Event categories: Third-party event
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The Bartlett School of Architecture: Getting lost in buildings
Date: 5 September 2024More info A day of talks addressing how we can build better buildings using the neuroscience of mental mapping to inform architects. This is a hybrid event which can be joined either in-person or online. Our increasingly complex cities contain increasingly complex buildings and navigating these can be a miserable and frustrating…
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UCL The Bartlett Autumn Show 2024
Start date: 24 September 2024End date: 6 October 2024More info Our annual postgraduate show, taking place at the start of the academic year, celebrates groundbreaking and multidisciplinary design projects from seven of the school’s forward-thinking Master’s programmes: Architectural Design MArch – exploring the frontiers of advanced architecture and design, and their convergence with science and technology. Urban Design…
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Norwich Printing Museum study day: The making of printers’ type
Date: 2 September 2024More info A study day at Norwich Printing Museum! Independent type-designer Jeremy Tankard will describe his working methods and philosophy in creating new fonts. New theories on early type-production will be discussed by Jack Norfolk and Paul Nash. Workshop tickets are £80.
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Symbol ’24: Icons for s society: past, present & future
Start date: 19 September 2024End date: 20 September 2024More info An exploration of 40 years of Symbol Culture. The conference picks up on themes explored in Cooper Hewitt’s ‘Give me a Sign: The Language of Symbols’ exhibition (taking place from May 2023 – August 2024 in New York) which shows how our love affair with symbols and…
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Introducing SignAgent Build
Date: 18 July 2024More info Join us on at 1 pm ET (12 pm CST / 6pm BST) to learn how SignAgent Build bridges the gap between sign designers, managers, sign builders, and installers. During this session, Alex Keen (Director of Customer Success, SignAgent) will demonstrate how sign designers and managers can now place orders and track production…
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RGS-IBG Annual Conference: On your bike: geographies of cycling (with Rita Martelo)
Date: 28 August 2024More info Talk by Rita Martelo, SDS member, currently doing a PhD. Talk topic: The mobility paradigm is shifting towards sustainable and greener modes of transportation, with the bicycle gaining popularity across many European cities as one of the transformative modes of urban mobility. Bicycle maps can play a crucial role in…
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TypeCon 2024
Start date: 24 July 2024End date: 27 July 2024More info TypeCon is the conference for everyone who loves type & lettering.
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AI: Threat or opportunity
Date: 10 July 2024More info Join this NLA Debate exploring AI: a threat to built environment jobs or a valuable technology improving efficiency? According to an upcoming report on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the Built Environment from Future Places Studio, the London Property Alliance, and Gardiner & Theobald, 37% of architecture and engineering tasks could…
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RGS with IBG: Annual International Conference
Start date: 27 August 2024End date: 30 August 2024More info The RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2024 will be chaired by Professor Stephen Legg (University of Nottingham, UK). The Chair’s theme for this year’s conference is Mapping. The conference will explore mapping in all its forms, in a world that is saturated with maps, from historical cartography to the…
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Herb Lubalin Lecture: Writing systems, archeology and type design
Date: 15 July 2024More info There are more than 293 writing systems in the world. All have evolved organically over time or transformed to different geographical preferences, revealing a compelling narrative of human history. Each of these writing systems is a unique testimony to the richness of cultural and writing history and poses a multifaceted…