Event categories: Third-party event
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Secret Maps
Start date: 24 October 2025End date: 18 January 2026More info Step into the shadows at Secret Maps, a major new exhibition revealing the stories hidden in some of history’s most mysterious maps. Maps have always been more than just tools for navigation – in the hand of governments, groups and individuals, maps create and control knowledge.…
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Text and Textile!
Start date: 23 October 2025End date: 27 October 2025More info An exhibition by Connie Flynn. A 2025 artist in residence at Norwich Printing Museum, Connie’s work explores the relationship between common phrases and the textiles industry. The work is inspired by familiar phrases we use every day but do not always know where they actually…
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Home Ground: The Architecture of Football (exhibition)
Start date: 15 October 2025End date: 25 January 2026More info Alongside material from club and city archives across Europe, highlights in the exhibition also features works of leading contemporary architecture practices. These include Herzog and de Meuron who designed the Allianz Arena in Munich which is the first stadium in the world with a fully…
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Lubalin Lecture Series: Small Performances (The Making of Baskerville’s Typeface)
Date: 17 November 2025More info The Baskerville typeface is familiar to billions of readers and users of standard computer software across the world. However, the story behind its creation by John Baskerville (1707-75) is much less widely known. This is in spite of the fact that he was England’s foremost printer, and what he called…
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Lost Design | Purpose = Place | Art, Architecture & Our Built Environment
Date: 16 October 2025More info Featuring global scholars and practitioners in art and architecture sharing insights on how creative inquiry shapes our built environment. A virtual panel and exhibition that explores how art, architecture, and the built environment shape identity, belonging, and the human experience. Conceived in response to students and emerging architects seeking new…
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Made By All: Building a Career in Placemaking
Date: 23 October 2025More info Learn how to take your passion from public space into a profession, featuring placemaking practitioners in various stages of their career! Fifty years ago, the founders of Project for Public Spaces invented a new kind of work, driven by the belief that public spaces should be designed by the people…
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UCL Lunchtime Lecture: The Library of Lost Maps
Date: 11 November 2025More info This lecture shares the remarkable story of an overlooked map archive that reveals how maps have helped inspire some of the greatest scientific discoveries, but also led to terrible atrocities. At the heart of University College London, nestled in the centre of Bloomsbury, lies a long-forgotten map library packed with…
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Utopian Hours 2025
Start date: 17 October 2025End date: 19 October 2025More info Utopian Hours returns to Turin as Europe’s leading festival dedicated to city making and urban innovation. Three days packed with inspiration: masterclasses, talks, workshops, roundtables, and exhibitions. Recipes and case studies from around the world show how urban (and social) innovation happens — and how the…
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Celebrate Irish Design Week 2025 with Anthony Burrill at the National Print Museum
Date: 20 November 2025More info Join us for a special evening with internationally acclaimed graphic artist Anthony Burrill. Anthony Burrill is renowned for his ability to distill ideas into simple yet striking forms. Combining analogue craft with bold, optimistic messages, his work communicates with clarity and impact. Burrill frequently collaborates with forward-thinking practitioners across music, architecture, curation, education, and…
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TypoCircle Presents: Harriet Richardson – What Did You Just Say to Me?
Date: 30 October 2025More info Yeah, type is cool but have you ever typed something that truly represented you as a living, creative soul on this godforsaken lump of rock? Harriet Richardson is a London-based artist and writer whose practice spans performance, photography, and diaristic storytelling. Her work often begins with the handwritten (or hand…