Archives: Events
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Minimal cognition: brained or brainless biological intelligence
Start date: 9 June 2024End date: 13 June 2024More info The purpose of the Workshop is to look at model organisms as diverse as possible with the aim of unveiling a more comprehensive meaning of the concept of «cognition». Our motivation for this workshop stems from the need to examine cognitive evidence devoid of anthropocentric…
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Non-places, the Age of Haste and the Art of Commuting
Date: 29 February 2024 Thursday, 29 February 2024 (6pm GMT) Eva Nicholson talk Eva Nicholson’s talk was on the navigational experience of users within commuting infrastructures in London and challenges how we define and interact with them. It also addressed a bigger picture concept on how we, as a society, prioritise our space and time…
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LSE: Digital cities for humans or for profit?
Date: 18 March 2024More info How is life in digital cities changing what it means to be human? Does digitisation change cities and the lives of those inhabiting them? This event seeks to explore the politics and ethics that drive digital change in cities and the consequences of digitisation for the lives and rights of…
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Bound to impress
Date: 2 March 2024More info View a selection of books from the Norfolk Heritage Centre special collections, discover more about the creative elements to be found within their covers, and trace the development of the book from the Renaissance era onwards. In the digital era, it is easy to take the creative elements to be…
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RIBA CPD Expo 2024
Date: 7 March 2024More info RIBA CPD Expos provide a unique opportunity to stay at the forefront of industry developments by connecting you with members of RIBA’s CPD providers network at a location near you. The expos are free to attend and enable you to gain free CPD hours, enhance your personal proficiency and maintain…
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People powered places – placemaking with local and Global networks (with guest Ethan Kent)
Date: 20 February 2024More info Disconnection from each other, and from our places, is at the core of what threatens our health, happiness, and humanity. Cities fail and succeed at the scale of human interaction. How our public realm supports a full spectrum of informal to formal connection is foundational to a viable, equitable and…
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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.