‘A Seat at the Table’ Summer Show 2025

The London School of Architecture has long-established itself as a springboard from which students are able to use the realities and challenges of practice – both within and beyond the architectural profession – to reimagine possible futures beyond current experience.

This exhibition establishes four thematic agendas which confront particularly pertinent issues; in reclaiming value in the overlooked, challenging agency in practice, reconceiving preconceptions of flows and stasis in architecture, and developing intersectional blueprints for spatial design. In doing so, these new paradigms collectively demonstrate how we might reconceive a more equitable London of the near future, and provide clear advocation for what needs to change, and how, for us to get there.

Appropriations, Adaptations, Reuse Exploring how the existing city and its social frameworks can be reshaped through architectural reuse, these projects engage with adaptive strategies that respond to the specificities of site, history, and community. Reclaiming value in the overlooked, from retrofitted housing estates to adopted infrastructures, these interventions challenge linear models of development and demolition to offer spatial proposals rooted in continuity and care.

Beyond Building Any lively critical culture engages with ideas from outside its comfort zone. These projects centre process over product, exploring architectural thinking as care, protest, pedagogy, and collective memory. Working with narrative, performance, and activism to propose spatial strategies rooted in repair and resistance. From interventions to systemic critiques, these works position architecture not as object-making, but as an evolving practice that listens and intervenes.

Flows, Reflows Attuning to changing social, ecological, and material flows repositions architecture as a flux where landscapes, infrastructures, and communities intersect. Engaging critically with flows such as waste, water, labour, and migration facilitates designs that operate across scales and challenge extractive logics. The work presented here reframes architecture not as a fixed product but as an evolving process that is materially, socially, and ecologically entangled.

New Typologies Architecture and life change at different speeds, and new spatial approaches can respond to contemporary needs like expanded notions of home, collective housing, inclusive education, intergenerational care, and more equitable access to urban spaces. By interrogating conventional building types and developing new typologies through narrative, prototyping, and policy critique, these projects open up possibilities for how architecture can support emerging and desirable ways of living.

DATE: 3 – 8 July 2025

OPENING HOURS:

3 July 11am – 5pm

4 – 8 July 11am – 8pm

WHERE: Bootstrap Charily, London, E8 3DL. To access the show, please use the entrance on Abbott Street.

No need to book, walk-ins welcome.

We hope to see as many people as possible there over the week! For any additional information, don’t hesitate to contact us at info@the-lsa.org.