This year’s hybrid edition of the festival focuses on ‘(un)learning’ architecture through a range of talks, exhibitions and activities
Scotland’s independent architecture festival the Architecture Fringe has now opened, with events taking place both in person across Scotland, and online. With this year’s theme of ‘(Un)Learning’, the festival invites people to explore, interrogate and rethink the world of architecture and what it could be.
The free festival, running 4 to 20 June 2021, takes the form of an Open Programme of activities, talks, research, performances and exhibitions with a curated Core Programme of projects and events. There is also an online graduate showcase for all graduating students from Scotland’s architecture schools.
A group of protesters, dressed in white boiler suits and gas masks, turned up at in a west Cumbrian town to protest against a planned coal mine in the area. The Cumbrian Extinction Rebellion group staged their protest outside the site of the proposed min in Whitehaven on Tuesday. At the same time Extinction Rebellion London activists dropped stink bombs and let off green flares in the offices of Lloyds of London, the company expected to insure the Cumbrian mine. One of the Cumbrian protesters, Gwen Harrison, said the government now needs to try and persuade the rest of the world to take drastic action, while at the same time considering a new coal mine that experts say is completely incompatible with tackling the climate crisis.
(3 June 2021) LUXEMBOURG-CITY, LUXEMBOURG and BONN, GERMANY – The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the Global Landscapes Forum (GLF) are launching the Luxembourg-GLF Finance for Nature Platform – a partnership to expand the emerging market for global .