11:00am until 7:00pm, July 18 2024

Urbanism in Focus 3: Nelson Mandela International Day

This trilogy of linked events will explore the challenges and opportunities for urban graphic heritage interventions in places named after people. The starting point is Nelson Mandela Park in Leicester, but we will venture towards several places named after Mandela in the Gauteng Province of South Africa. The issues discussed throughout the day may be […]

5:30pm until 8:00pm, April 20 2023

Urbanism in Focus 2: City Lights and Signs - Past

This event was inspired by discussions with Nic Winter, a road, street, and tunnel lighting specialist at Thorn Lighting. Having been the inspiration, the title is adapted from Stephen Carr’s publication ‘City Signs and Lights: A Policy Study’ published in 1973 (The MIT Press), prepared for the Boston Redevelopment Authority and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

9:00am until 4:00pm, March 2 2023

Exploring Madiba’s Graphic Heritage, Workshop, 2 March 2023, Johannesburg, South Africa - Past

Together with Nelson Mandela Foundation we were able to bring together archive specialists, heritage practitioners, intellectual property and copyright professionals, documentarians, photographers, urban planners, digital designers, and graphic designers, to discuss the stewardship of Nelson Mandela’s legacy through the multitude of graphic images that represent him and communicate his values.   Invitation to heritage practitioners […]

9:00am until 8:00pm, October 12 2022

Urbanism in Focus, 12 October 2022 - Past

Urbanism in Focus was a one day event organised in collaboration with Leicester Urban Observatory and LCB Depot’s Design Season. Academics and professionals came together to share ideas and discuss Urbanism with different communities in Leicester. Four sessions were organised as follows: 9:00–11:00: Looking to learn about Leicester; 12:00–14:00: Working Lunch: Introducing food’s urban graphic […]

4:30pm until 6:00pm, June 29 2022

Heritage and Memorialisation track, DRS2022 Bilbao, 25 June – 3 July 2022 - Past

Heritage, Memorialisation, and Design are intrinsically linked through a concern for representation. In the traditional sense tangible cultural heritage reminds us, for example, of heroism, devotion, and achievement (Stroud and Henson, 2019: 288). This now extends to intangible cultural heritage and a wider consideration for materials, processes, services, experiences, environments, and storytelling. Design research has […]

10:00am until 4:00pm, September 28 2021

Bradford’s urban graphic heritage: A digital storytelling workshop, 28 September 2021 - Past

As part of the Design outreach: Utilizing graphic heritage project, Bradford UNESCO City of Film hosted an inaugural scoping study workshop to explore the relevance and importance of urban graphic heritage for local-residents, heritage practitioners, policy makers, public administrators, not-for-profit organisations, government agencies, creative designers and academic researchers. The workshop encouraged participants to look at […]

11:00am until 1:00pm, September 9 2021

New normal – International design research seminar, 9 September 2021 - Past

The New Normal – International Design Research Seminar at the Design Research Society Festival of Emergence 2021, was co-organized and hosted by the School of Design, China Academy of Art (China), with the School of Design and Creative Arts, Loughborough University (UK). The event attracted 136 participants. This seminar encouraged extensive dialogue about research fields […]

10:00am until 5:00pm, December 27 2020

Tracing Shanghai Participatory Design Workshop, 27 December 2020 - Past

Researchers from the ‘Tracing Shanghai’ project group collaborated with the Putuo Youth Cultural Center, to conduct a series of participatory design workshop activities to discover answers to these questions. The workshop extended previous research into Shanghai’s Architectural Heritage undertaken for the Tracing Shanghai project (see the short animation immediately below) and was guided by the […]

9:00am until 4:00pm, October 19 2019

Design for Heritage in Practice Workshop, 19 October 2019 - Past

‘How can participatory design approaches enhance graphic urban heritage for greater social cohesion?’ This question was the starting point for a day-long workshop organised with the Shanghai International Creative City Think Tank at the UNESCO Creative City (Shanghai) Promotion Office. The workshop was publicised through various networks, and 28 participants attended from a broad range […]

9:00am until 5:00pm, October 15 2019

Design for Heritage in Theory Symposium, 15 October 2019

Date 9:00am until 5:00pm, October 15 2019 Location Fuxin Road, College of Design and Innovation, Tongji University, Shanghai We wanted to know who, in China, might be interested in research into urban graphic heritage. Is there is such a field of research in China? If so, what subject matter might constitute urban graphic heritage? What […]

9:00am, June 17 2019 until 5:00pm, June 21 2019

Urban Perspectives on Design Literacy Summer School, 20–21 June 2019

What is design literacy? The question ‘What is design literacy?’ recently attracted the attention of practitioners and academics at a second Leicester Urban Observatory summer school held at Loughborough University and in the City of Leicester. Staged over two days, the first part took place at Loughborough, hosted by the Urbanismstrand of the institution’s internationally […]