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Five open mouths excitedly sharing awesome ideas and accompanying hands 'exclaiming' to promote the SDS & SEGD London 17 September symposium (Postive Places) at London Design Festival 2026.

SDS & SEGD London symposium @LDF2026: ‘Positive Places’

Date: 17 September 2026
Time: 12:45 pm – 5:15 pm
In-person at 150 Holborn, London EC
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Past event

17 September 2026 (12.45pm-5.15pm BST)

Delegates discovered what’s positive and exciting in the world right now for wayfinding and placemaking, from bold, people-first design to smart new tech.

The agenda for the afternoon was:

  • 12:45–13:00 Welcome and intro
  • 13:00–13:30 Ibrahim Ibrahim (Portland): Place faking: a cultural revolution
  • 13:30–14:00 Cannon Ivers (LDA Design): Retrofit city: social ecologies in the symbiocene’
  • 14:00–14:30 Break
  • 14:30–15:00 Jessica Rose (Rise Up / Plastic Free Thanet): ‘Rise up: people, place, planet’
  • 15:00–15:30 Wesley Meyer (f.r.a.): ‘The power of ‘soft projects’. How gentle change gets unique results’
  • 15:30–16:00 Break
  • 16:00–16:30 Colin Davies and Nic Quinn (Sum Place): ‘Joy lives in the ordinary: making public art for shared spaces’
  • 16:30–17:00 Luciana Mattiello (STUDIOMDA): ‘Designing belonging: how environmental communication creates positive places’
  • 17:00–17:15 Wrap up 

21 September 2026 update: Unable to make the symposium in-person last week? Looking to purchase post-symposium access to the talk recordings? Thereafter, please email for more information.