Communal Infrastructures

Communal Infrastructures
Exhibition 17—26.04.26
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Opening: 17th April 2026, 18:00, book here
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Public Event 18.04.26
Custom Lane, Leith, EH6 6AL

Presenting work by;
Arc Architects and Rebearth
Bothand Group
Resolve Collective

What are the reciprocal relations required to sustain living communities? Who (and what) has a voice in those communities and how can we fully realise that potential? How might an expanded understanding of what constitutes community and infrastructure help us design, create and support thriving places?

Through the work of four practices, all working at the exploratory edge of architectural research and design, we investigate ideas of community, infrastructure and reciprocal exchange; reimagining transactional forms of practice that support sustainable development and progressive shifts in values, ethics, and working conditions. These ideas are explored through the lens of more-than-human life, communities which span geographies, and the close observation of water infrastructures in a city such as Edinburgh.

In this exhibition, 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 explores if we could hear the voices of Place, what could we learn and how might it change our approach to design and Bothand Group present Occupying Landscape Infrastructure (OLI), which tests a strategy to mitigate the effects of the climate crisis in Edinburgh’s public spaces through prioritising and reimagining landscape as infrastructure.

This project 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.