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LFA2026 Collections
You’re never too young to enjoy architecture – workshops tours and activities for families and young people
Experience familiar spaces anew and reflect on belonging in the city in this exhibition exploring London below and above ground
Come along to Guildhall Art Gallery to build play forts inspired by City structures and London landmarks
Family Friendly Street party to transform Thames Road this summer — and everyone’s invited
A creative, workshop inviting residents and visitors to reimagine the streets and public spaces where they live.
Join a BSL-led group tour with Edward Richards to explore the museum building and Simone Brewster’s PLATFORM display.
An engaging and lively discussion on traditional heritage crafts, examining why a career in the trades can be so rewarding
Cardboard construction for all ages! Make machines, buildings and boats using cardboard cutting machines and child friendly industrial style fixingS
A walking tour exploring the City of London's rich migration histories lasting approximately 1.5 hours.
How can we carve out permanent space for culture & community to belong in our cities?
A 4 mile guided walk linking green spaces in Colindale and Edgware.
You’re never too young to enjoy architecture, a rhyme and story session with a fun architectural theme.
You’re never too young to enjoy architecture, a rhyme and story sessions with a fun architectural theme.
A LFA themed Lego Club special. Be inspired and build something that shows how you belong in your community.
A packed day of music, food, live graffiti art, breakdancing lessons, engagement activities and SkateJam.
An energising engagement activity to help shape the future of play at Alexandra Park
Join RIBA Learning in the splendid surroundings of Alexandra Palace for an afternoon of building in paper.
Join the RIBA Learning youth Forum to share ideas and re-design the Ally Pally skate park.
Imagine and build ideas for skateable, multi purpose features that can live naturally in public spaces
Tours of the medieval church of St Olave Hart Street, whose post-war restoration began 75 years ago this month.
Exploring belonging through residents’ life stories at Wingspan Walk and Down Lane Park, shaped by Tottenham Hale’s community voices.
Curator Pick
Join Sam Elbahja for the 2026 Young Voices Keynote, titled Lost in Translation: Who Architecture Leaves Behind!
Participatory Urban Design Lab exploring belonging between Greenwich Station and Deptford Creek, with talk, workshop and open studio at BPTW.
Installation of world percussion from around the world. With live, immersive experience performances.
Celebrating St Mary's Church, Somers Town during our 200th year.
A public talk exploring how acts of community resistance can reclaim space and foster belonging.
Showcase of student work from the Department of Architecture and Built Environment at Ravensbourne University London
A live (In-person) Cross-disciplined (Sectors) ‘Panel Talk + Q&A’ of emerging and established Professionals from the UK Built Environment (Scene).
Big ideas and a Big Lunch for Colindale: Creative Workshops/Family-Friendly Fun exploring ownership and belonging in Barnet's built environment
The Travelling Drawing Club
Hear from local photographer, Anna Lerner, and People’s Museum Somers Town founder and join the discussion
A solo exhibition of glass works and installations exploring narratives of community, architecture, and belonging.
Creative and Active Walking Trail for Young People in the City of London
Mentor Pick
A temporary pavilion where discarded objects and belongings invite to conversations, workshops, collaborative research around value, waste and urban life.
A temporary pavilion for encounters, discussion and collaborative research: how do things we keep, use and let got, shape our…
A series of workshops walking and writing around pocket parks in the City of London.
Open house followed by an architect-led tour of the ArtPlay Pavilion at Dulwich Picture Gallery
An exhibition exploring the theme of 'belonging' in a design led, holistic style. Welcoming up our studio to encourage connection.
Fun free drop in workshop - making, exploring and playing with architecture for early years (and their familes)
Meet the Community Steering Group, hear why community-led homes matter, enjoy family creative activities, and support next project phases.
Students and staff co-design a straw-bale pavilion exploring belonging through sustainable materials, collective making, and low-impact construction.
A hands-on workshop exploring bio-based materials as carbon-sequestering construction systems, connecting material innovation with climate and community.
A series of events celebrating how different communities have shaped Crystal Palace Subway’s story over the years. .
A showcase of work and events by the Spatial Practices graduating students from Central Saint Martins (UAL)
What happens when you combine lego, architects and good homes?
Children draw moments of belonging, transform drawings into colourful strips, and collaboratively build a pavilion celebrating shared stories, creativity, community.
Messy Fun For Little Ones - drop in for under 5s
Join the URBAN LEARNERS Stone Detective team to explore The City's historical layers written in stone!
Join URBAN LEARNERS hands-on artisan crafts at the ‘If Stone Could Speak Pavilion’.
Exhibition of graduating student work from Architecture and Design
The pavilion demonstrates a feasible, open‑source prototype by an Architectural Technology student, designed for simple assembly by just two people.
A guided tour of the Jubilee Line Extension exploring its architecture, heritage, and how underground spaces foster connection and belonging.
A SAVE event in collaboration with the London Festival of Architecture.
Guided walking tour of Angel, uncovering hidden histories and overlooked spaces, showing how thoughtful design strengthens community and city life.
Multidisciplinary portfolio review workshop experience for students, architects, and creatives
Libraries are key to the social infrastructure of our city, key intergenerational spaces of belonging in our city. This collections invite the Festival community to re-engage with these crucial hubs and rethink their role during June and beyond.
From tours discovering hidden green spaces in the city to workshops unpacking land justice, ecologies and non-human belonging, these activities unpack how nature fits into and makes us rethink our built environment and emphasises the importance of access to nature for all.
From workshops providing new skills or chance to experience an area through new eyes to mentoring sessions and screenings empowering the next generation of inclusive creatives, these activities provide a chance to participate with those in the room and leave with something to bring home – whether ideas or inventions.
The Festival is great moment to explore the people, places and projects shaping our city – whether exploring an area for the first time, or rediscovering a familiar space with a new invitation.
A chance to peak into some of the iconic and every buildings from across the city, that are often closed to the public but are opening their doors and breaking thresholds to provide entry for all during June.
From talks unpacking crucial skills needed for the future or transformations happening across our city to workshops unpacking how to create more inclusive and sustainable places and sector, these activities provide an opportunity to learn something new to take away long after June has come to a close.
From tours and workshops to exhibitions, these activities provide an opportunity to explore familiar or new areas, use your voice and be part of shaping the future of a neighbourhood or project.
The Festival is a wonderful moment to connect with others in the Festival community – whether those within your neighbourhood, within the city or in the growing Built Environment sector – whether studying, working or simply interested in knowing more and being involved.
