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Communal Synergies

Sat 18 Apr 2026 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM BST Custom Lane, Leith, Edinburgh, EH6 6AL
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Communal Synergies

Sat 18 Apr 2026 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM BST Custom Lane, Leith, Edinburgh, EH6 6AL
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Join the Architecture Fringe for a Communal Synergies Workshop on Saturday the 18th of April.

We will delve deeper into our Communal Infrastructures exhibition with Arc Architects and Rebearth, BothAnd Group and Resolve Collective.

About Communal Infrastructures

Building on work produced for Architecture Fringe 2025, the Communal Infrastructures exhibition presents new work investigating ideas of community, infrastructure and reciprocal exchange. It presents a range of inventive and emergent architectural and research approaches to the question of what (and to whom) we should be listening and paying attention to, as our cities face a range of diverse future challenges.

This workshop and panel discussion will explore further the themes and concerns of three showcased projects:

  • Resolve Collective, working in collaboration with the 20th AlFonj Scout Group, asks how the local and diasporic knowledge of young people might support exciting and alternative ways of preserving architectural and cultural heritage across global communities?

  • Arc Architects and Rebearth collaboratively ask if we could hear the voices of Place and more-than-human life, what could we learn and how might that change our approach to and what we design?

  • BothAnd Group present Occupying Landscape Infrastructure (OLI), prototyping an approach and strategy to mitigate the effects of the climate crisis in Edinburgh’s public spaces by prioritising and reimagining landscape as infrastructure.


Updated Event schedule;


After an opening panel discussion, two workshops overlaying our contributors’ processes onto the docklands of Leith will be led simultaneously before we come back together to share our experiences through an emotional mapping exercise facilitated by Resolve Collective.

Please do note: weather permitting, part of the workshops will take place outdoors so do dress for the weather forecast and notify us of any accessibility accommodations that could enable fuller participation in the day’s activities.

12.45 - 13.00: Participant Arrivals Coffee / refreshments
13.00 - 13.10: Welcome
13.10 - 14.10: 10-minute Introduction to each project and then a collective panel discussion
(We are intending to record and transcribe this so that a reflective document can be made from it to archive the event and capture learnings. Participant contributions will be anonymous)
14.10 - 15.15: Breaking out into workshop sessions with Arc Architects and Rebearth, and BothAnd Group

  • Arc Architects and Rebearth will be taking participants through their developed method to bring in insights from more-than-human lives a short walk from Custom Lane
  • BothAnd Group will lead a collaborative walk around Leith’s dockland outside overlaying their processes applied and gathering imagery through sketching or photography

15.15 - 16.00: Reconvene with Resolve Collective leading the facilitation of their emotional mapping process.










This event is free to take part in, with the option to make a donation to support our future work. It is open to all!

Associated events:

The exhibition preview event takes place on the Friday 17th April 6-8pm, information and tickets can be found here.

Access:

This event takes place in the ground floor gallery space. There is an accessible toilet, and assistance can be provided by staff. Please don't hesitate to get in touch if you have any access requirements you would like to discuss - hello@architecturefringe.com

This exhibition and event has been made possible through the support of Creative Scotland Multi-Year Funding, Moxon Architects, Helen Lucas Architects, and Collective Architecture.

Location

Custom Lane, Leith, Edinburgh, EH6 6AL