Event categories: Third-party event
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Financial and CO2 budgeting in global rebrands
Date: 24 June 2024More info Learn how to effectively forecast and manage financial resources and carbon emissions on your client’s behalf during global rebranding initiatives. Discover strategies for optimising budgets, modelling CO2 emissions and reducing environmental impact by allocating sufficient resources and thought at the early stages of your project. Speakers: Erik Sørensen Ruiz, Sustainability and Global Partnership…
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Urban futures: Planning for city foresight and city visions
Date: 30 May 2024More info In an era of polarised opinions on net zero policies and how best to tackle climate change in our towns and cities, bringing people and organisations together to agree on the best pathway(s) to the future is essential. Co-produced city visions represent shared, and often desirable, expectations about our urban…
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What makes an age-friendly neighbourhood?
Date: 12 June 2024More info Engaging with the broader neighbourhood environment is a vital component of ageing well in place. However, depending on varied personal and environmental contexts, leaving the home can be far easier for some older people than others. To support ageing well in place, it is crucial that we design age friendly…
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Next-gen neighbourhoods, imagining the communities of the future …
Date: 18 June 2024More info Communities come in many forms, from isolated rural villages to sprawling urban metropolises or online global networks. With the thoughtful and creative use of interventions from mixed reality and immersive experiences to AI and avatars, virtual twins and next-gen transportation, our future will include the connected and harmonious communities we…
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Communities and design
Date: 23 May 2024More info This hybrid seminar explores the intricate relationship between community dynamics and urban design. Dr Pablo Sendra and Dr Filipa Wunderlich will lead discussions, focusing on how communities influence and are influenced by spatial planning and urban design. The seminar features three engaging talks from: Neil Onions focusing on ‘how do…
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Herb Lubalin Lecture Series: Designing type for accessibility
Date: 1 July 2024More info Typotheque worked on a largest project up to date, developing a series of fonts to be easy to read by the widest range of readers. The project identifies and addresses situations where people are excluded from using certain technologies, and worked with digitally disadvantaged communities to support marginalised languages. For…
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Herb Lubalin Lecture Series: What is realness? Freeing type from a fixed viewpoint
Date: 10 June 2024More info Can a single typeface express diverse viewpoints through its own functionality? Partners from two design studios, Polymode and XYZ Type, discuss their collaboration to bring notions of expansive personal identity into typographic form. The unexpected road to their typeface Polymode Sans began by viewing a historical type revival through a…
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University of Reading Graphic Communication Degree Show 2024: ‘Emergence’
Start date: 10 June 2024End date: 15 June 2024More info Emergence describes our transition from the explorations of study to the opportunities of professional life. It also invokes AI technologies driving change in graphic communication. What will emerge isn’t yet clear, but we’re ready to help shape the future of our field.
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University of Reading Graphic Communication Degree Show 2024: ‘Emergence’ (Private View)
Date: 6 June 2024More info Emergence describes our transition from the explorations of study to the opportunities of professional life. It also invokes AI technologies driving change in graphic communication. What will emerge isn’t yet clear, but we’re ready to help shape the future of our field.
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TRB webinar: Enhancing the airport experience with wayfinding
Date: 23 May 2024More info Modern technology is radically changing how travellers find their way to their destinations. Vehicle mounted navigation systems and smart phone applications are rapidly changing travelers’ level of comfort through the often-unfamiliar landscape and processes associated with large airport properties. Transportation Research Board (TRB) will host a webinar that will examine…