Archives: Events
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Regen 2024
Date: 10 September 2024More info Experts in regeneration, construction, property, planning, housing, transport and infrastructure will meet, greet and share insights on latest urban regeneration trends. Regeneration is about creating sustainable and resilient communities, and the Regen 2024 conference programme will once again reflect this. From freeing up green spaces to levelling up funds and…
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The Great Exhibition Road Festival: Reimagine London together (workshop)
Date: 16 June 2024More info The current way we plan our cities, towns and communities isn’t working. We’re sprawling out into nature, have poor quality homes, failing public services, increasing social isolation and climate challenges too. Join us to redesign our capital in a way that allows communities to flourish. Drawing on your hopes and…
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Handbook launch: Creating places that work for women and girls
Date: 11 July 2024More info Join the launch of the London Legacy Development Corporation’s handbook, “Creating Places that Work for Women and Girls”. This document is the outcome of three years of research and practice in gender-informed urban design and planning. For too long, cities have been designed by and for men, with a lack…
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Towards a gender-transformative & inclusive built environment
Date: 21 June 2024More info This talk explores cutting-edge research and projects that are revolutionising our perception of gender in the construction industry and built environment. It addresses the systemic obstacles that women encounter in these fields, while also highlighting proven strategies to promote gender equality. Attendees will gain valuable insights into how gender-transformative approaches…
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Explaining neurodiversity and how our spaces affect us: An Introduction for interior designers
Date: 13 July 2024More info In this two-hour course, participants will gain an understanding of neurodiversity and its profound implications on interior design. Neurodiversity encompasses the wide range of variations in the human brain and cognition, including conditions such as autism, ADHD, dyspraxia, dyslexia, and more. As interior designers, it is crucial to recognise and…
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Supercondensed+9, a mini festival
Date: 13 June 2024More info A day of online and in-person talks, workshops and portfolio reviews… A crash course in the design and advertising industry, live from Kyoto, Tokyo, Vietnam, Korea and London! A small number of in-person tickets are available to students and recent graduates in London. This will be held at G.F. Smith,…
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TypoCircle: Matt Lamont – collecting, curating and preserving histories
Date: 27 June 2024More info An illustrated talk with Matt Lamont of Design Reviewed. Matt’s vast collection of graphic design spans over a century, encompassing a remarkable collection of well over 5,000 artefacts. Ranging from the opulent and decorative crafted designs of the Victorian era to the rebellious and boundary-pushing graphic assemblage of the 1980s,…
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1970s old school lettering skills with Michael Doret & Norman Hathaway
Date: 17 June 2024More info A journey through the time tunnel back to the 1970s when proletariat lettering artists created their artwork using plastic circle templates, German cartridge pens, adjustable triangles, and razor blades. Contemporary designers are infatuated with lettering generated during the seventies but have had little access to how the designs were actually…
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What is realness? Freeing type from a fixed viewpoint
Date: 10 June 2024More info This talk will take place in-person at The Cooper Union & will be live-streamed. A link to access the livestream will be sent 24 hours prior to the event. Can a single typeface express diverse viewpoints through its own functionality? Partners from two design studios, Polymode and XYZ Type, discuss…
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World Urban Forum 12
Start date: 4 November 2024End date: 9 November 2024More info Convened by UN-Habitat, the Forum is a high level, open and inclusive platform for addressing the challenges of sustainable urbanisation. Representatives of national, regional and local governments, academics, business people, community leaders, urban planners and civil society representatives will be among the thousands of people…