Event categories: Third-party event
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SEGD Academic Summit 2024
Start date: 26 June 2024End date: 27 June 2024More info A forum for trends in design education research, projects and curriculum innovation for design academics, students and researchers. This event is great for industry members as well, to reconnect and learn about new ideas evolving from current research. This event is entirely free and promotes…
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A print-maker’s view with Angela Harding
Date: 15 February 2024More info British wildlife has always inspired artist Angela Harding. She usually makes her work in a studio at the bottom of her garden which overlooks sheep fields surrounded by gentle sloping hills, spends summers with her husband on a small wooden sailboat exploring the Norfolk and Suffolk coasts and widely travels…
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Empowering women, public space and climate change
Date: 18 January 2024More info Join us for our 10th session in the series of talks, where we bring together thought leaders from UN representative organisations. In this insightful event, we’ll delve into the crucial intersectionality of climate action, public space and gender empowerment, exploring both institutional strategies and real-world projects that create positive impacts…
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An introduction to inclusive & equitable community engagement (training)
Start date: 5 March 2024End date: 7 March 2024More info Training is offered in partnership with Connect the Dots. Are you curious about how to connect public voices to decision-making processes? This mini-course is designed for practitioners currently working on or interested in leading community engagement as part of their projects (from urban planning efforts…
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Spatial inequality and the smart city
Date: 25 January 2024More info Join us for our third Public Lecture of the 2023-24 series which will offer a conceptual overview of the dilemma related to sensor location and spatial inequality, illustrated through a case study example from Newcastle upon Tyne. Much attention is given to fairness and equity in the smart city, whether…
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Le Graphisme chez Deberny et Peignot
Date: 11 March 2024More info Le Graphisme is visual communication present in all spheres of everyday life. Essentially, it is graphic design. In the case of the French design journal Arts et Métiers Graphiques, design reporting was filtered through a specific Parisian gaze. Charles Peignot, head of the typefoundry Deberny et Peignot, published AMG from 1927 to 1939. It…
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Association of Leading Visitor Attractions (ALVA) Conference
Date: 26 February 2024More info We will be holding a conference on retail at visitor attractions. Speakers and case studies include: Stacy Kissinger (National Trust), Laura Mullins (London Transport Museum), Amanda Pearlman (Southbank Centre), Sarah Sevier (V&A), James Dwyer (Lumsden), and a TBC senior figure from high street retail on learning lessons on the customer experience. Plus sessions…
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Cities Outlook 2024 online launch event
Date: 22 January 2024More info Join Centre for Cities for an in-depth look at the findings of ‘Cities Outlook 2024’ publication, our annual health check of how UK cities are performing against a wide range of indicators, including innovation, housing, skills, employment and productivity.
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Planning for equitable urban futures
Date: 16 January 2024More info A public lecture with Maimunah Mohd Sharif, Executive Director of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme on this topic.
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Urban design rethought: urgency, methodology and diffractions
Date: 19 January 2024More info This talk by Professor Matthew Carmona explores the soft powers of urban design governance as operationalised through a range of informal tools used by the public sector. It discusses findings in a new open-source book (Urban design governance, Soft powers and the European experience) which reveals how such means can…