Join us for our second workshop as part of the series Homes and Habitats: Cultivating Connection, where we will be exploring the shifting ecologies and layered landscapes of the Walthamstow Wetlands ✨
Led alongside our collaborator Lora Todorova from @londonwildlifetrust , this workshop invites participants to reflect on what home, migration and belonging mean for both human and more-than-human beings. Through a guided walking tour across the Wetlands, we will observe migratory birds, native and non-native trees, plants and surrounding habitats, paying attention to the relationships that shape this living landscape.
Following a path through the reservoirs, we will get closer to these ecologies and record our experience collectively through conversations, sensory mapping, and drawing.
Come ready to listen, reflect and create within a welcoming and collaborative environment ✨
The outputs from the workshop will be documented and displayed in our exhibition at Microscope Gallery, Dalston, hosted as part of the @londonfestivalofarchitecture in June. Stay tuned for more details about the exhibition over the coming weeks!
Head to our link in bio to sign up for a free ticket via Eventbrite. Spaces are limited, so grab yours soon! Please also check the visitor information and access requirements for the Wetlands on our Eventbrite page before attending. If you have any questions or accessibility needs, don’t hesitate to get in touch with us.
🏡 Doors open at 10:30am
⏰ Guided walking tour: 11:00am–1:00pm
📅 Saturday, 30th May
📍 Walthamstow Reservoirs, Engine House, 2 Forest Road, N17 9NH
Excited to see you there!
The AFYTs
Introducing our collaborator Bushra Mohamed ✨
Bushra is an architect, academic, writer, and the Director of Msoma Architects, a London-based studio that centres around diasporic identities, cultures, and people within the built environment. She explores the themes of home, belonging and migration, with a focus on addressing gaps in archives and representing the pluralism of shared histories.
Thank you Bushra for collaborating with us and we look forward to sharing our stories on the 23rd of May ✨
Location : The Glass Room, Lea bridge Library Lea Bridge Rd, London E10 7HU
Time : 15.30 - 17.00
Grab your free tickets from the link in our bio ✨
We are super excited to invite you to Queer Belonging: Past, present and future, a panel discussion and exhibition for the @londonfestivalofarchitecture 💞
We are so happy to share that we will be joined by @ulrikesteven , @peliqueiro88 and @xyz_projects for our panel discussion! Celebrating their contributions to the built environment and alternative practice and exploring our own spatial queeries, followed by an audience Q&A!
Over the last few months we have been running a series of queer reading groups, building upon our network and exploring the intersection between architecture and queerness by challenging existing practice and structures. Our exhibition will share these findings and stories and will be open throughout the day!
Huge shout out to our supporters Marchus Trust Fund and @architecturelgbt for helping us realise this initiative, we are super grateful.
Head to our link in bio to get your free tickets!
🗺️ Exhibition: 12-6pm
🤝Panel: 2-4pm
📍 QUEER BRITAIN, 2 Granary Square, London N1C 4BH
🎟️ FREE
Can’t wait to see you there!
The AFYTs x
Join us for our first workshop as part of the series ‘Homes and Habitats: Cultivating Connection’, where we will be exploring the scale of the Home ✨
Led alongside architect, academic and writer Bushra Mohamed, this workshop will explore practices of belonging, asking questions around what belonging looks like, how spaces can foster it, and what shared rituals and rhythms nurture it over time. We will endeavour to answer these questions through shared conversations, drawing, and collage-making.
We invite all participants to bring an object, or an image of one, that represents home to them and that they feel personally connected to. This will serve as a starting point for reflection and creative exploration.
The workshop is held on the 23rd of May in Walthamstow. Exact time and location is to be confirmed. Come ready to share, listen, and create in a welcoming and collaborative space. ✨
The outputs from the workshop will be recorded and displayed in our exhibition hosted as a part of the London Festival of Architecture in June. This will take place at Microscope Gallery, Dalston. Stay tuned for more details on the exhibition in the following weeks!
Head to our link in bio to sign up for a free ticket via Eventbrite. Spaces are limited so grab your tickets now!
Excited to see you there!
The AFYTs
We are excited to invite you to our third reading group of the series! ☆
Join us for a discussion and workshop around Wild Things: The Disorder of Desire by Jack Halberstam with Lenny Rajmont!
Lenny Rajmont (he/they) is a London-based landscape architect and the founder of @_queerscapes a platform bringing together queer and trans practitioners across architecture, landscape architecture, public space design and the built environment.
Their work explores how queer perspectives can reshape public space, challenging exclusionary practices and advocating for more inclusive, equitable design, through the critique of rainbow-washing in the design industry. We can’t wait to collaborate with them on exploring the deviation of normative within the context of wilderness and landscapes.
Our previous sessions motivated themes of disruption and repair, heteronormative structures and alternative paths. These then moved into conversations around how and if ‘queer’ space can be defined, unassuming and accidental propositions of ‘queer space’ from different global, cultural and gendered perspectives. Our third and final reading group looks to build upon these discussions outside of the urban context.
Whether you have read the book or not, come along for a dive into the text through a creative workshop and discussion, unpacking the power of a ‘queer’ perspective in the built environment and landscape.
Head to our link in bio to sign up for a free ticket via Eventbrite!
Doors at 7pm
🪴 Discussion + Workshop 7.30-9pm
📅 14.05.26
📍 Corner, 117 New Cross Rd, SE14 5DJ
Excited to see you there!
The AFYTs
Thank you so much for everyone for joining us on our second reading group a couple weeks back!
During the session we explored Queer Spaces: Atlas of LGBTQ+ Places and Spaces, sharing stories and precedents to continue painting our collective picture on how or if these spaces can be defined and their significance.
It was a special evening that allowed us to collectively explore stories the queering of different, unassuming and accidental propositions from perspectives that spanned different countries, culture and genders. Thank you to all for brining your own narratives of public, communal and domestic queer spaces.
Taking inspiration from the Museum of Transology’s archive, we applied tags to document these spaces and stories, we are super excited to build on this across future workshops and programming and continue celebrating the different perspectives, individuals and practitioners contributing to our conversations.
It was great to be joined by both familiar and new faces as our network of like minded practitioners continues to grow. We can’t wait to invite you all to our next reading group!
Shout out one of Queer Spaces editors @poshuamard3ll for coming along and brining your perspective to the workshop and another thank you to @cornernewcross for hosting our second workshop.
See you all soon!
The AFYTs
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✨ We are excited to share a small update on our On Common Ground Workstream. ✨
For the past couple of months we have been working on the development of a workshop series on the theme of Homes and Habitats: Cultivating Connection. Focusing on the diverse Borough of Waltham Forest, we aim to explore our changing relationship to land through the aspects of care, identity and belonging across three scales: Wetlands, Neighbourhood and Home.
We have been collaborating with some truly incredible practicioners to curate this series, and can’t wait to share our work over the next few months.
Right now, however, we are seeking support. As a self-funded collective, we’re seeking small contributions from like-minded design practices to cover the costs of materials, venue, and collaborators.
If this resonates with you, or if you have any questions or suggestions for us, please reach out via email or on our social media channels.
We’re very excited to share that the YTs have now got a home on the @architecturefoundation website. 🎉
Our new ‘Young Trustees’ section has been created to highlight our current work, alongside projects from previous cohorts. We see this as a growing archive and a space to document, reflect, and build a more complete picture of what we do over time.
🔗 Head to the link in our bio to explore:
- Who we are: meet past and present Young Trustees, and learn about our roots and manifesto.
- What we do: discover our workstreams, workshops, and engagement activities from across the years.
- Work with us: find our how to collaborate with us or support our work.
A big thank you to Ben Chernett for developing the website with us. We can’t wait to keep expanding this archive with all the exciting programming coming up this summer!
The YTs x
We are running our second Spatial Queeries event! 💞
Join us for a reading group and workshop on Queer Spaces: An Atlas of LGBTQ+ Places and Stories by Adam Nathaniel Furman and Joshua Mardell.
Our first reading group, earlier this year, evoked themes of disruption and repair, heteronormative structures and alternative paths into (and out of) architecture.
Our second reading group of the year will build on topics previously discussed but with a particular lens on the different forms queer space takes in the city what are examples of queer space? How does queerness come into space? Can you design a queering of space?
Whether you have read the book or not, join us for our workshop to explore and share queer perspectives of space.
Head to our link in bio to sign up for a free ticket via Eventbrite!
Doors at 7pm
🗺️ Discussion + Workshop 7.30-9pm
📅 12.03.26
📍 Corner, 117 New Cross Rd, SE14 5DJ
We can wait to see you there!
The AFYTs x
Last week we hosted our first ever Spatial Queeries reading group, discussing Queer Phenomenology by Sara Ahmed with @ulrikesteven 🎀
Thank you so much to everyone who joined and brought their perspectives and stories on practice, queerness and design.
Queer theory and theory more broadly can be challenging to access and resonate to outside of the academic world, we look to curate safe spaces where individuals from all fields can contribute to a wider conversation and feel honoured to those who did so last week.
The conversation was rich and honest considering a wide range of perspective;
• Deviation from architecture and societies predetermined ‘straight line’
• Financial access to deviation and taking risks
• Personal turning points
• The relationship between artist and architect
• Finding home not necessarily in the physical sense
Fundamentally, we explored how we can continue to disrupt existing structures of practice and meaningfully connect like-minded people with a shared focus.
This is just the beginning of the exploration of our queeries and what the intersection of queerness and the built environment can mean for individuals and practitioners, we can’t wait to see how it continues to grow!
Shout out to @cornernewcross for hosting our first event and we look forward to returning soon.
Stay tuned for more upcoming events!
The AFYTs x
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As part of our Spatial Queeries initiative, a few of the AFYT team took a research trip to the @womensartlibrary curated by Dr Althea Greenan. Part of the Special Collections and Archives at Goldsmiths University, hosting an extensive collection of print, photographic and artistic documentation, demonstrating women’s engagement with the arts (emerging from the international women’s art movements of the 1970s!)
We enjoyed the variety of material, from well-known feminist artists like the Guerrilla Girls, promotional material fighting for lesbian, gay and trans rights, spatial tool kits, zines exploring gender and sexuality and workshop recordings sharing personal insights of feminist practice.
The visit was very exciting and generated key inspiration for future workshops and an insight into the complex world of archiving!
Thank you to @womensartwatcher for showing us around the archive and sharing specialised insights to the collection.
We look forward to translating our learning from the Special Collections and Archives into our programming and hope to visit again soon!
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We are very excited to invite you to our first Spatial Queeries workshop 💞
Join us for our reading group exploring Queer phenonmenology, an introduction to Sara Ahmed’s seminal text with @ulrikesteven
Ulrike is an Architect and teacher, Stage 2 leader at CSM’s MArch programme and Co-founded what if: projects, their work crosses the boundary between community enabler, architect and infrastructure designer.
Ulrike describes themselves as a queer design practitioner, and has been inspired by Ahmed’s work. To quote their recent lecture at Aedes, Berlin, “I emphasise the perspective I bring to design and education. This matters because architecture is neither diverse nor neutral, and many voices remain absent. My position as a queer, female-born architect is not merely personal - it shapes the way I design, teach, and imagine futures.”
Whether you have read the book or not, come along for a dive into the text through a creative workshop and discussion, unpacking the power of a ‘queer’ perspective in the built environment!
Head to our link in bio to sign up for a free ticket via Eventbrite. Make sure to reserve your spot soon as we have limited number of tickets!
Massive thank you to @cornernewcross for having us!
Doors at 7pm
💗 Discussion + Workshop 7.30-9.30pm
📅 22.01.26
📍 Corner, 117 New Cross Rd, SE14 5DJ
We can wait to see you there!
The AFYTs x
