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Cities

Manchester launches a design manifesto

Document Research - 19 October 2018 0

This is the text of the statement issued by Manchester City Council and Design Manchester on 19 October 2018

Cities

Which way now for legible cities?

Kasper de Graaf - 17 October 2011 0

Building on the vision of Kevin Lynch, who formulated the legible city concept in The Image of The City (Harvard/MIT, 1960),...

Cities

What makes a great city?

Kasper de Graaf - 19 July 2019 0

On 9 July 2019, I had the pleasure of chairing a panel and audience discussion at a well attended Manchester International Festival...

Culture

Coming : Being : Going. The Michael Clark Company IG Takeover

Malcolm Garrett - 11 May 2020 0

On 4 and 5 May, the designer Malcolm Garrett was invited to take over the Michael Clark Company Instagram account to...

Design

A voice, of sorts* – the life and art of Alan Kitching

Kasper de Graaf - 17 February 2017 0

The sound of Celia Stothard fills the room at 19 Cleaver Street in Kennington, transporting me to years precociously spent in...

Culture

Tate is the star in cities show

Kasper de Graaf - 16 June 2016 0

Living Cities, a display of works from the Collection in the George Economou Gallery on level 4 of The Switch House,...

Design

A voice, of sorts* – the life and art of Alan Kitching

Kasper de Graaf - 17 February 2017 0

The sound of Celia Stothard fills the room at 19 Cleaver Street in Kennington, transporting me to years precociously spent in...

Culture

“I did it any way”: what punk taught me

Malcolm Garrett - 25 February 2016 0

Punk sprang up all around me in Manchester, seemingly in answer to questions I was already beginning to pose in early...

Politics

Cost recovery and open data in the UK

Kasper de Graaf - 14 May 2008 0

This paper was written to introduce the Policy Seminar on Public Mapping Data of the Institute of Urban Information.

Politics

Communities

Covid-19 Threads #2: Drew Penkala

Mutiny Projects - 7 May 2020 0

https://vimeo.com/416094320 Covid-19 Threads is a series of short films presenting twitter posts that have appeared with...

Politics

Ivo Peart: “Cummings and goings in Downing Street”

Ivo Peart - 24 May 2020 0

Political writer Ivo Peart reviews strange goings-on at the heart of government in the first of his new columns for DOCUMENT....

People

Raj Loomba: the widows’ voice

Kasper de Graaf - 3 March 2011 0

The lot of a widow is shocking in many parts of the world, the sorrow of losing her husband compounded by...

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