Composite image for Birmingham Design Festival Talk: Mapping What Lasts, showing examples of different types of map.

Birmingham Design Festival 2026: Mapping What Lasts

Date: 11 June 2026
Time: 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
In-person at The Printmakers, 82 Fazeley Street, Birmingham, B5 5RD, UK
Third-party event
Composite image for Birmingham Design Festival Talk: Mapping What Lasts, showing examples of different  types of map.

Some things in design haven’t changed in a hundred years. Some will sound ridiculous in ten. This is a talk by Tudinh Duong about mapping change, in the work, in the studio, and in the discipline. What’s worth charting right now. What still works in a hundred years.

“On my desk, a Handbook for Travellers in Japan, fourth edition, 1894. The maps still work. What’s aged into curiosity is the page beside the map, an advertisement for a photo-engraving studio, the cutting edge of image reproduction at the time, now a footnote.

The map outlasts the technology that drew and surrounds it. I’ll traverse a few in the talk, through history, craft and culture, and through how a creative studio thinks about mapping and change for clients like the British Library, Bhutan, London Design Festival and ON Running. And a harder map too, which is the one every working designer is trying to draw right now, of a discipline that won’t sit still.”

[Free to attend. Book now.]