Event categories: Past event
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Not Getting Lost In Buildings
Date: 19 September 2024 Thursday, 19 September 2024 (1pm BST) How do we find our way around the built environment? Most obviously, we follow signs and other wayfinding information. But also, buildings themselves do a great deal to support our navigation. What are they doing? How do they do it? Andrew Barker’s talk explored architectural…
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Straight Forward – How Wayfinding Works and Why Strategy Matters
Date: 11 July 2024 Thursday, 11 July (1pm BST) Wherever people gather, wayfinding can be the difference between order and chaos. It’s the unsung hero of the built environment. For wayfinding to work properly, it needs to have a strategy. Creating a wayfinding strategy means thinking about: architecture (how buildings and spaces work); graphic design;…
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Lighting the Way to Sustainable Signage
Date: 27 June 2024 Thursday, 27 June 2024 (1pm BST) A crash course seminar in sustainable signage illumination, with Applelec’s Lauren Flint. Lauren went back to basics, dispelling myths, busting the jargon and explaining the key features you need to look for in your illumination solution and what that means for your signage / wayfinding…
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Whenfinding? Accessible Wayfinding, Welcomes and Autonomy
Date: 30 May 2024 30 May 2025 (1pm BST) Alastair Somerville’s talk 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…
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Inclusive Design for Wayfinding Information
Date: 18 April 2024 Thursday, 18 April 2024 (12.30pm-5pm BST) All six symposium talks 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…
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Navigating Cities With An Inclusive Perspective
Date: 14 March 2024 14 March 2024 (1pm GMT) Nourhan Bassam talk 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…
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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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Putting the Fun Back In Functional
Date: 18 January 2024 Thursday, 18 January 2024 (1pm GMT) Urgent.Agency talk 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.…
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Why Public Space Matters
Date: 12 December 2023 Tuesday 12 December ’23 (1pm ET / 6pm GMT / 7pm CET) Setha Low talk 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…
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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) Jaap’s talk “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…