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Date: 14 November 2025More info An evening of professional insight and portfolio feedback for graduating designers entering the next stage of their creative careers, hosted by Dotdash. This event is open to graduating design students from the 2025 cohort. This event is a chance to: Share your portfolio and receive thoughtful, constructive feedback from practicing designers.…

Start date: 19 November 2025End date: 20 November 2025More info The UK’s only dedicated lighting specification exhibition. LiGHT is the UK’s only trade show dedicated to high-end lighting specification, a must-attend event for architects, designers, engineers, and specifiers passionate about light. Held at London’s iconic Business Design Centre, this exhibition brings together over 200 top…

Date: 20 November 2025More info Rapid urbanisation has intensified concerns about how city environments shape mental health, particularly stress vulnerability. While previous research has highlighted the roles of green space and built form, the influence of street networks remains under-explored. This lecture by Dr Gu presents findings from our cross-disciplinary study Stress and Streets, which…

Date: 20 November 2025More info Artificial Intelligence (AI) is profoundly changing our cities, but many of these changes are invisible. In this lecture, we will observe how AI is transforming urban governance and city making, triggering the formation of unprecedented and risky posthuman dynamics. A “posthuman turn” can be seen in contemporary practices of anticipatory…

Date: 17 November 2025More info Dr Linda King will present this illustrated talk to coincide with the ongoing exhibition ‘Poster Boys: The Work of Kevin Scally and Brendan Foreman for the Abbey Theatre’. Curated by Dr Linda King and showcasing the Museum’s collection of Abbey Theatre posters from the 1970s-1980s, this exhibition focusses on the…

Start date: 4 November 2025End date: 6 November 2025More info Since 2011, Smart City Expo World Congress has been a catalyst for this historic transformation. As we help cities rise to meet global challenges, they’re stepping into their role as influential actors on the world stage. Here, international pioneers and passionate innovators come together to craft our urban…

Date: 3 November 2025More info A series of talks commemorating 250 years since the death of the influential printer John Baskerville.  Looking through the lens of Birmingham’s printed ephemera from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Dr David Osbaldestin will be presenting a range of interconnecting narratives told through the display typefaces and jobbing printers of…

Start date: 17 May 2026End date: 22 May 2026More info The theme of WUF13 will shine a global spotlight on the urgent need to address the global housing crisis and position housing as a driver of inclusive, resilient and sustainable urban development. Today, nearly 3 billion people face some form of housing inadequacy, with more…