(R)Evolution! | Architecture Fringe Festival 2023
(R)Evolution! | Architecture Fringe Festival 2023
Architecture Fringe
02-18 June 2023
Across Scotland and further afield
co-produced with Liane Bauer, Kam Chan, Dom Hogston, Mary Holmes, Marko Jobst, Thierry Lye, Scott McAulay, Neil McGuire, Evie Spiridon
The sixth edition of the Architecture Fringe took place in June 2023 and was structured under the thematic provocation of (R)Evolution! The Architecture Fringe 2019 saw 51 projects, events, exhibitions, performances, talks, and tours taking place across Scotland as well as further afield including Stoke-on-Trent, London, Brussels, Copenhagen and Eugene, Oregon.
Everything that we have created began in our imagination, and the world in which we find ourselves is entirely of our own making. The systems and structures that we have built to bring order to our lives are not inevitable nor unchangeable. They exist through choice. The choice we now must make is one of (R)Evolution! - to choose to do things differently.
To explore (R)Evolution! we developed a commissioned core programme which sought to bring people together in radical conviviality, sharing insight and perspectives as well as modes of practice and means of resistance. This included Glitching Binaries: New Oaths for Architecture’s Anomalies - an exhibition and participatory workshop which invited us to glitch into the (in)possible to question what our future(s) could look like beyond the binary; Radical Spaces and Autonomous Actions - a community meal, discussion and exhibition which explored the dynamic ecology of people and spaces which have played an important role in Glasgow's radical social and spatial history; and Assembly: Cultures of Architecture - a half-day world cafe style symposium to collectively share memories of and aspirations for architectural culture here in Scotland.
The open programme continued to be a platform for exciting work from established and new voices. Who Owns The Clyde? opened up a critical and ongoing conversation about use and stewardships of Glasgow’s famous river; Unseen At Night explored queer and feminine (femme) spaces and the radical ways in which they can manifest; and (re)GROWN: Sowing a Bio-based Material Culture - an exhibition and talks series provoking the construction industry to develop holistic strategies for sustainable intervention to rapidly adopt a de-carbonised, bio-based and circular material culture.
This year’s festival was made possible via support from the Scottish Government, Moxon Architects, Helen Lucas Architects and Collective Architecture.
Image: AF2023 production team
Image: AF2023 Opening Party! at Civic House. Credit TiuMakkonen
(R)Evolution! Radical Spaces and Autonomous Actions
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