Updated on 22 July ’26. Discover what’s positive and exciting in the world right now for wayfinding and placemaking, from bold, people-first design to smart new tech.
We’re delighted to announce the outstanding speakers who will be joining us:
- Colin Davies and Nic Quinn (Sum Place): ‘Joy lives in the ordinary: making public art for shared spaces’
- Ibrahim Ibrahim (Portland): Talk title tbc
- Cannon Ivers (LDA Design): Retrofit city: social ecologies in the symbiocene’
- Luciana Mattiello (STUDIOMDA): ‘Designing belonging: how environmental communication creates positive places’
- Wesley Meyer (f.r.a.): ‘The power of ‘soft projects’. How gentle change gets unique results’
- Jessica Rose (Rise Up / Plastic Free Thanet): ‘Rise up: people, place, planet’
We’ve also got a brilliant venue lined up: accessible, welcoming, and just a really good place to spend a day thi`nking, talking, and bumping into people you’re genuinely glad to see.
Venue: 150 Holborn, London, EC1N 2NS, England [map]
Date: Thursday, 17 September (12:45 PM – 5:15 PM *)
For now, stick the date in your diary, spread the word, buy your ticket(s) @£40pp* via Eventbrite, and keep an eye out for updates. Not able to join us in person on the day? You can also buy a ticket for link access to all six talk recordings, to enjoy in your own time and space after the symposium has taken place.
[* The ticket cost includes attendance at the symposium which runs from 12.45pm to 5.15pm, and the networking drinks reception from 5.15pm ’til 7.15pm on-site afterwards].
We anticipate high demand for tickets for the upcoming symposium. To help keep our event welcoming and diverse, we’re placing a cap of three tickets per organisation. This ensures more studios and teams can join us on the day, and be part of the ‘positive places’ conversation.
More details soon …