Event categories: Third-party event

  • Geography in Practice: The Connectivity Tool – A Data-led Approach Designed to Achieve Better Spatial Outcomes

    Geography in Practice: The Connectivity Tool – A Data-led Approach Designed to Achieve Better Spatial Outcomes

    Date: 20 May 2026More info Join us for an insightful webinar with Robert Singleton, Greg Haigh and Marco Picardi from the Department for Transport (DfT), as we explore how transport and spatial planners, built environment professionals and geographers can use the DfT Connectivity Tool to unlock sustainable development opportunities and analyse the spatial connectivity of…

  • A Celebration of the Life and Work of Michael Twyman

    A Celebration of the Life and Work of Michael Twyman

    Date: 27 June 2026More info Michael’s family and the Department of Typography & Graphic Communication would like you to join us to share and remember the extraordinary breadth and reach of Michael’s research, teaching, leadership and friendship.   RSVP It is an informal event with treasures from family and departmental archives, and just a few short…

  • LSE Festival: Place Matters (Community Action for Climate and Wellbeing)

    LSE Festival: Place Matters (Community Action for Climate and Wellbeing)

    Date: 16 June 2026More info With climate politics at the national and international level so often deadlocked, could action at the community level offer a way forward? This workshop explores how local neighbourhoods can become powerful drivers of climate action and social wellbeing when top-down approaches fall short. The discussion will examine what motivates people…

  • Modulex Webinar: Seeing Wayfinding Through Human Eyes: Using Verifind to Design Better Navigation

    Modulex Webinar: Seeing Wayfinding Through Human Eyes: Using Verifind to Design Better Navigation

    Date: 7 May 2026More info Wayfinding projects involve a lot of decisions made on instinct. Verifind is Modulex’s innovative solution for changing that, bringing clarity, confidence, and data to signage projects of any size, and transforming the way teams design, specify, and deliver. By leveraging advanced eye‑tracking technology, Verifind reveals how real people actually navigate…

  • Northern Design Festival 2026

    Northern Design Festival 2026

    Start date: 13 May 2026End date: 15 May 2026More info Unifying community and opportunity for creatives in the North of England. Centred on the theme of ‘heritage’, the festival includes speakers from Sea, Wolff Olins, Studio Sana, Baxter & Bailey, plus CR’s editor Eliza Williams. From design workshops and talks to art installations, we aim…

  • Exploring Gender Sensitive & Nature Positive Cities (with May East)

    Exploring Gender Sensitive & Nature Positive Cities (with May East)

    Date: 4 June 2026More info An evening exploring urban design through a gender lens with International Urbanist and Author, May East. Join us for an inspiring and interactive evening exploring why those who shape our cities must recognise the gender imbalance and embrace a timely regenerative approach to create gender sensitive and nature positive places.…

  • Young Urbanists Present: Where Do Good Ideas Come From?

    Young Urbanists Present: Where Do Good Ideas Come From?

    Date: 6 May 2026More info As long-standing collaborators and sponsors of the Academy of Urbanism’s Young Urbanist network, Foster + Partners and Space Syntax come together for a Young Urbanists led conversation between David Nelson and Tim Stonor exploring a fundamental question: where do good ideas come from?  Reflecting on past collaborations and shared ways of working, the discussion examines the processes that…

  • Architecture on Stage: Neil Gillespie, Reiach and Hall

    Architecture on Stage: Neil Gillespie, Reiach and Hall

    Date: 26 May 2026More info In a talk entitled In Two Minds, the practice’s director Neil Gillespie turns his attention to a curated handful of Reiach and Hall’s projects that carry particular personal meaning for him. The Edinburgh-based architectural practice is among the most highly regarded in Scotland today.  Shortlisted on four occasions for the Stirling…

  • Architecture on Stage: Asli Çiçek

    Architecture on Stage: Asli Çiçek

    Date: 18 May 2026More info Aslı Çiçek joins us to discuss her practice at the intersection of architecture and scenography. Çiçek’s work focuses on scenography and exhibition design, with a particular interest in how display structures can shape the encounter between viewer and object.  Significant projects include the open-air storage for Antwerp’s public sculpture collection at…

  • Architecture on Stage: Weyell Zipse

    Architecture on Stage: Weyell Zipse

    Date: 27 April 2026More info Christian Weyell and Kai Zipse, directors of the Swiss architectural practice Weyell Zipse, present their recent work. The duo will discuss their recent work including their competition-winning design for the Guggach Primary School in Zurich (2019-2024), a three storey building planned around a foyer that acts like a flexible space that shifts with the seasons. In summer it opens fully…