Archives: Events
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The Urbanism Hour: The social impacts of large scale regenerations across London
Date: 26 September 2025More info A look at best practice and lessons about embedding social sustainability in theinvestment, design, planning, delivery and management of place. For September’s Urbanism Hour we’ll be joined by Mena Ali and Simeon Shtebunaev from Social Life. The talk will present best practice and decade-long learning about embedding social sustainability in the…
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The Bartlett (UCL) Autumn Show 2025
Start date: 24 September 2025End date: 5 October 2025More info The show showcases work by 400 students across seven of the school’s postgraduate programmes. The exhibition will run in the Bartlett School’s signature dual format, with a physical show at The Bartlett’s Bloomsbury home, and a full online show on our award-winning, interactive virtual platform, bartlettarchucl.com, where…
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University of Reading Department of Typography and Graphic Communication: 50th anniversary celebration
Date: 11 September 2025More info We’d like to invite our graduates, students, friends and University staff past and present to join us, during the University’s centenary year, to celebrate 50 years of the Department of Typography & Graphic Communication at Reading. Everyone is welcome to come along and share their stories of what the Department…
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Pictograms: Iconic Japanese Designs (@LDF25)
Start date: 3 November 2025End date: 9 November 2025More info Japan House London’s latest exhibition, Pictograms, explores how humble symbols have become an indispensable global communication tool — with Japan playing an integral role in their design and development. From ancient Egyptian carvings to contemporary wayfinding, pictograms have shaped how we communicate across cultures. The…
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Glass-House Chats: Designing In Stories
Date: 12 February 2026More info Every place is full of stories. When bringing a heritage building back to life, or when shaping any building, public space or whole neighbourhood, there is an opportunity to bring those stories to life. Whether through a collaborative design journey or through the physical changes made, there is something powerful…
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Glass-House Chats: Designing for transformation
Date: 16 October 2025More info Since 2005, the Transition Network and movement has grown across the UK and globally. Transition groups bring together local people to make change where they live, how they live in light of the climate and ecological emergency. This community-centric approach is slowly re-imagining the system through renewable energy projects, supporting…
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Glass-House Chats: Designing sustainable heritage
Date: 18 September 2025More info Many people see heritage buildings as a challenge too far when it comes to creating sustainable spaces for community or shared use. This needn’t be the case. Design innovations have come a long way, and so has our thinking about how to revitalise our heritage buildings for a more sustainable…
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Glass-House Chats: Regenerative Co-Design
Date: 13 November 2025More info What if we valued how we create more than what we create? If we want to design life-centric, regenerative places, the design journey itself needs to be a regenerative process. Regenerative co-design can bring people together around common curiosities and care of place to invite collective action that can bring us closer to life-centric…
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Ask the Glass-House: 3
Date: 9 September 2025More info Free online drop-in space where you can connect with national charity The Glass-House Community Led Design as a critical friend. Are you working on a community-led, participatory or collaborative design project to shape a building, open space, housing area or whole neighbourhood, or on a research project exploring collaborative design…
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CAE: An introduction to access and inclusive design
Date: 2 September 2025More info This online course run by the Centre for Accessible Environments (CAE) explores principles and practicalities of disability awareness and inclusive design in relation to the built environment. [Tickets cost £160. Register to attend.]