Archives: Events
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Olympic urbanism: past, present and future
Date: 7 May 2024More info This half-day event accompanies the publication of a special issue of the journal Planning Perspectives on ‘Olympic urbanism’ and the launch of the fourth edition of Olympic Cities, edited by John and Margaret Gold – the standard text on the changing relationship between the Olympics and their host cities. It follows…
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Inclusive Design for Wayfinding Information
Date: 18 April 2024 Thursday, 18 April 2024 (12.30pm-5pm BST) All six symposium talks This symposium was sponsored by Modulex and Rivermeade. The Sign Design Society and Society of Experiential Graphic Design (London Chapter) collaborated to bring you an exciting, informative and interactive symposium with the latest thinking on inclusive design for wayfinding information. This…
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Glass-House Chat: the right to shape places
Date: 25 June 2024More info Our world and places are characterised by a diversity of individuals and groups representing the global majority, different cultures, gender identities, abilities and LGBTQIA+ people. However not everyone feels they have the same right to shape the city, from policy to practice to placemaking. What are the mechanisms that we…
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Glass-House Chats: wellbeing and placemaking
Date: 28 May 2024More info What impact does wellbeing have on citizens’ ability to support placemaking initiatives and to participate as members of society more generally? Wellbeing can be typically defined as the state of feeling healthy and happy, so how can the journey of placemaking be a way to further support the wellbeing of…
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Introduction to placemaking for civic partners
Date: 5 April 2024More info Institutions such as museums, performing arts companies, cultural centers, parks, libraries, and other community based-organizations are uniquely positioned to support a sense of civic engagement in their community due to the fact that they are apolitical. This free workshop will focus on opportunities where your arts, culture, and recreational programming…
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St. Bride Foundation: Justin Howes memorial lecture – with Jessica Hische
Date: 11 April 2024More info Justin Howes died on 21 February 2005. A good friend to the St Bride Library and the wider typographic community, in 1999 he founded the original Friends of St Bride Library with James Mosley. He was not only a distinguished scholar, whose wide-ranging research was making an important contribution to…
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Festival of Pineapples 2024
Start date: 16 April 2024End date: 18 April 2024More info See all 88 shortlisted projects presented to the judges live as we seek out the best buildings, projects, initiatives, developments, engagements and masterplans in a celebration of excellence in placemaking. Who will win the golden pineapple? The Pineapples awards are unique in seeking to celebrate great places where people…
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Semi-Complete: the process behind RISD Serif & RISD Sans
Date: 4 April 2024More info With Ryan Bugden, an in-depth reflection on the ideation, production, and implementation of Rhode Island School of Design’s new typographic palette.
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Healthy city design 2024
Start date: 15 October 2024End date: 16 October 2024More info Healthy City Design 2024 (HCD 2024) International Congress & Exhibition is a global forum for the exchange of knowledge on the research, policy and practice of designing healthy and sustainable cities and communities. Now in its 8th year and hosted for the second year running in…
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Built environment: from healthy buildings to system dynamics
Date: 6 June 2024More info Join us for the inaugural lectures of UCL Institute for Environmental Design and Engineering (IEDE) Professor Anna Mavrogianni and Professor Nici Zimmermann. Anna Mavrogianni is Professor of Sustainable, Healthy and Equitable Built Environment at UCL Institute for Environmental Design and Engineering. There she leads the Research Theme on Temperature, Moisture and…