V&A Dundee are offering a special edition of our Work in Progress programme in collaboration with Scotland + Venice.

Bringing together creatives working across architecture, you will hear lightening talks, take part in group workshops with V&A Dundee and 7N Architects, as well as a 30 minute 1-2-1 tutorial with a special guest tutor.

The session will run on Zoom from 10:00-16:30 on Wednesday 6th October 2021.

For your personal 1-2-1 tutorial you will be matched with a tutor based on the information provided in your application. You can express a preference of guest tutor, but we can’t guarantee that you will be assigned that tutor (but we will try our best!). You will have the chance to chat to all the tutors at the end of the day.

To take part in Work in Progress x What if…?/ Scotland you will need to be available for whole day. We will email you all the details in advance, along with a Zoom link and notes on how to join. You will need access to a steady internet connection and a device with audio and video capacity.

Applications are open now and eligible participants will be offered a spot on a first-come, first-served basis – so get your application in quick!

To apply, fill out our brief application form via the link below.

Work in Progress x What if…?/ Scotland is open to architecture students based in Scotland.

We encourage applications from all communities and backgrounds. Be sure to let us know of any access requirements we should be aware of in your application form.

Successful applicants’ information will be shared with the assigned tutor to provide context for the tutorial and so everyone can prepare.

Jude Barber is an architect and director at Collective Architecture based in Scotland. The 100% employee-owned and controlled studio is founded on principles of creative freedom, equity, and sustainability. Jude is a Board member of the Glasgow Women’s Library, sits on the RIBA Working Group ‘Architects for Change’ and RIAS Council. In 2018, Jude was named ‘Creative Industry Leader of the Year’ at the Scottish Women’s Awards and more recently shortlisted for the 2020 Building Design ‘Architectural Leader of the Year’. Together with Suzanne Ewing and Nicola McLachlan, Jude co-leads Voices of Experience project as an investigation into undiscovered, legendary women who have made important contributions to architecture and the built environment.

Find out more: www.judebarber.com

Shamiso Oneka is a spatial practitioner whose interdisciplinary practice spans research, writing, education, making and design. She has exhibited her work at Tate Exchange and the London Design Festival, and has published articles in FRAME and Blueprint magazines. Shamiso is an Associate Lecturer at the Cambridge School of Art and a tutor at Central Saint Martins. Her teaching centres on material cultures and the construction of collective and individual narratives in built form and public interventions that are place and body specific. Shamiso has contributed research-led design guidance that has been adopted by the Mayor of London and London Boroughs. She works with communities to imagine and co-produce alternative futures in response to the divergent experiences and desires of different groups in society.

Find out more: @oneka_s

Andy Campbell and Matt McKenna are architects and founders of Dress for the Weather. They have led the studio for over 10 years to become an established and alternative model of architectural practice. In 2020 the practice was listed on the Architects’ Journal 40 under 40 and AJ100 Disruptors lists.

Find out more: www.dressfortheweather.co.uk

Ann-Marie Fallon is an Irish architect and Passivhaus designer, interested in architecture which centres a much-needed new vernacular dealing with reduction of energy and carbon emissions. Ann-Marie is passionate about education and contributes to many third level institutions. Embedding advocacy in practice, Ann-Marie is interested in creating intervention within existing contexts: noting that the climate emergency demands we give this much higher priority in architectural practice.

Abby Bird is a spatial practitioner with a focus on public architecture. Her work champions social and spatial changes that are truly designed with, and are representative of, the people that enliven them. At JA Projects, Abby has lead a range of projects, from the refurbishment of one of London’s most diverse markets to research for the Commission for Diversity in the Public Realm. As co-founder of Reclaim: Public Space and co-ordinator at Public Studio, she has developed a range of collaborative working models for sharing power, instilling civic ownership and activating public space.

Find out more: www.ja-projects.com

Manijeh Verghese is a co-curator of The Garden of Privatised Delights - the British Pavilion at the 17th International Venice Architecture Biennale - and co-founder of Unscene Architecture. She is the Head of Public Engagement at the Architectural Association (AA), where she is also a Unit Master of Diploma 12, a seminar leader for the AA Professional Practice for Fifth Year course, and a member of the Senior Management Team. She was on the curatorial panel for the 2021 London Festival of Architecture, and is currently an External Examiner at Cambridge University and a member of the Future City Curatorial Committee

Madeleine Kessler is a co-curator of The Garden of Privatised Delights - the British Pavilion at the 17th International Venice Architecture Biennale - co-founder of Unscene Architecture and director of Madeleine Kessler Architecture. Trained as an architect and engineer, she has worked at studios in Basel, Beijing and London on projects including Battersea Arts Centre, Theatre Royal Drury Lane, and Oslo Airport City. She sits on the National Infrastructure Commission's Design Group and teaches at the London School of Architecture and AA. She was and named in the Architects' Journal's 40 under 40 and awarded the RIBA Rising Star Award.

Find out more: www.unscenearchitecture.com

Peter McCaughey is an Artist and the Director of WAVEparticle, an award-winning art organisation he set up in 2005 to explore the role of art and the artist in the process of building and rebuilding place. WAVEparticle collaborates with others to produce new processes, events and objects focused on re-thinking how the places we live in, and the systems that regulate our lives, move to a more creative, connective model. WAVE supports particle, McCaughey’s independent self-directed practice, including Cultural Hijack. Peter currently teaches on the Sculpture and Environmental Art programme at Glasgow School of Art and also teaches internationally.

Find out more: www.waveparticle.co.uk

Andrew Piggott is an architect who has practiced in London and Edinburgh. In his ten-year career to date, he has delivered a gallery for rare books and manuscripts at the University of Oxford’s Bodleian Library, a salmon smokehouse in the Outer Hebrides and a number of award-winning residential schemes. Andrew recently co-curated the What If…? / Scotland exhibition with 7N Architects, and is currently working with Architecture & Design Scotland on the Climate Action Towns project, working to incite place-based climate action in small Scottish towns.

A core part of V&A Dundee’s programme, Work in Progress connects emerging creatives and final year students with leading creative practitioners for advice, feedback and support.

This collaboration is part of the associated public programme for What if…?/ Scotland. Originally designed to be staged in Venice as part of the 17th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, the exhibition responds to the Biennale’s theme How will we live together? What if…?/ Scotland is showing at V&A Dundee until 21 November 2021.

Though not possible in 2021, Scotland + Venice usually offers a dedicated Professional Development Programme for students, graduates and early year professionals, do keep an eye out for future opportunities.

All images: Bash Art Creative