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.

Thames Road Summer Street Party
SAT 13 JUNE
Everyone

Thames Road Summer Street Party

Exhibition Launch Performance Talk Tour Workshop BE FIRST THAMES ROAD

Family Friendly Street party to transform Thames Road this summer — and everyone’s invited

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It Belongs to Us (Water Lane, Stratford)
SAT 20 JUNE
Families Local residents Young people aged 0-10 Young people aged 10-16 People over 55

It Belongs to Us (Water Lane, Stratford)

Workshop Art in the Docks / University of East London Partnership

A creative, workshop inviting residents and visitors to reimagine the streets and public spaces where they live.

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It Belongs to Us (Docklands)
SAT 20 JUNE
College and university students Families Local residents Young people aged 0-10 Young people aged 10-16 People over 55

It Belongs to Us (Docklands)

Workshop Art in the Docks / University of East London Partnership

A creative, workshop inviting residents and visitors to reimagine the streets and public spaces where they live.

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Supported Cities: Moving to Belong
SAT 6 JUNE
Everyone

Supported Cities: Moving to Belong

Workshop Supported Cities

A facilitated run and walk around the same neighbourhood, exploring how movement situates us in our surroundings.

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Rooted in Kensington: Botanical Market
6 - 27 JUNE
Everyone

Rooted in Kensington: Botanical Market

Exhibition Opportunity Kensington

A botanical market, launching the Rooted in Kensington project on Phillimore Walk and exhibition to consider its future transformation

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A Place to Belong: London’s Bus Shelters

Mentor Pick

1 - 30 June
Everyone

A Place to Belong: London’s Bus Shelters

Exhibition Transport for London

Step into TfL’s new bus shelter designs for safer, more pleasant and accessible journeys

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Wanna Play? Make and Play with Unit38
SAT 13 JUNE
Families Local residents Young people aged 0-10 Young people aged 10-16 People over 55

Wanna Play? Make and Play with Unit38

Workshop Alexandra Park and Palace Charitable Trust

An energising engagement activity to help shape the future of play at Alexandra Park

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Skate and Create: Design and Build a Skatepark
SAT 13 JUNE
Families Local residents Young people aged 10-16

Skate and Create: Design and Build a Skatepark

Workshop Alexandra Park and Palace Charitable Trust

Join the RIBA Learning youth Forum to share ideas and re-design the Ally Pally skate park.

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Building Together: Heritage crafts in action
MON 22 JUNE
Everyone

Building Together: Heritage crafts in action

Workshop London Borough of Haringey with Alexandra Palace

An opportunity to see traditional heritage crafts in action and have a go yourself

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IN-A-LONDON

Mentor Pick

Curator Pick

SAT 6 JUNE
Everyone

IN-A-LONDON

Installation Performance Talk Supported Cities

IN-A-LONDON is an immersive experience that brings to life stories of belonging across London through Music, Art, Storytelling & More.

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This Place We Share
17 - 19 JUNE
Families Local residents Young people aged 0-10 Young people aged 10-16 People over 55

This Place We Share

Workshop Levitt Bernstein

Exploring belonging through residents’ life stories at Wingspan Walk and Down Lane Park, shaped by Tottenham Hale’s community voices.

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Urban Design Lab: Greenwich Station to Deptford Creek
THU 11 JUNE
Everyone

Urban Design Lab: Greenwich Station to Deptford Creek

Workshop BPTW

Participatory Urban Design Lab exploring belonging between Greenwich Station and Deptford Creek, with talk, workshop and open studio at BPTW.

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Perceptions of safety: a walk and discussion
THU 11 JUNE
Built environment professionals College and university students Local residents People over 55

Perceptions of safety: a walk and discussion

Tour Ballymore

Explore how design, movement and environment shape perceptions of safety in and around Canning Town.

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Limmo Peninsula: a new neighbourhood for Canning Town
SAT 27 JUNE
Everyone

Limmo Peninsula: a new neighbourhood for Canning Town

Exhibition Ballymore

An exhibition of emerging plans - and an opportunity to have your say

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From Empty Site to New Neighbourhood
SAT 6 JUNE
Built environment professionals College and university students Local residents People over 55

From Empty Site to New Neighbourhood

Tour Ballymore

A walking tour of proposed and new neighbourhoods in Canning Town

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Strand: Measuring Wellbeing in a Radical Street
TUE 2 JUNE
Built environment professionals College and university students Local residents

Strand: Measuring Wellbeing in a Radical Street

Tranquil City

A participatory walk exploring how Strand’s redesign shapes how we feel, connect, and belong.

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Homes and Habitats: Cultivating Connection

Mentor Pick

SAT 27 JUNE
Everyone

Homes and Habitats: Cultivating Connection

Exhibition Architecture Foundation Young Trustees

An interactive exhibition launch platforming the work from three participatory workshops which explore how migration shapes our homes and habitats.

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Fitzrovia Futures 2055
6 - 28 JUNE
Local residents

Fitzrovia Futures 2055

Workshop Fitzrovia Community Centre

A workshop for Belonging: levelling the ground between built environment professionals and the Fitzrovia community in exploring its Futures.

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It Belongs to Us (Royal Docks)
WED 3 JUNE
Everyone

It Belongs to Us (Royal Docks)

Workshop Art in the Docks / University of East London Partnership

A creative, workshop inviting residents and visitors to reimagine the streets and public spaces where they live.

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Your London.
SAT 20 JUNE
Everyone

Your London.

Exhibition Chartered Institute of Architectural Technologists

Step into an interactive experience and explore your London with us

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Design Your Own Neighbourhood

Curator Pick

THU 11 JUNE
Built environment professionals College and university students People over 55

Design Your Own Neighbourhood

Workshop Makower Architects Ltd

A playful evening of mapping, collaging, reclaiming and reinventing our neighborhoods.

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Dogs, Density, and the Right to the City
TUE 23 JUNE
Everyone

Dogs, Density, and the Right to the City

Workshop University of Westminster

Talk and participatory workshop exploring how housing shapes everyday life, public space, and belonging for Londoners living with dogs.

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Supported Cities: Mapping Belonging in London.
FRI 12 JUNE
Everyone

Supported Cities: Mapping Belonging in London.

Workshop Supported Cities

A hands-on workshop exploring how personal memories, photographs and stories can be mapped across London to create a hand-crafted booklet.

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More LFA2026 Collections

Discover as a Family

Discover as a Family

You’re never too young to enjoy architecture – workshops tours and activities for families and young people

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Reconnect with libraries

Reconnect with libraries

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.

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Connect with nature

Connect with nature

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.

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Participate or make

Participate or make

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.

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Explore a new part of the city

Explore a new part of the city

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.

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Peak into

Peak into

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.

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Discover something new

Discover something new

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.

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Use your voice

Use your voice

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.

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Connect to others

Connect to others

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.

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