About the Team
Architecture Fringe is run by a production team of dedicated staff and volunteers. Our current production team are;
Kam Chan
Co-Producer
Kam Chan is the Engagement Producer at the Edinburgh Futures Institute, part of the University of Edinburgh, that expands the capacity for co-creation and interdisciplinary collaboration. She manages and faciltates workshops, events, and bespoke tailored projects to support complex stakeholders inside and outside of the institute. She is responsible for the day-to-day operations, providing solutions-focused activity and working closely with colleagues and teams across EFI and with external partners. She advocates for accessibility and the coming together of diverse perspectives in the activities she supports. Kam is also an artist and creative producer. She coordinates and curates exhibitions and events with Visual Arts Scotland and the Architecture Fringe. Her career has included the creative industries, the finance sector, policy, and administration. She has a Master of Fine Arts and degree in Art & Philosophy.
Dominique Hogston (she/her)
Co-producer
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Dominique Hogston is an Architect based in Edinburgh. In practice, her work focuses around sustainability and community. Her interests lie in adaptive reuse of existing buildings and the promotion of traditional craftsmanship. She completed her studies at the Mackintosh School of Architecture in Glasgow. During her time there, she was part of the MacMag editorial team, where she gained experience and developed a keen in interest in architectural publishing. Since then, she has been documenting historic buildings of interest through photography whilst also working on her own magazine, Hue Mag. Focusing on black and white photography, the magazine also enables a platform for under-represented artists to showcase their work. During her time at MacMag, she was part of the 2017 Architecture Fringe event ‘Architectural Publishing in Scotland’ and eventually became a Co-Producer in 2022.
Mary Holmes (she/her)
Co-Producer
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M. Holmes is an interdisciplinary designer and researcher whose work centres and celebrates transgressive spaces, architectures that go beyond the boundaries of the discipline. She is currently based in New Haven, CT. where, as a Bass Scholar of Architecture at Yale University, she is working on new research into the economic, ecological and spatial politics of the U.S. lesbian separatist movements. She is a graduate of the University of Cambridge, where she co-founded Queer Aided Design, a platform whose work supports queer architecture students and space makers. She has taught workshops with the European Architecture Students Assembly (EASA), the University of Cambridge, Central Saint Martins, the Architectural Association and on Open City’s Accelerate Program. Her voice and collaborations have been published by the RIBA Journal, Dezeen, the 20th Century Society, and the AJ; her work has been formally recognized by the RIBA, who awarded her the 2022 Bronze Presidents Medal.
Scott McAulay (he/they)
Co-producer
Grounded in grassroots climate justice activism, Scott’s practice through the Anthropocene Architecture School fuses architectural, community, and political education with Climate Literacy, Spatial Justice, and the Radical Imagination. Through temporary spatial actions, this work prefiguratively challenges academic and industry-wide inertia in the face of cascading climate breakdown. Having launched the AAS as part of its Open Programme in 2019, Scott joined the Architecture Fringe team as a Co-Producer in 2021 and co-developed 2023’s (R)Evolution! provocation whilst stewarding Radical Spaces and Autonomous Actions on the Core Programme. Scott is Architype’s Regenerative Design and Infrastructures Specialist building on the studio's 40-year legacy of radical sustainability, a founding member of ACAN Scotland, and a member of Living Rent – Scotland’s tenants union. They have taught widely across Scotland, the British Isles, mainland Europe and Turtle Island, were a co-creator Retrofit Reimagined 2023 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?...) and contributed to the recently published anthology Pedagogies of Reuse: The International School of Re-Construction.
Neil McGuire (he/him)
Co-producer and Co-director
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Neil is a designer and educator, working with clients and collaborators in the arts and public sectors on a range of activities, from publications and print, to exhibitions and websites, to art and educational projects. Key to all of these activities is a direct engagement with creativity, culture, and a community of makers, educators and practitioners. Neil is currently a studio tutor in 5th Year Architecture at the University of Strathclyde, and prior to that worked as a lecturer in Communication Design for 9 years at The Glasgow School of Art. Outside of mainstream education he has a keen interest and involvement in alternative and ad-hoc education, having founded Test Unit with Agile City, (an Art Design and Architecture summer school, prototyping ideas in public space). In 2023 Neil was a co-curator (alongside colleagues at The Architecture Fringe, -ism magazine and /other) of A Fragile Correspondence, the Scotland+Venice project for the 18th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia.
Evie Spiridon (she/her)
Co-Producer
Evie Spiridon is a Part 2 Architectural Assistant based in Glasgow. She graduated from the Mackintosh School of Art with a MArch in 2021 and has since been working in practice on residential projects and in particular restorations of buildings around Scotland. She has experience working with natural materials and is attracted to projects that incorporate existing materials and information into the design process, to rethink how we engage with our existing structures. She joined the Architecture Fringe Team through the New Producers Programme in 2021, in order to explore further how architecture manifests in situations beyond practice.
Andy Summers (he/him)
Co-Founder and Co-Director
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Andy Summers (b. Edinburgh, Scotland) is a Glasgow-based architect, educator, curator, and public programmer specialising in architecture and the built environment. He is interested in developing and contributing to a pluralised, progressive culture of architecture which seeks to support a just common good. His work questions and explores the conditions within which architectural cultures emerge, often challenging existing structures and cultural norms. Andy represented Scotland at the 18th International Architecture Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia 2023 as co-curator of the exhibition 'A Fragile Correspondence' with colleagues from the Architecture Fringe, -ism, and /other. Andy is a co-founder and co-director of the Architecture Fringe and is currently a design tutor at the Edinburgh School of Architecture & Landscape Architecture (ESALA) at the University of Edinburgh, and co-pilot for Stage 4 Architecture at the Mackintosh School of Architecture at the Glasgow School of Art.
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With big thanks to previous co-producers; Akiko Kobayashi, Chris Dobson, Crystal Bennes, Dhamintha Wickremasinge, Eilidh Izat, Grace Mark, Leah Lockhart, Lee Ivett, Louisa Butler, Lauren Coleman, Marion Preez, Matthaios Lymperpoulos, Nachinji Mumba, Olivia Turner, René Sommer Linday, Raina Armstrong, Ross Aitchinson, Dr Stacey Hunter, Sam Comrie, Shona Common, Ruta Turcinaviciute, Thierry Lye, Marko Jobst, Liane Bauer