Archives: Events
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Feminist spaces: redefining architecture, urban design, and the built environment
Date: 4 October 2023More info The built environment and its lack of diversity in decision-making contribute to the social and economic disparities experienced by marginalized groups like women, people with disabilities, and sexual and gender minorities. The session will cover important topics such as: access to public spaces, mobility, safety, health, representation, participation, affordability, and…
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TYPOCIRCLE: Presents Sonya Dyakova of Atelier Dyakova
Date: 28 September 2023More info Sonya reflects on her background, influences and various stages of her career as a graphic designer, creative director and founder of her London-based design studio Atelier Dyakova. She will talk through recent and some previously unpublished projects and talk about their process and challenges. She’ll touch on her ongoing search…
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Type Tuesday: Why graphic culture matters
Date: 24 October 2023More info Rick Poynor will be in conversation with Eye Editor, John L. Walters to mark the launch of his new book ‘Why Graphic Culture Matters’, a collection of 45 (publication date October ’23 by Occasional Papers).
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Teaching navigation: do we have a coherent methodology that reflects the needs of countryside recreation today?
Date: 4 October 2023More info The talk is based on a wide range of experiences, from being taught at school to being taught and teaching in the military and similarly again through mountain training and orienteering as a recipient and as a trainer. Nigel Williams hopes to take a brief look at the historical approach…
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Wayfinding as a Social Activity
Date: 21 September 2023 21 September 2023 Ruth Conroy Dalton’s talk Professor Ruth Conroy Dalton (Northumbria University) discussed the important, but greatly underexplored, topic of the social aspects of human wayfinding. Ruth highlighted the myriad ways that wayfinding is not a solitary psychological process but is influenced by the actions of other people, even by…
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Face / interface: global type design and human-computer interaction
Start date: 1 December 2023End date: 2 December 2023More info 40 years ago, Turing Award winning computer scientist Donald Knuth teamed up with MacArthur Fellow type designer Chuck Bigelow to convene “The Computer and the Hand in Type Design,” an ATypI-sponsored conference that formed part of one the world’s earliest digital typography graduate programs. In…
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ISTD event: typeface designer and creative director Shiva Nallaperumal
Date: 27 September 2023More info
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2023 IMCL conference: the ecology of place (from understanding to action)
Start date: 10 October 2023End date: 13 October 2023More info As humanity confronts multiple historic challenges, our settlements and their characteristics are set to play a central role – especially so in a time of historic rapid urbanization. Our cities, towns and suburbs are where we interact, move about, consume resources, develop and deploy our…
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Battersea Express: RCA emerging talent at London Design Festival
Start date: 18 September 2023End date: 24 September 2023More info Graduates from the RCA’s School of Design and School of Arts and Humanities will be exhibiting their works and emerging practices as part of the inaugural Battersea Design District at London Design Festival 2023. This is a cross section of emerging talent encompassing design, art,…
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Design Council: Christian Bason – expand: stretching the future by design
Date: 19 September 2023More info Join us for a talk hosted by the XCHG and Design Council, listening to Christian Bason, CEO of the Danish Design Centre, talking about his new book Expand: Stretching the Future by Design. His book makes the case for expansive thinking, touching on ideas such as increasing the scale of…