Archives: Events
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Sharing Place: Common ground
Date: 27 February 2025More info This event will seek to uncover and build upon the shared starting points that unite us. In an era of increasing societal division, it’s vital to recognise that connections still exist across our communities. A recent report from Britain’s Choice highlighted that “protecting our environment and acting on climate change…
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Sharing Place: Closing event
Date: 2 April 2025More info In the last event of the 2024/25 WEdesign season, this online debate will bring together voices from across the Sharing Place programme to build on some of the key ideas and discussion points from across the series. With speakers representing diverse perspectives from our in-person events, Think Pieces and Student Programme, we’ll…
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Placemaking with children and young people
Date: 4 February 2025More info Training Based on our Rights-based “How To Guide”, for co-creating Neighbourhood Plans with children and teenagers. This training provides professionals, community leaders, and organisations with the tools to effectively include children’s voices in place and neighbourhood planning. By learning from our extensive practical experience, you’ll gain skills and insights for…
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Sign Industry Awards 2025
Date: 24 February 2025More info The Sign Industry Awards, presented by Sign Update and Sign & Digital UK, celebrate excellence in the visual communications sector by honouring past achievements, present innovations, and future advancements. These awards recognise outstanding suppliers, sign makers, and individual traders in sign making, digital printing, and visual communications. With over 35…
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The Bartlett in-person postgraduate open evening
Date: 5 February 2025More info Explore masters courses at the world’s #1 university for architecture and the built environment. We’re here to build a better future. The Bartlett, UCL’s Faculty of the Built Environment, is a thriving community of 4,000 students from over 50 countries, studying across 80+ different courses. Our vision is a world where…
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St Bride Foundation: Wood engraving (relief printing) taster day
Date: 25 February 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…
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2025 Fontstand Conference
Start date: 14 March 2025End date: 15 March 2025More info Fontstand’s fifth annual typography conference returns to The Hague! Join world-class type designers and typographers from around the world for a packed two-day program of presentations and discussions. The first day of the event starts with a series of practical workshops focusing on type design, scripting, and type…
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Urban Future ’25
Start date: 21 May 2025End date: 23 May 2025More info Our mission is to support you to change your city for the better. That’s why we love to inspire, challenge, and connect you with the world’s most impressive urban change-makers. We do this through Europe’s largest events for urban sustainability, taking place in different cities and…
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Festival of Place 2025
Date: 2 July 2025More info The Festival of Place unites professionals working on urban places and mixed-use property to address the biggest challenges facing UK towns and cities. It’s a space for bold ideas, fresh perspectives, and honest conversations. Join an audience of over 600 pan-industry professionals, with an emphasis on learning and making connections. Agenda themes include urban health, spatial…
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The Beck Effect: How London’s Look Went Global
Date: 12 December 2024 Almost every city in the world show their transit systems as a diagram, and most of those can trace their original inspiration to London’s fabled Underground map. Conceived in the early 1930s by Henry (aka Harry) Beck, his concept of representing curvaceous track routes and labyrinthine tunnels with straightened coloured lines, evening…