Brilliant . . Lesley Lokko curator of Venice Biennale Architecture 2023 announces her programme. Founder of African Futures Institute, Lesley was born in Dundee & divides her time between Scotland, Ghana & now Venice! labiennale.org/en/news/bienna…

Join us tomorrow Thurs from 3 - 5pm V&A Dundee & meet the designers showing their work in our exhibition celebrating contemporary design ingenuity & innovation, Design for Our Times. Free - all welcome!

A brilliant evening of celebration & conversation!

JOIN US this Weds 15th online for MAKING LOCAL with Make Works Scotland & Glasgow design practice Future Practice to talk creative collaborations, making & manufacturing & their exhibition design for Design for Our Times @VADunde - 6.30pm & free. Lively chat for all!

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Tomorrow is set up day for the Fife College Built Environment Fife College end of year exhibition. It’s been two years since we tackled this but it’s exciting, exhausting but worth every minute of effort when we see the pride in the faces of the students loved ones. We would love to see you there!

Edinburgh’s Category A listed Scottish Widows HQ by Basil Spence – under threat c20society.org.uk/news/developme…

Great coverage of our park benches Mount Stuart Visual Arts - you can take a seat until 15 October at Mount Stuart on the Isle of #bute !

Delighted that our benches for Mount Stuart Visual Arts feature in Dezeen! dezeen.com/2022/07/26/sit…

Our vacuum press has been bringing to life one of the successful designs in a competition run by DES | Design Exhibition Scotland. Designed by Chris Dobson, 3DReid, it is using homegrown Scottish Douglas Fir to make a unique bench from #CLT. bit.ly/3A73YiF

👋🏻 DES | Design Exhibition Scotland, met folk Cove Park today who are already en route to #Bute for #SittingPretty Mount Stuart Visual Arts. We also encouraged a few #residents to take a couple of ⛴s & come along. Looking forward to it! eventbrite.com/e/381597316847

Thrilled that the K-Briq, a brick developed & made in Scotland is the public vote winner of ⁦Dezeen⁩ sustainable design of the year. DES showed the brilliant K-Briq earlier this year in our Design for Our Times ⁦V&A Dundee⁩ dezeen.com/awards/2022/pu…

Brilliant to read this . . go see the show ⁦V&A Dundee⁩ if you can . . also featuring our Dixon drinking fountain, designed & fabricated by Mirrl of Glasgow . . inspired by the need reduce single-use plastic bottles. theguardian.com/artanddesign/2…

Brilliant Andrew Demetrius talking Scottish New Town Art & Sculpture for C20 Society. Interesting to hear how the towns of Irvine, Glenrothes, Cumbernauld, East Kilbride & Livingston invited artists to make site-specific work in the 60 & 70s. Here's Harding with Henge Glenrothes.

Brilliant visit to Botanic Garden University of Dundee to talk drinking fountains with @KevinFrediani & Simon Harlow of Mirrl, maker of fountains. Next year we'll install Mirrl's Dixon fountain in the Gardens, its colourway inspired by rhubarb! #scottishwater #lessplastic #dundee

Delighted to have made it on to the Architects’ Journal Small Projects 2023 shortlist with my bench for the Sitting Pretty event at Mount Stuart Trust , as commissioned by DES | Design Exhibition Scotland and fabricated by Built Environment - Smarter Transformation . Such a lovely team to work with!

Sitting Pretty - delighted that Vista by Glasgow designer Rekha Maker is summering at Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Edinburgh. First seen at Mount Stuart on Bute, as one of our bench commissions, Vista is made of marblised Jesmonite & is a beauty - place take a seat!