This year’s Architecture Fringe Festival is based on the theme of [UN]Learning - a recurring theme in NOOMA Studio’s work and a topic that is very much close to our hearts both professionally and personally as a collective design studio. From the outset it was obvious that our response needed to be conversational and true to our belief in the effectiveness of collective play-led storytelling.

We asked members and friends of the studio to each submit a personal spread that responds to the theme ‘[UN]Learning Through Play’ which has produced a typical studio discourse in zine form. Engaging with the festival this year has given us an opportunity to look deep within and to open a dialogue amongst our wider network on the theme of [UN]Learning. It has encouraged us to ask what more can be done to shake off the inherited knowledge and social structures that perpetuate the social injustices that we seek to deconstruct.