Event categories: Third-party event

  • Confessions: Who Gets to Shape Our Cities?

    Confessions: Who Gets to Shape Our Cities?

    Date: 29 October 2026More info Who gets to decide what gets built, what gets protected and whose voices are heard? Planning is where some of the biggest questions facing the built environment become real: what gets built, what gets protected, who gets heard, what is prioritised, and how decisions are made in the public interest.…

  • Herb Lubalin Lecture Series: Carving shapes – Lyons Letterforms, from Stone to Digital

    Herb Lubalin Lecture Series: Carving shapes – Lyons Letterforms, from Stone to Digital

    Date: 26 October 2026More info The city of Lyon, in south-eastern France, is home to many carved inscriptions, dating back to its foundation by the Romans in 43 BCE. Living among them, a type designer can hardly remain untouched by these letterforms. This was as true in 1846 as it is today, when Louis Perrin…

  • Exhibition: Full Disclosure, The Edge of Information Design

    Exhibition: Full Disclosure, The Edge of Information Design

    Start date: 27 September 2026End date: 13 June 2027More info  MoMA’s first devoted entirely to information design, Full Disclosure features 30 works of digital and analogue information design, including six newly acquired works. This exhibition will explore the many ways in which humans visualise information and how designers, operating in an increasingly complex digital world,…

  • Avant-Garde: Graphic Design on the Rise

    Avant-Garde: Graphic Design on the Rise

    Start date: 22 October 2026End date: 21 February 2027More info Avant-garde applied art in the interwar period was dominated by graphic design, photography, and typography. Progressive art movements left an indelible mark on the emerging modern mass media. Graphic design became a mirror of sociopolitical utopias and formal innovation. This called for new ways of…

  • Exhibition: Juvenilia, 100 Years of Typography and Books at La Cambre

    Exhibition: Juvenilia, 100 Years of Typography and Books at La Cambre

    Start date: 16 October 2026End date: 14 February 2027More info CelebratIng the centenary of the renowned Brussels art and design school through a landmark exhibition at the Wittockiana Museum. Bringing together a century of student work, the exhibition explores La Cambre’s enduring legacy in typography, graphic design, bookbinding and the printed arts. Featuring posters, books,…

  • Island Ambiences: For an Experiential and Sensorial Approach to Spaces

    Island Ambiences: For an Experiential and Sensorial Approach to Spaces

    Start date: 17 November 2026End date: 20 November 2026More info Building on our previous colloquia on water-related issues and coastal transitions, this third edition of the CEDTI Colloquium turns its attention to the ambiances that mediate the relationship between land, sea, and human experience through the built environment. As climate crises intensify, coastlines erode, and…

  • Exhibition: Make It Make Sense

    Exhibition: Make It Make Sense

    Start date: 16 October 2026End date: 29 November 2026More info Around 70 projects from 28 German universities were selected for the exhibition at Die Neue Sammlung – The Design Museum. The exhibition brings together work from product and industrial design, communication and digital design, as well as textile and fashion design. In all their diversity,…

  • Exhibition: Under Development (What Happens When Cities Change?)

    Exhibition: Under Development (What Happens When Cities Change?)

    Start date: 17 October 2026End date: 28 November 2026More info This exhibition brings together more than fifty years of documentary photography from Tyneside and East London. The exhibition draws on the AmberSide Collection and Four Corners Archive to trace the human consequences of decisions about housing, planning and who gets to shape the places we…

  • Festival de La Peinture en Lettres

    Festival de La Peinture en Lettres

    Start date: 18 September 2026End date: 19 December 2026More info To mark the publication of Letter Painting: History & Revival on 11 September 2026 (Éditions L’échappée, “Action Graphique” series), we have put together an extensive programme of events. Walks, talks, panel discussions, film screenings and more will offer an opportunity to discover the rich, captivating…

  • Co-producing Publics: Questioning, Performative Acts, and Temporary Interventions

    Co-producing Publics: Questioning, Performative Acts, and Temporary Interventions

    Date: 7 November 2026More info A workshop exploring how publics can be co-produced, shaped, and designed. Drawing from the artistic-mediating practices of circuit sessions and Eva Chen, in this workshop, we will collectively explore how publics can be co-produced, shaped, and designed. We understand publics as a multifaceted concept that is not simply given, but…