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Date: 26 May 2026More info For the opening night, we’ve got some cool ideas planned around typography and letterforms. Details to follow soon. Join us on for the opening night (19:00—22:00 CET), to discover the very best of graphic design using typography, as well type and lettering projects of the year. [Tickets are free, but…

Start date: 15 June 2026End date: 20 June 2026 We will be celebrating the class of 2026 through the building blocks of our typographic craft – the 26 letters of the alphabet. [Free. entry. Public show doesn’t require pre-booking.]

Date: 21 June 2026More info During this workshop with a letterpress/graphic artist, participants will design, typeset, and produce a unique letterpress printed poster. The workshop will utilise the museum’s collection of wood types. It will be a hands-on experience, covering the fundamentals of letterpress printing techniques and some of the craft’s history and background. Beautiful…

Start date: 3 November 2026End date: 5 November 2026More info As cities grow and technology accelerates, this congress stands as the leading global event advancing urban mobility. Held alongside Smart City Expo World Congress, TMWC brings together industry executives, transport leaders, and urban visionaries to tackle shared challenges and deliver proven solutions for greener, more inclusive…

Date: 11 June 2026More info Join Helena van Vliet for an engaging discussion on reducing stress through salutogenic design—an approach that focuses on creating environments that promote wellness at their core. In her talk, Helena will shed light on how our surroundings influence our physiology and share empowering, science-based strategies to design spaces that foster…

Date: 23 June 2026More info Research Rooms are informal online spaces for discussion with members of the research team from academia, practice and communities. About this session This session explores how neighbourhood environments shape access to everyday services and, in turn, influence health and inequality. Grounded in the University of Glasgow’s OPTIMA (Orienting Policy Towards Inequality Minimising…

Start date: 1 June 2026End date: 6 June 2026More info Where culture, creativity and technology meet. Grounded in practical optimism, we provide an inclusive platform to navigate growing global uncertainty. By convening the sharpest minds across politics, science, and the arts, through provocative debate and positive storytelling, we reframe the world’s most pressing challenges into…

Date: 20 May 2026More info In this session, we explore Conscious Design Principle 09: Reimagined — “Project goals are periodically reconsidered, affirmed, or reimagined.” Three speakers will share case studies from their practice, showing how land, buildings, and materials can be reinterpreted to reveal new uses, meanings, and futures. The session will include time for discussion…

Start date: 24 June 2026End date: 25 June 2026More info The OS Innovation Festival returns for two days of hands-on collaboration and geospatial problem solving. Bringing together leaders from government, utilities, tech, national resilience, finance and the built environment, the festival is designed to accelerate solutions to real world challenges using the power of location…

Date: 12 May 2026More 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…