Autumn Assembly 2025

Architecture Fringe invites you to the Autumn Assembly!

Thursday 27th November 2025 / 6:30pm
Civic House, Glasgow

Featuring:

🌿 Summer School 2026 Launch!
📣 Amazing Talks (Pecha Kucha Style)
🎉 Drinks, Food, Social

Taking place at Civic House, Glasgow, we invite you to come along to our launch event for our first ever International Summer School (taking place July 2026) to find out more about this exciting new initiative, as well as hear our invited speakers for a series of Pecha Kucha style presentations, sharing beautiful, transformative and foundational learning experiences, across architecture, art, activism and beyond.

Book tickets here

With talks from:

Becky Little
Lily Whitehouse
V&A Dundee Young Peoples Collective
Simhika Rao
Rob Colvin
M. Holmes

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Becky Little

Becky Little is an artist, builder, and educator with thirty years of experience working with natural materials and vernacular construction. Based in Fife, she brings together building, art, archaeology, material research, and community collaboration as one interconnected practice. Her work centres on embodied making and on noticing how land, water, soil, and other beings shape the ways we build. Through sculpture, site-based work, and shared making, she explores impermanence and the cultural practices of care.

Across projects ranging from earth repair in heritage settings to experimental installations and research-driven enquiry, she investigates reciprocal relationships between people and place, challenging extractive habits in construction. Current explorations include a Parliament of Earth, developing forms of representation and assembly for soils and other beings, and Earthbound Orkney, a material and place-based collaboration on the islands. Becky’s practice invites forms of listening that expand who is involved in shaping our shared future.

Rob Colvin

Rob is a researcher, educator and architect based in Glasgow. Recent architectural experience includes design of the major redevelopment and retrofit of the Ulster Folk Museum in Belfast and the refurbished Scottish Galleries at the National in Edinburgh. Rob has delivered numerous national and international education and third-sector community projects that have sought to address the climate crisis through environmental literacy, community agency, and built-environment skills development. He currently holds position as studio tutor at the Mackintosh School of Architecture and is concurrently completing both the Sustainability and Adaptation MSc at the Centre for Alternative Technology in Wales, and AECB CarbonLite Retrofit Coordinator Course.

Lily Whitehouse

Lily is currently completing her Master’s at the Mackintosh School of Architecture. Like many of her peers, her route through architectural education, research and practice has been unique. Shaped by a pandemic, recession and a move to more and more digital reliance, she has been committed to community led projects and hand making. Her experience spans community engagement, co-design and self-build. Often working collaboratively with young people and the public to reimagine the built environment. Her personal practice is grounded in being curious and trusting the process, learning through doing and through making collaboratively.

Lily is a trustee of OpenPlan and founder of In the Making, an award winning research collective exploring co-design. She has previously been part of the Architecture Fringe’s open programme and received multiple research grants, including this year’s Residency for Ideas, the Noel Hill Award in 2021 and a RIBA Medal nomination in 2022.

V&A Dundee’s Young People’s Collective

The V&A Dundee’s Young People’s Collective or YPC is a programme and network where young people based in Dundee come together to co-design a year-round calendar of workshops, socials, meetings and trips.

The YPC meets weekly to build connections, collaborate, make things happen and create opportunities for other emerging creatives in Dundee. Earlier this month, the YPC programmed and produced UPSTART, a festival of workshops, talks and new public commissions designed to share tactics, demystify creative careers, and imagine alternative models for the future of the creative sector.

Simhika Rao

Simhika Rao is an Architect, Tutor and Co-Founder & Director of MAC+RAO, a design & build practice exploring low-carbon design in rural domestic projects using modern methods of construction. Her practice spans architecture, construction and research, with a particular focus on digital fabrication, embodied carbon and supporting self-builders to make confident, sustainable decisions.

Simhika tutors 5th Year Masters students at The University of Strathclyde, where she co-leads a research unit on low-carbon design for a live project, creating links between practice and education. She also serves on the Board of ASF-International, leading the Training & Research Working Group and contributing to global frameworks for community led projects, social justice and equitable practice. With experience across rural housing, education, community processes and international development, Simhika brings a commitment to spatial justice and the belief that architecture can act as a transformative, public-facing cultural force.

M. Holmes

M. Holmes (b.2001) is an interdisciplinary maker and researcher based in New Haven, CT. She is the 2024 recipient of the Edward P. Bass Scholarship of Architecture at Yale University. With a background in design, construction and non-profit fundraising, her work is focused on finding pathways for architectural and construction professionals to exchange the vital knowledge and skills necessary to facilitate a just transition within the built environment.