London Festival of Architecture 2024

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The London Festival of Architecture has revealed its programme of its upcoming edition events taking place across Greater London in June to mark its 20th anniversary. Over the past two decades the Festival has had a major impact on the shape of the city, influencing major public projects, key policies and reimagining the way citizens engage with London. The Festival’s mission is to open up discussion round architecture, test new ideas, and uncover and promote new talent.

From providing platforms from which careers are launched to opening up meaningful conversations and proposals from those that live and work as part of the communities that inhabit
our built spaces, the London Festival of Architecture has embraced and celebrated change for 20 years.

Under the theme of ‘Reimagine’, this year’s programme will build on the mission to create space for knowledge-sharing and exploration, delivering a rich cultural programme across London’s neighbourhoods. The programme will come alive with talks, workshops, performances, tours, plus installations and interventions and special events that reflect and reimagine what the future city, its communities and the industry would look like.
Encouraging everyone to be active citizens in shaping the future of our city, 2024 will also see the return of Studio Lates, offering the opportunity to see behind the scenes in London’s leading architecture and design practices in Cambridge Heath and Hackney, Clerkenwell, Shoreditch, Fitzrovia and Bloomsbury, Southbank and London Bridge.

In addition to expanding who engages with conversations around city-making, LFA provides a test bed for new ideas and creative solutions for problems across the city, with temporary reimagining of public space during the festival leading to long term positive change for communities and spaces across London.
LFA2024 events will be taking place across Greater London with particular attention to selected areas, which form the LFA Destinations and Neighbourhoods. Featuring some of London’s most architecturally significant and diverse areas, the 2024 Destinations are: Barnet; Bromley; Fitzrovia; West End and City of London and the 2024 Neighbourhoods are: Ealing Road & Alperton; Sutton Town Centre and Wood Green and Alexandra Palace. Each LFA Destination and Neighbourhood offers the public the opportunity to appreciate the architectural quality and culture of the area, as well as attend a wealth of events and activities.

Highlights include:
Dalston Pavilion | The London School of Architecture | Exhibition
Bland Designs – help us imagine a new look for artsdepot | artsdepot | Workshop
Co-existing Identities | Brent Council | Talks and Debates
Manifestos: Architecture for a new generation | the Design Museum | Talk
Sound Waves and Stories: DJMC Library Showcase | The London DJ & MC Academy CIC | North Finchley Library | Workshop
Evolution in Motion: Sutton Community Dance Performances | London Borough of Sutton | Sutton High Street | Performance
Reimgaine career pathways into the Built Environment | Ryder Architecture | Middlesex House | Talk