One week to go (courtesy of a summer deadline extension): #TESTUNIT 2019 🎉 It’s (almost) Summer. It’s *deadline* season. 👉 By popular request, we’ve extended ours to 10am Friday 17 May. Go to agile-city.com/test-unit to find out more and apply for this years programme.

📣 Deadline claxon! Applications close tomorrow (Friday / 10am) for this years #Testunit - thanks everyone who has applied so far!

Scenes from an @archifringe opening party, install, and exhibition. Incredibly proud of the team who work on this, excellent volunteers, and all the people who submit projects, time and energy to the open programme. Festival runs til 23rd June ... ✊💥 🎉

QUEER SPACE PANEL DISCUSSION \o/ 🏳️‍🌈 Join OH141 boss @sarrawild this Tuesday evening to explore queer architectures, spatial programming and social occupation through the queer Glasgow club scene. Image: Cécile Ngọc Sương Perdu TKTS £5/£3/£0 > eventbrite.co.uk/e/architecture…

Time to catalyse some action during Architecture Fringe whilst contributing to the restoration of a beautiful treasure of a building: the Britannia Panopticon Architectural education is not #ClimateEmergency ready: so join us as we start to make it so. eventbrite.co.uk/e/anthropocene…

If you're in Glasgow we're also really excited to be involved in this year's Architecture Fringe exhibition with the Church of Colocation, a gamespace+drawings reimagining data repositories for our digital narratives and memories.

Our new podcast is live! Listen to our first ever episode ‘Meet the team’ on SoundCloud. We will be publishing a new episode every day, giving you a deeper look into #ArchiFringe past and present 🙌🏼 soundcloud.com/user-862503886…

The calm before #testunit storm. Due to start in just over an hour, at civic house/ @agilecity_ . If you’re passing this week, come by to see what’s happening, and some great events lined up with pecha kucha (Wednesday @thewhiskybond), richard Sennett talk, Thursday, civic haus…

#testunit underway with 👌💥🔥 talk from Aude-Line Dulière on projects at the AA and ‘disassembly’ with Rotor. @agilecity_

Fascinating observe/locate/retrieve/map workshop outcomes at @agilecity_ #testunit this morning, including a group retrieving this pot-hole tar bag with on-point typography.

Day 2 slides in to 3 of @agilecity_ #testunit (or is it 1 in to 2?) with some experimenting and exploring with materials, and some excellent talks from @ewan.alston and many more @thewhiskybond ... today is more project work, and talk this evening with Richard Sennett

Day 3 in to 4 of @agilecity_ #testunit with great talk from Richard Sennett / @cityastheatre - and a focussing in on sound as interconnected system of interest, as quite obviously demonstrated by this high-end prototype. (📸 Paria Goodsari)

MONDAY | GLASGOW Share in conversation with some of Architecture's few people of colour. Part of our core programme, /OTHER is a research and design project highlighting common struggles that people of colour face in architectural education. Book here: buff.ly/2X9Ltr1

Day 9 (?) of #testunit with @agilecity_ in making mode. Team: Rectangle Assemble #raydaledower #tobypaterson with @cityastheatre 🙌💥🤔

Exhausted/exhilarated at the end of a creative, critical, challenging and energising Agile City CIC #testunit week. Massive thank you to all participants, contributors and visitors, fellow facilitators. Architecture Fringe

If your idea of a fun weekend is filling in Google forms, make sure it’s this one. (gsadirector.xyz). 🤖

This is either our Spotify #decadewrapped or a list of possible discussion points - can find it here: docs.google.com/document/d/1tE… - and head to gsadirector.xyz to add your views. 🙏🤖 #opensource #jobapplication

Important events this week ;) ... thanks to everyone who has contributed so far!

If you haven’t got one and a half hours to spare, and you prefer heavily cropped gifs to YouTube videos, here it is in 30 seconds:

Short clip from a talk Alasdair Gray generously gave in 2015 in the caseroom of The Glasgow School of Art for A Feral Studio, organised by my bookcase and Edwin and Me. Sensitively filmed by Callum Rice (🙏), overview/sections of talk can be viewed via link in bio. #grayday The Alasdair Gray Archive 🔥✨💕