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  • From childhood needs to urban reality: strategies to engage children in urban design

    Date: 12 October 2023More info Planners, designers and policy makers tasked with creating safe urban environments need to consider how children can offer input into local challenges. Hearing from children helps to clarify priorities and contribute to design solutions. Engaging children, youth, and caregivers should be a common practice in any street transformation project. Cities that…

  • Map industry summit 2024

    Date: 11 March 2024More info 2PM-5PM: Mapping ForumA mini-conference where industry trends and the future will be discussed. There will be a keynote speaker with a Q&A session and a speed networking session. Refreshments will be provided when attendees can catch up with industry colleagues.Free to IMIA members.Venue: HarperCollins Publishers | News Building (17th Floor) 1 London…

  • How culture affects typography

    Date: 26 October 2023More info Join AIGA LA and Nikki Villagomez for a look into how culture affects typography and the decision-making process in everyday life. This is where you come in! Please send pictures that are unique to our city (manhole covers, neon signs, ghost signs, hand lettering, historic signs etc.) to Nikki (@nikki_vz or nikkivillagomez@gmail.com)…

  • IASDR 2023: life-changing design

    Start date: 9 October 2023End date: 13 October 2023More info In this post-pandemic era, humanity is at a crossroads between restoration and change. Life-Changing Design is the theme of the tenth IASDR congress, geared towards exploring the role of design in these transformation processes; and how it’s renewing and transforming itself.

  • Type@Cooper: Friedrich Neugebauer: Austria’s calligrapher, book artist, and publisher

    Date: 12 October 2023More info Please join us for a visual exploration of Neugebauer’s distinctive works, and a glimpse of his life in a small village in the Salzkammergut — Austria’s “Sound of Music” country. In a career that spanned 75 years, Friedrich Neugebauer (1911–2005) developed and refined a calligraphic style like no other. With…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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).

  • 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…

  • Wayfinding as a Social Activity

    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…