Archives: Events
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Public Space Academy: keynote lecture
Date: 29 February 2024More info Free, interdisciplinary educational programme aimed at establishing a new approach to urban complexity built around public space.
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SEGD: Design & healthcare
Date: 21 March 2024More info Design plays a vital role in health care to improve the patient experience, can help to improve recovery results and optimize the health care process efficiency. Virtual event with discussion on how design can succeed the quality of the patient experience and empathetic health care, and how the well being…
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Natasha Reid on shaping places for health, wellbeing and social sustainability
Date: 15 February 2024More info Without a deep understanding of how people experience the places we create, how can we aim to shape built environments that could fully enable human and social wellbeing? Natasha Reid is founder of MATTER SPACE SOUL, a specialist design lab shaping places for health, wellbeing and social sustainability. Having practiced in architecture,…
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Festival of Futures
Start date: 8 March 2024End date: 15 March 2024More info Flagship events, workshops and an exhibition of cutting-edge design research drawn from four centres of design research excellence across the UK, 8-15th March 2024 at Lancaster University.
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Imagination now & next
Date: 8 March 2024More info Design has power. It is the ultimate interdisciplinary enabler. Design research allows us to question prevailing approaches and inspire new ones, demonstrating not just what could be plausible in the near future but why it might be preferable. Join us at the Festival of Futures as Imagination and our partners…
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Old type, new type: Marta Bernstein in conversation with Alexander Tochilov
Start date: 7 February 2024End date: 8 February 2024More info Marta Bernstein will take you back in time to the Nineteenth Century through its overly-decorated, quirky, and extremely lively typefaces. Can we still learn anything from the past? Do we really need to preserve all those old paper artifacts? A journey through public libraries, dusty archives,…
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Social design symposium
Date: 14 March 2024More info The impact of design on our societies is undeniable. Design is everywhere, and seemingly everything has been designed. Design has often been associated with the reproduction of oppression, furthering the ends of capitalism, and contributing to the climate emergency we are facing. However, design is rooted in critical and reflective…
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Tour of St. Bride Foundation
Date: 29 February 2024More info A chance to explore our collections up close and learn about the fascinating history of print. Visit our atmospheric print workshop to see printing presses from the 18th to the 20th Century. Our workshop team, which includes journeymen and printers who worked in Fleet Street and the wider print industry,…
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Implementing circular urban systems – challenges and opportunities
Date: 6 March 2024More info Hosted in partnership between UCL’s Circularity Hub and TU Delft’s Circular Built Environment Hub, ‘The Circulars’ is a seminar series which seeks to uncover challenges to and levers for implementing circular urban systems. You are warmly invited to join a day of seminars, led by experts in circular systems from…
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St Bride Foundation Wayzgoose
Date: 28 April 2024More info Join us to celebrate all things letterpress at the annual St Bride Foundation Wayzgoose. Explore numerous stalls selling letterpress supplies, type and ornaments, paper, printed items, second-hand books and type specimens and lots more inky goodness. This is the perfect place to meet and network with the wider letterpress community.…