Event categories: Past event
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Whenfinding? Accessible wayfinding, welcomes and autonomy
Date: 30 May 2024 This talk, by Alastair Somerville of Acuity Design, used examples from projects for Imperial War Museum, English Heritage, National Trust, and Transport for Manchester to show how a sequence of wayfinding materials that pay attention to the active interaction of an individual’s capacities in relation to the organisation’s capabilities can help…
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Inclusive design for wayfinding information
Date: 18 April 2024 Thursday, 18 April 2024 (12.30pm-5pm BST) This symposium was sponsored by Modulex and Rivermeade. The Sign Design Society and Society of Experiential Graphic Design (London Chapter) collaborated to bring you an exciting, informative and interactive symposium with the latest thinking on inclusive design for wayfinding information. This also celebrated the publication…
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Navigating cities with an inclusive perspective
Date: 14 March 2024 14 March 2024 (1pm GMT) Nourhan Bassam, author of recently published ‘The Gendered City’, delved into the challenges faced by women and marginalised groups in urban environments, and explored the need for inclusive and gender-sensitive urban design. She presented a range of viewpoints on understanding and addressing the experiences and perspectives…
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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’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 spent in seemingly…
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Putting the fun back in functional
Date: 18 January 2024 Thursday, 18 January 2024 (1pm GMT) In this talk, Urgent.Agency’s Michaela Pihl Olsen and Rose Marie Zeynoun shone the spotlight on two aspects that often shape our understanding of wayfinding and inclusive design. Firstly, the perception gap surrounding wayfinding: how it is commonly perceived versus what it actually entails. Secondly, on…
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Why public space matters
Date: 12 December 2023 Tuesday 12 December ’23 (1pm ET / 6pm GMT / 7pm CET) Continuing our exploration of place and placemaking, Setha Low joined us to examine the importance of public space to the creation of towns and cities that flourish, and how the methodology she’s designed – Toolkit for the Ethnographic Study of…
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Other ways: complexity, dialogue, and otherness in wayfinding design
Date: 16 November 2023 Thursday 16 November 2023 (1pm GMT / 2pm CET) “New York is good for New York, Copenhagen is good for Copenhagen, it’s not good for us.” [Anthony Lopez, founder and chief creative director at Lopez Design, 27 April 2022.] Judging from recent books about wayfinding design, it may seem that the…
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Transport information design and intuitive wayfinding: two UK case studies
Date: 19 October 2023 Our hybrid event included wayfinding solution talks by Doug Rose and Sean Brereton, a preview of the new edition of the Sign Design Guide, and an informal celebration of the contributions made to the work of the Sign Design Society by three former Steering Group members. Doug Rose (FWT-London) talked to…
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Wayfinding as a social activity
Date: 21 September 2023 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 their mere presence. She presented a novel…
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Sustainable design
Date: 20 July 2023 portretfotografie This seminar explored sustainable design practice within the wayfinding industry, and how we can engage the public with environmental issues through graphics in the urban environment. As designers and manufacturers, we have a responsibility to develop innovative approaches that maximise economic, environmental and social benefits over the lifecycle of the…