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  • Placemaking Week Europe 2024

    Placemaking Week Europe 2024

    Start date: 24 September 2024End date: 27 September 2024More info Every year at Placemaking Week Europe, placemakers from around the world come together each year in a new host city to present expertise and ideas, share projects, discuss placemaking strategies and methodology, and work together with city municipalities to launch new placemaking initiatives in-situ. It…

  • Co-design opportunities in heritage interpretation and placemaking

    Co-design opportunities in heritage interpretation and placemaking

    Date: 18 July 2024More info This session will share various strategies for interdisciplinary collaboration between creative industry practitioners, heritage professionals, archival specialists, policymakers, and urban planners. Drawing from their work in Graphic Heritage, the session will be led by Dr Robert Harland and Dr Yolandi Burger from Loughborough University. They will recount the early exploratory phase of the ‘Named after Nelson:…

  • Lighting the Way to Sustainable Signage

    Lighting the Way to Sustainable Signage

    Date: 27 June 2024 Thursday, 27 June 2024 (1pm BST) A crash course seminar in sustainable signage illumination, with Applelec’s Lauren Flint. Lauren went back to basics, dispelling myths, busting the jargon and explaining the key features you need to look for in your illumination solution and what that means for your signage / wayfinding…

  • How to read a tree (with Tristan Gooley)

    How to read a tree (with Tristan Gooley)

    Date: 28 June 2024More info Join award-winning author Tristan Gooley at Piccadilly, as we celebrate his latest enlightening publication, How to Read a Tree.From the author of How to Read Water comes an accessible and illuminating guide to understanding the rich variety of trees through the hidden shapes and patterns that most people miss. Tristan will be delivering…

  • Exhibition: Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr.: Citizen Printer

    Exhibition: Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr.: Citizen Printer

    Start date: 29 June 2024End date: 31 January 2025More info The major solo exhibition features over 150 type-driven artifacts from the self-described “humble negro printer”. Through the use of bold language, graphic typography, and colorful layers, Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr.’s prints embody an intensity that catches the eye and provokes the mind. He is extremely…

  • Made By All: How to engage communities in climate adaptation

    Date: 11 July 2024More info Thoughtful and inclusive community engagement can be challenging in any democratic planning process or placemaking project, but the increasingly urgent need to adapt our built environment to respond to the climate crisis can further complicate things.  While many communities may support the idea of climate impact mitigation efforts, adaptation can…

  • Museums + Heritage Show 2025

    Museums + Heritage Show 2025

    Start date: 14 May 2025End date: 15 May 2025More info For more than 30 years, the Museums + Heritage Show has been bringing together the entire sector, enabling knowledge sharing and vital networking across all disciplines. There will be two jam-packed days featuring more than 70 talks, 90 speakers, 150 exhibitors, masterclasses, demos, networking sessions, recruitment advice, digital clinics,…

  • Women and planning: from theory to practice

    Women and planning: from theory to practice

    Date: 1 July 2024More info The ways in which we can better consider the needs of women and girls when planning our towns and cities is a subject that has been gathering increasing interest both in planning academia and practice. Questions are being asked as to what planning can do to make practice more inclusive,…

  • Urban design and architecture summer school ’24

    Urban design and architecture summer school ’24

    Start date: 15 July 2024End date: 21 July 2024More info A week long residential course providing a practical introduction to designing beautiful, sustainable, prosperous, economically and socially successful places that will stand the test of time. This course will introduce core urban design and architecture principles and practice. Run by Create Streets in conjunction with…

  • Fleet Street Quarter Climate Festival

    Fleet Street Quarter Climate Festival

    Start date: 25 June 2024End date: 26 June 2024More info Comprising a series of high-level debates, networking, and cultural events, the Festival’s overarching theme is, creating a blueprint for a more sustainable future.  Across the two days, more than 20 senior leaders in the sustainability, property, finance, media and legal sectors will share their insights…