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April 26, 2024

Exhibition launch for ‘Named after Nelson: Learning from places named after Nelson Mandela through graphic heritage’ at the Nelson Mandela Foundation in Houghton, Johannesburg.

More than 100 people attended the launch of the ‘Named after Nelson’ exhibition at the Nelson Mandela Foundation in Houghton, Johannesburg on 25 April 2024 Thanks to funding from the Higher Education Innovation Fund, Loughborough University worked with the Nelson Mandela Foundation and Tshwane University of Technology (TUT) to stage this exhibition. as project partners to stage this exhibition. The […]
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May 11, 2023

Award of the University of South Australia, SIDA Foundation and The David Roche Foundation Curatorial Research Fellowship

Dr Robert Harland, Reader in Urban Graphic Heritage in the School of Design and Creative Arts at Loughborough University, has been awarded the University of South Australia, SIDA Foundation and The David Roche Foundation Curatorial Research Fellowship. The award is made to researchers and practitioners across all disciplines that seek to shape the future of […]
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October 20, 2022

GCRF/Newton Fund award for the project Mandela place-making through graphic heritage

Mandela place-making through graphic heritage Building on the findings from the Repositioning Graphic Heritage, this award will apply the research findings in the complex and vibrant context of civic spaces that draw upon the toponymic legacy of Nelson Mandela. In collaboration with the Nelson Mandela Foundation in South Africa, the project will provide opportunity, benefits, […]
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May 27, 2022

Heritage and Memorialisation track accepted at DRS2022 Bilbao, 25 June – 3 July

“Heritage and Memorialisation” has been accepted as a track at Design Research Society International Conference 2022 in Bilbao. Heritage, Memorialisation, and Design are intrinsically linked through a concern for representation. An international peer review committee accepted three papers (from nine submitted) that present new directions for the future of design research and cultural heritage in […]
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January 23, 2022

Urbanism lead plays a central role in leading debate about Inclusive Development for Sustainable Cities at the ‘UNESCO Heritage and our sustainable future conference’, 22nd February – 2nd March 2021

In 2021, Dr Robert Harland, Urbanism lead at Loughborough University’s built environment beacon, was invited by the United Kingdom National Commission for UNESCO to chair and co-organise the ‘Inclusive and Sustainable Cities’ session at the Heritage and Our Sustainable Future: Research, Practice, Policy, and Impact 2021 UNESCO conference. His close links to the City of […]
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January 23, 2022

‘Finding urban graphic heritage’ Invited talk to members of the Sign Design Society, 25 March 2021

Dr Robert Harland was invited to present early insights from the two-year Newton Fund Repositioning Graphic Heritage project . The talk explored the relationship between graphic heritage and heritage interpretation, presentation and representation, through case studies of ‘signs’ in their urban settings. The talk covered the transition from professional design practice, depicting how a graphic […]
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