Archives: Events
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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.]
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Film screening and panel discussion for ‘The social life of small urban spaces’
Date: 26 September 2025More info In partnership with The Municipal Art Society of New York and Anthology Film Archives (AFA), Project for Public Spaces is proud to announce the digital restoration of William H. “Holly” Whyte’s 1980 film, ‘The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces’. The film will be screened in a series at AFA, which digitally restored the film, starting with a premier…
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British Cartographic Society Annual Conference 2025
Start date: 3 September 2025End date: 4 September 2025More info This year’s conference is based on the theme of Managing Our Landscapes and includes a broad range of speakers from DEFRA, BGS, Registers of Scotland, ESRI and leading academics. Programme: Day 1: GeoViz Hands-On Workshops BGS site visits …
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Festival of Place: Climate resilience 2025
Start date: 20 October 2025End date: 21 October 2025More info Update your thinking and learn from new research and pilot schemes. Find out how to transform, design and develop places that are ready for uncertain and unpredictable weather events and policy changes, such as the phasing out of fossil fuels. Delivered live with Q&A over…
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International symposium: Reclaiming hope
Start date: 18 September 2025End date: 19 September 2025More info Join us for this symposium, hosted by the Centre for Creativity (MAO) in cooperation with international partners and the organizers of the fifth Design+Science summer school. The event explores various ways in which design and architecture are coping with the uncertainty of the modern world and shaping a more just,…
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St Bride Foundation: They Refuse to Keep Quiet
Date: 28 October 2025More info Thirty Years of the Women’s Design + Research Unit (WD+RU). Within the contemporary context of social, political, and economic uncertainty the importance of having a voice for change is increasingly urgent and necessary. Thirty years ago, the Women’s Design + Research Unit (WD+RU) was formed in response to the male-dominated…
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St Bride Foundation: Alphabet in Motion
Date: 9 October 2025More info Join St Bride Foundation and Kelli Anderson to celebrate the publication of Alphabet in Motion. An ingenuous feat of paper engineering that features an interactive cover, seventeen pop-ups plus multiple manual experiments in light and shape, Alphabet in Motion is an immersive volume that explains and demonstrates the technologies and philosophies that have…