Archives: Events
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London Design Festival 2023
Start date: 16 September 2023End date: 24 September 2023More info London Design Festival celebrates and promotes our city as the design capital of the world. London Design Festival is a fantastic event which brings together designers from across the globe and demonstrates the capital’s position as a powerhouse for the creative industries. London is known…
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Ghost Signs walks: words on walls with Sam Roberts
Start date: 22 July 2023End date: 23 July 2023More info
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My Oyster: Bringing Australian Wayfinding to the World
Date: 25 May 2023 25 May 2023 (1pm-2pm BST) Michèl Verheem talk In 2006, Michèl Verheem founded ID-LAB in Melbourne, Australia. At that time, designers in Australia were creating sign systems that looked good but didn’t always function as well as hoped, and the term “wayfinding” wasn’t that widely used. ID-LAB (pun coming up) put…
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There and Back! A Super-Fast Review of the Science of Animal Navigation
Date: 20 April 2023 20 April 2023 (6pm-7pm BST) David Barrie talk Over the last two hundred years, we’ve learned an enormous amount about how our fellow creatures – large and small – travel the world. We now know a great deal about how different animals tackle the challenges of finding their way around, though…
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Making Borough Yards Happen
Date: 23 March 2023 23 March 2023 No available recording Borough Yards, winner of a Future Cities Forum Winter Award, is a mixed-use development on the western edge of Borough Market in London’s Southwark. A new space blending cathedral like railway arches, public squares, and secluded shopping ‘streets’. f.r.a. designed the wayfinding and placemaking. The…
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MoreInfo: Spotlight on a Wayfinding Design Business in Ukraine, and Tools for Teamwork and Collaboration
Date: 23 February 2023 23 February 2023 Katya Kadurina talk On the eve of the first anniversary of the invasion of Ukraine, Katya Kadurina from Studio MoreInfo to share a uniquely Ukrainian perspective on wayfinding design. Katya gave an overview of wayfinding design in Ukraine. She shared current constraints, as well as the tools for teamwork and collaborative…
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How Can Wayfinding Design and Environmental Graphics Help Make the Built Environment Safer Against Gender-Based Violence?
Date: 26 January 2023 26 January 2023 (6pm-8pm GMT) Panel discussion In this panel discussion we explored how wayfinding design and environmental graphics can improve safety for everyone in public spaces. Redesigning inclusive pictograms to consider the needs of cis, trans, and non-binary people is a start. But there is much more that we can…
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Twelve Sorts of Wayfinding Information
Date: 15 December 2022 15 December 2022 Andrew Barker talk There are only twelve sorts of wayfinding information. Twelve? Is that a lot or a little? On the one hand, it sounds really restrictive to say ‘actually there are only twelve ways you can present wayfinding information’. On the other, can you even name twelve…
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Mind friendly wayfinding – the significance of neuro-sensory context
Date: 10 November 2022 11 November 2022 Steve Maslin talk This talk comes from an inclusive design consultancy perspective and addresses the subject of mind friendly environments. Until relatively recently if you sought guidance, from an inclusive design perceptive, on matters relating to people’s neurological needs and requirements, you were usually only pointed to the…
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Navigating the National Museum, Norway
Date: 20 October 2022 20 October 2022 Alison Richings talk How do you make visiting the National Museum, Norway about more than just viewing Edvard Munch’s ‘The Scream’? This was a key question asked by the client team for the new National Museum, and one that Endpoint were tasked to address and solve. Endpoint’s Alison…