Event categories: Third-party event
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St. Bride Foundation: The Beatrice Warde Memorial Lecture – Adventures in episodic type design
Date: 17 October 2024More info Seven years ago, David Jonathan Ross decided to stop releasing fonts the old fashioned way, and started emailing a new font out to his friends and colleagues each and every month. He is the first to admit that a Font of the Month Club is a goofy and impractical idea,…
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Inclusive design: creating fair, safe, healthy places
Date: 3 September 2024More info This event will explore how we can create a built environment where everyone, regardless of their economic circumstances, gender, ethnicity, age, sexual identity, physical ability, nationality or religion, can participate fully in all available opportunities, activities and more in order to make ensure economic, social, health and physical equality along…
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Accelerating towards a net zero built environment
Date: 4 September 2024More info Join us for an enlightening journey into the world of sustainable construction at Accelerating towards a Net Zero Built Environment, where industry experts will gather to explore groundbreaking innovations and strategies reshaping the industry. This dynamic event is dedicated to unravelling the complexities of decarbonisation, including how we can address…
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Placemaking Week Europe 2024
Start date: 24 September 2024End date: 27 September 2024More info Every year at Placemaking Week Europe, placemakers from around the world come together each year in a new host city to present expertise and ideas, share projects, discuss placemaking strategies and methodology, and work together with city municipalities to launch new placemaking initiatives in-situ. It…
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Co-design opportunities in heritage interpretation and placemaking
Date: 18 July 2024More info This session will share various strategies for interdisciplinary collaboration between creative industry practitioners, heritage professionals, archival specialists, policymakers, and urban planners. Drawing from their work in Graphic Heritage, the session will be led by Dr Robert Harland and Dr Yolandi Burger from Loughborough University. They will recount the early exploratory phase of the ‘Named after Nelson:…
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How to read a tree (with Tristan Gooley)
Date: 28 June 2024More info Join award-winning author Tristan Gooley at Piccadilly, as we celebrate his latest enlightening publication, How to Read a Tree.From the author of How to Read Water comes an accessible and illuminating guide to understanding the rich variety of trees through the hidden shapes and patterns that most people miss. Tristan will be delivering…
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Exhibition: Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr.: Citizen Printer
Start date: 29 June 2024End date: 31 January 2025More info The major solo exhibition features over 150 type-driven artifacts from the self-described “humble negro printer”. Through the use of bold language, graphic typography, and colorful layers, Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr.’s prints embody an intensity that catches the eye and provokes the mind. He is extremely…
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Made By All: How to engage communities in climate adaptation
Date: 11 July 2024More info Thoughtful and inclusive community engagement can be challenging in any democratic planning process or placemaking project, but the increasingly urgent need to adapt our built environment to respond to the climate crisis can further complicate things. While many communities may support the idea of climate impact mitigation efforts, adaptation can…
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Museums + Heritage Show 2025
Start date: 14 May 2025End date: 15 May 2025More info For more than 30 years, the Museums + Heritage Show has been bringing together the entire sector, enabling knowledge sharing and vital networking across all disciplines. There will be two jam-packed days featuring more than 70 talks, 90 speakers, 150 exhibitors, masterclasses, demos, networking sessions, recruitment advice, digital clinics,…
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Women and planning: from theory to practice
Date: 1 July 2024More info The ways in which we can better consider the needs of women and girls when planning our towns and cities is a subject that has been gathering increasing interest both in planning academia and practice. Questions are being asked as to what planning can do to make practice more inclusive,…