The majority of systems and structures that we have built to bring order to our lives are destroying us and life on Earth. Architecture is uncritically complicit in its reliance on these systems and structures for its very creation, with little resistance or defiance in its making or deployment. We have arrived at the intersection of a climate emergency, global pandemic and racialized capitalist economy and the ground on which we stand is shifting at speed. Things are changing, and in order to make that change positive and transformative we need to engage in a process of unlearning and learning anew.

In a complex and interconnected world, with systems large and small, fast and slow, how can architecture as a process, a way of thinking, help us (un)learn in order to firstly navigate this complexity, then to reimagine and create a much better way of doing things?

The Architecture Fringe 2021 invites you to (un)learn, to interrogate your own behaviours, beliefs and biases in order to acknowledge how the world really is to then reimagine how it could be.