A huge thank you to all of you who were involved or attended the AoU Congress Fringe 3×3 Series, which concluded this week.

The three sessions took in speaker responses to the themes of Romance, Everyday, Play …and the City.   

On behalf of the AoU, our thanks to AoU members Nick Walker, Paul Morsley, Lorraine Landels, Diarmaid Lawlor, Henry Mellen, Eva Voulgaridou, and Tom Butler-Weeks, for their thoughtful curation and planning of the sessions, and to Alan Miller for poster design.  

Thank you to our speakers on Romance: Louise Welsh, Lily Heise, Will Jennings and Zoe Strachan; Everyday: Selina Hales, Mitch Miller, Jennifer Novotny, Karen Anderson; and Play: Fergus Anderson, Dinah Bornat, Anne Marie Galmstrup, Gavin Thompson.

In addition, thanks go to the 17 members of the Advisory Group of the AoU in Scotland, and Jas Atwal, David Rudlin, and Ian Tod, for their involvement in the earlier stages; as well as our three series sponsors, Collective Architecture, Iglu and Ibstock Brick.

The Congress website is now LIVE, and can be found at https://congress.academyofurbanism.org.uk/. See you in June!