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Living Streets UK Walking Summit 2026
Date: 25 March 2026More info Join sustainable transport experts from across the UK and beyond. The changes we make to our streets today will be with us for decades. The Summit will focus on how we plan today for streets that are fit for the future. We will discuss how to ensure that people walking…
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Fonts and AI Conference
Start date: 23 October 2025End date: 24 October 2025More info We are thrilled to announce the first fully dedicated conference to the topic of fonts and artificial intelligence. The idea for this conference was born in one of the panels of our Font Business conference earlier this year, and so we’ve decided to make it…
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Conference: Reimagining materials for a circular future
Date: 14 October 2025More info French flooring brand Tarkett has collaborated with design research agency FranklinTill to host this conference, the second event in their Inspire Circular series. The afternoon of talks explores the future of materials and designing for circularity, addressing all aspects of the design process, including research, breakthroughs and failures, and the creation of…
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St. Bride Foundation: Wood Engraving Taster Day
Date: 18 November 2025More info This one-day course is suitable for absolute beginners, as well as printmakers from other fields who would like to add wood engraving to their portfolio. Wood engraving is a relief printing process where an image is engraved into the end grain of a hard wood (traditionally Box wood) with specialist…
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The Great British Railways Signing Challenge: 60 Years of Learning and Unlearning
Date: 2 October 2025 Thursday 2 October 2025 (1pm BST / 2pm CEST) Daniel Wright’s talk Transport writer Daniel Wright’s overview of 60 years of British railway station signage. Starting with British Railways’ 1965 unified signage scheme and how it got lost, the talk moved through the anarchy of privatisation-era signage, before looking at how…
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FEM.DES Meet-Up in Mexico
Date: 5 November 2025More info Are you interested in architecture, urban design, and shaping the future of the city? Join us for a special meetup with members of FEM.DES in Mexico, along with Nourhan Bassam, founder of The Movement and author of The Gendered City. Don’t miss the chance to be part of this inspiring conversation and community!
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Historic Buildings and Places Annual Lecture: What did the railways do for us?
Date: 30 September 2025More info To mark 200 years since the birth of the modern railway, Tim Dunn will present a talk titled What did the railways do for us?. As the UK railway network celebrates its 200th anniversary, Tim tells the stories of remarkable buildings and structures that have been built for it, built because…
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The Academy of Urbanism 20th Anniversary Party
Date: 13 November 2025More info Don your glad rags and join us to celebrate two decades of the Academy of Urbanism! This year we are celebrating 20 years of learning from place at the Academy of Urbanism, and will be holding our Anniversary Party in London, kindly hosted at JTP, a longstanding supporter of the Academy. From…
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Japan House: Pictograms: Iconic Japanese Designs gallery tour
Date: 1 October 2025More info Discover the evolution of pictograms and Japan’s role in visual communication today in this gallery tour led by Japan House London Director of Programming Simon Wright. The tour explores the history of visual communication, from prehistoric cave paintings and Shang dynasty oracle bones to emoji and ubiquitous public signs. Japanese graphic…
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2025 SEGD Conference Experience San Francisco: Designing Possible Futures
Start date: 13 November 2025End date: 15 November 2025More info The future isn’t something we wait for—it’s something we shape. As designers of experiences, we don’t just create spaces. We shape how people move, what they feel, and what they remember. In San Francisco—a city defined by experimentation, layered histories, and competing visions of the…