Event categories: Third-party event

Start date: 15 May 2024End date: 18 May 2024More info The congress focus this year is restorative urbanism. The Charter calls for the restoration of existing urban centers and towns within a coherent regional structure. Recognising the complexity of this challenge, a practice of restorative urbanism heals the past harms inflicted on the built environment,…

Date: 16 May 2024More info Buro Happold’s Young Employees Forum (YEF) and BH Backstop, Buro Happold’s employee climate action group, are hosting a Climate Conference, exploring the future of the built environment, structured around three themes: Ma­terials, Nature, and Places. The event aims to inspire the next generation of built environment professionals to think beyond business-as-usual…

Date: 17 May 2024More info This year’s symposium will be looking at the role of cartographers and surveyors in creating maps, and how an examination of the work of mapmakers through the centuries can help us better understand the maps they created.

Start date: 3 June 2024End date: 7 June 2024More info TNOC Festival is part conference, part radical imagination, part retreat. Take part in a global community of urban thinkers and changemakers to build cities that are better for nature and all people by mixing art, science, and urban practice. TNOC Festival schedule.

Date: 7 May 2024More info This half-day event accompanies the publication of a special issue of the journal Planning Perspectives on ‘Olympic urbanism’ and the launch of the fourth edition of Olympic Cities, edited by John and Margaret Gold – the standard text on the changing relationship between the Olympics and their host cities. It follows…

Date: 28 May 2024More info What impact does wellbeing have on citizens’ ability to support placemaking initiatives and to participate as members of society more generally? Wellbeing can be typically defined as the state of feeling healthy and happy, so how can the journey of placemaking be a way to further support the wellbeing of…

Date: 5 April 2024More info Institutions such as museums, performing arts companies, cultural centers, parks, libraries, and other community based-organizations are uniquely positioned to support a sense of civic engagement in their community due to the fact that they are apolitical. This free workshop will focus on opportunities where your arts, culture, and recreational programming…

Date: 11 April 2024More info Justin Howes died on 21 February 2005. A good friend to the St Bride Library and the wider typographic community, in 1999 he founded the original Friends of St Bride Library with James Mosley. He was not only a distinguished scholar, whose wide-ranging research was making an important contribution to…

Start date: 16 April 2024End date: 18 April 2024More info See all 88 shortlisted projects presented to the judges live as we seek out the best buildings, projects, initiatives, developments, engagements and masterplans in a celebration of excellence in placemaking. Who will win the golden pineapple? The Pineapples awards are unique in seeking to celebrate great places where people…