/ Autumn 2026 Programme

forthcoming symposia and working salons

*”We do not have a Plan B” - we are planning for “catastrophic success” – so spoke Jared Kushner, US Special Envoy (and son-in-law of US President Donald Trump) at the launch of the so-called Gaza ‘Board of Peace’ on 22 January 2026, revealing a hastily conceived, AI-generated, free-market and developer-led ‘masterplan’ for the ‘rebuilding of Gaza’.

As a counterpoint, these two forthcoming events from Contested Space and Architecture Fringe ask what critical role architecture and design can play in first bearing witness to injustice, documenting evidence and resisting erasure, and secondly advocating for a progressive and just approach to repair and reconstruction, centring self-determination and the people most directly affected by acts of international and settler-colonial violence.

We Have No Plan B* Architectures of Erasure, Aftermath and Repair
Part 1
Architectures of Evidence

How does conflict, colonisation and occupation transport places from the domain of urbanity into the domain of violence? Across this session we examine the relationship between architecture and destruction. With contributions from Forensic Architecture , Rectangle and Contested Space we will create a forum for discussion, reflection, the sharing of learning and knowledge, and a space for considering future action.

Part 2
Geographies of Aftermath

Civic House, Glasgow, on 12 November 2026, 6pm

January 2027 (date and time TBC)

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How can architecture contribute to building resilient and just futures? Across this session we ask what architecture owes to those living under, fleeing from, resisting, and rebuilding after violence.

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