're sharing five new stories, exploring the key people and projects…

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Press Highlights

24 June - 12 August

“A MODERNIST GEM”: The Battle for Leigham Court Sheltered Housing Scheme: EXHIBITION

Susan Okokon, EXCAVATING DIVERSITY, Sponsored by MAIL BOXES ETC Streatham, and CRESSINGHAM GARDENS, Resident Management Community Interest Company. | Exhibitions

This EXHIBITION and the community which inspired it, embodies this year's London Festival of Architecture’s theme: ACT! “A MODERNIST GEM”…

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24 June 2022

‘A MODERNIST GEM’: LAUNCH

Susan Okokon, EXCAVATING DIVERSITY, Sponsored by MAIL BOXES ETC Streatham, and CRESSINGHAM GARDENS, Resident Management Community Interest Company. | Exhibitions

EXHIBITION & PROGRAMME “A MODERNIST GEM”: THE BATTLE TO SAVE LEIGHAM COURT SHELTERED HOUSING SCHEME - Friday 24th June, 5pm…

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23 June 2022

The Making of UCL’s New Campus

Stanton Williams | Walks and Tours

Join the team behind UCL East on a guided tour of one of London’s most ambitious developments, which will see…

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25 June 2022

The Making of UCL’s New Campus

Stanton Williams | Walks and Tours

Join the team behind UCL East on a guided tour of one of London’s most ambitious developments, which will see…

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Press Highlights

29 June - 08 July

The Finnish Sauna

Finnish Institute in the UK and Ireland | Installations

The renowned Finnish architect Sami Rintala and architectural students from the prestigious School of Architecture + Cities at the University…

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Press Highlights

09 June - 30 June

Lateral Flow @ Siemens Home London

London Festival of Architecture | Audio and video projects Installations

Lateral Flow, by WallaceLiu (Jamie Wallace and Jee Liu) @ Siemens Home London Watching the slow movement of water across…

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Press Highlights

30 June 2022

Power of Opportunities

Felstead Art | Exhibitions

The social reawakening that following such events as a global pandemic urge personal reassessments in all of us. We must…

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Press Highlights

01 June - 30 June

Power Podcasts: Revealing the Silent Structures of the Royal Docks

London Festival of Architecture in collaboration with the Royal Docks Team | Audio and video projects

As part of LFA2020, the LFA worked closely with the Royal Docks Team on an exciting architecture podcast series ‘Power…

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Press Highlights

23 June - 30 September

David Böhm & Jiří Franta: Who Tells Whom About What

Czech Centre | Exhibitions

Using imaginary city models with staged micro stories, leading Czech artists David Böhm & Jiří Franta draw on current social…

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Press Highlights

10 June - 30 June

UNFURLED @ Gaggenau

London Festival of Architecture | Audio and video projects Installations

UNFURLED, by HAGENHINDERDAEL (Lisa Hinderdael and Sofia Hagen) @ Gaggenau Working with paper as the raw material, UNFURLED is a…

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Press Highlights

10 June - 30 June

Choose Love @ Billi

London Festival of Architecture | Audio and video projects Installations

Choose Love, by It's a local collective with Tom Tse (Lisa Chan and Tom Tse) @ Billi UK Choose Love…

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10 June - 30 June

The Floating Column @ VitrA

London Festival of Architecture | Audio and video projects Installations

The Floating Column, by Space A (Amelia Hunter and Anna Drakes) @ VitrA Bathrooms Our starting point was to celebrate…

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Press Highlights

13 June - 30 June

Meet the Designers: Showroom Showcase

London Festival of Architecture | Audio and video projects

As part of LFA 2022, the LFA unveiled the winning installations for the Showroom Showcase design competition. We chatted to…

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20 June - 26 June

Saving Aleppo’s Heritage Stories from Local Graduate Architects

Places of ARcture | Exhibitions

London Festival of Architecture in collaboration with Places of ARcture and with the support of the British Council have invited…

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25 June 2022

Reviving Bishopsgate: A Building Tour by Fletcher Priest Architects

Fletcher Priest Architects | Walks and Tours

Our tour will take visitors behind the scenes of the 300-m long Bishopsgate complex built over Liverpool Street Railway Station…

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Press Highlights

23 June 2022

What Does It Mean To Act?

Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios | Talks and Debates

FCBStudios are teaming up once again with PechaKucha Nights to put on an evening of faced-paced presentations which respond to…

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06 June 2022

A City for Everyone: A Beginner’s Guide to Urbanism

Czech Centre | Talks and Debates

How do we relate to something as huge and complex as a city? How do we read a city? Increasing…

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Press Highlights

16 June 2022

About a New Togetherness

Architectural Association | Talks and Debates

This roundtable discussion between AA Summer School tutors will discuss how architects, designers and researchers can act together with communities…

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01 June 2022

Royal College of Physicians Museum Late: architecture special

Royal College of Physicians Museum | Walks and Tours

Join us after hours to explore our Grade I listed home, discover the architectural plans and documents behind its design,…

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13 June - 21 August

The Lebanese House

V&A Museum | Installations

The Lebanese House Saving a home Saving a city The Lebanese House: saving a home; saving a city is an…

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06 June - 30 June

Meet the Designers: Pews and Perches

London Festival of Architecture | Audio and video projects

We are so excited to unveil this year’s winning benches for the Royal Docks Pews and Perches competition. Over the…

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Press Highlights

09 June 2022

Community Actors: a role for everyone

Fluid | Soundings | Talks and Debates

How can those designing London’s future best work with local communities to be actors in the strengthening, reshaping, and revival…

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08 June 2022

The Net Zero Pavilion

Fuse Architects | Installations

The Net Zero Pavilion seeks to demonstrate the ability to deliver Net Zero Carbon using Category 2 off-site manufactured solutions…

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02 June - 30 June

“Modern Carpet with Endless Entertainment for you Friends”

Akezhan Zhunussov | Installations

Heath Robinson is a British artist famous for his illustrations of ad hoc mechanisms for every day tasks. Although overcomplicated…

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01 June - 31 August

the Mobile Arboretum in Cheapside

Wayward | Installations

The installation is inspired by the collective history of the London markets. Both Cheapside and Aldgate have been or still…

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01 June - 31 August

the Mobile Arboretum in Aldgate

Wayward | Installations

The installation is inspired by the collective history of the London markets. Both Aldgate and Cheapside have been or still…

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15 June 2022

Urbanistas Expo

UrbanistasLDN | Talks and Debates

The UrbanistasLDN Expo are female-only events that empower fellow Urbanistas to take forward their work & ideas. On our 10th…

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11 June - 26 June

Uncivic Space: an uncomfortable exhibition exploring hostile architecture

dn&co | Exhibitions

Our cities are finally opening up and public places are welcoming us back. But in some overlooked corners, urban design…

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28 June - 30 June

The Liveable City

Embassy of Denmark in the United Kingdom | Conferences

The Liveable City is a British-Danish dialogue celebrating architecture and urban planning where central and local governments, businesses, politicians and…

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10 June 2022

Anti-colonial routes & Black Radicals: Somers Town

Somers Town Museum - A Space for us | Walks and Tours

On Cranleigh Street George Padmore lived and led anti colonial struggles. He was part of a network that stretched across…

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11 June 2022

Architectural Workers Take Action!

UVW-SAW | Talks and Debates

Members of United Voices of the World - Section of Architectural Workers (UVW-SAW) open our house for a weekend of…

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28 June 2022

A Space for Us? Somers Town

Somers Town Museum - A Space for us | Talks and Debates

A Space for us? Space is unequal - wealthier areas have more green space and are more likely to be…

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12 June 2022

Dear London

Genéa Saunders | Walks and Tours

Dear London is a promenade performance set within Corbett Estate in south-east London. Visitors follow estate developer Archibald Corbett to…

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08 June - 17 June

Design, Interrupted

Maggie McGrath | Exhibitions

‘Design, Interrupted’ at Kings Cross examines a fundamental shift in creative work from analogue to algorithmic architectural image search. This…

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Press Highlights

21 May - 04 September

Symbiosis: Living Island

Japan House London | Exhibitions

Explore how an extraordinary living art project has transformed the landscape of the island of Inujima and enriched the lives…

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16 June 2022

Act Now: Biodiversity in London

HTA Design LLP | Talks and Debates

As the Borough of Camden is a key destination for this years’ festival, HTA and the London Wildlife Trust will…

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Press Highlights

25 June 2022

ACTIVE Tour of ‘listed’ Macintosh Court

Susan Okokon, EXCAVATING DIVERSITY, Sponsored by MAIL BOXES ETC Streatham, and CRESSINGHAM GARDENS, Resident Management Community Interest Company. | Walks and Tours

AN ARCHITECTURAL TOUR of Macintosh Court Sheltered Housing Scheme, formerly named Leigham Court, Lambeth's first ‘Listed’, purpose built modernist sheltered…

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Press Highlights

03 June - 24 June

ACT! Unseen films

Somers Town Museum - A Space for us | Film Screenings

Join us for a series of curated film nights, every Friday in the month of June and watch unseen footage…

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26 June 2022

Ossulston echoes of Karl Marx Hof

Somers Town Museum - A Space for us | Walks and Tours

A guided tour showing the comprehensive vision architects had for the Grade 2 Listed Modernist Social housing Ossulston Estate, with…

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Press Highlights

10 June 2022

Tourism and/in the Metropolis: A global act

University of Westminster | Talks and Debates

What forms does tourism take in today’s metropolises and metropolitan regions as places of ‘thickness’ in terms of the social…

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Press Highlights

11 June 2022

Acts of Extraction Walking Tour

MOULD | Walks and Tours

How is architecture fundamentally linked to acts of extraction? What forms of extraction can we observe in the built environment…

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Press Highlights

21 June 2022

London to Liverpool: behind the design of the Royal College of Physicians’ buildings

Royal College of Physicians Museum | Talks and Debates

For over 500 years the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) has had impressive homes in London, our current the Grade…

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Press Highlights

15 June - 20 June

‘With wide-eyed wonder’

UAL: Central Saint Martins, MA Industrial Design | Installations

'With wide-eyed wonder' presents six interactive installations developed in collaboration between the Camden community, Central Saint Martins MA Industrial Design…

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22 June 2022

School of Activism Forum

Creative Wick | Talks and Debates

A day of presentations, workshops, talks and debate about youth centred neighbourhood activism to support and enlighten young people's involvement…

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30 June - 10 July

draw, play, act

Anna Gibb | Exhibitions

An interactive exhibition packed with drawings by architect and artist Anna Gibb. Can buildings change the world? Do they have…

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01 June - 30 June

Time Tunnel-the history and future of Seven Dials

Shaftesbury | Exhibitions

Walk through the ‘Time Tunnel’, an alfresco exhibition on the past, present, and future of Seven Dials, a one-of-a-kind destination…

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15 June 2022

Engineering nature – the London Bridge Green Streets pilot

Team London Bridge | Walks and Tours

Southwark Council and Team London Bridge are working together to bring more greenery, better flood management and safer streets to…

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19 June 2022

Melting city walking tour

Paul Lincoln | Walks and Tours

MELTING CITY - debating how the City of London and businesses in the Square Mile are acting on retrofit* and…

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30 June 2022

Exclusive LFA Exhibition Viewing: Space Popular at Sir John Soane’s Museum

Sir John Soane's Museum | Exhibitions

Enjoy an exclusive out-of-hours viewing of Space Popular: The Portal Galleries, which presents new work and research by the multidisciplinary…

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