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Cities

Exhibition brings People’s Park to life

Kasper de Graaf - 25 July 2019 0

Between the café and the lake right in the centre of Finsbury Park, 10 large A-frames present a preview exhibition of images...

Architecture

Tom Bloxham: “We are not delivering units”

Kasper de Graaf - 7 May 2020 0

The railway arches at Mayfield, a stone’s throw from Piccadilly Station, is what all of Manchester was like when Urban Splash...

Design

Design & society: “local community should be involved”

Document Features - 4 May 2020 0

“When they're designing things in cities, local community people should be involved, because it is we that are actually going to...

Culture

Cities

Exhibition brings People’s Park to life

Kasper de Graaf - 25 July 2019 0

Between the café and the lake right in the centre of Finsbury Park, 10 large A-frames present a preview exhibition of images...

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,...

Culture

Barbara Brown: the golden girl of Heal’s

Kasper de Graaf - 20 March 2017 0

Asked about his slogan “I miss my pre-internet brain” in an interview with the FT, the artist Douglas Coupland observed: “I...

Design

Cities

Re-imagining Manchester: Creatives Making Place

Kasper de Graaf - 2 May 2020 0

In 1957, the historian A.J.P. Taylor wrote in the New York Times that “Manchester is the only English city which can...

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...

Design

Design & society: “local community should be involved”

Document Features - 4 May 2020 0

“When they're designing things in cities, local community people should be involved, because it is we that are actually going to...

Politics

Communities

Covid-19 Threads #1: Arnav Agarwal

Mutiny Projects - 4 May 2020 0

https://vimeo.com/414228008 Covid-19 Threads is a series of short films presenting twitter posts that have appeared with...

Politics

Freedom and the far right: Europe’s bewildering dilemma

Kasper de Graaf - 11 June 2010 0

The Dutch this weekend are conducting the kind of horsetrading held up by Tory newspapers before Britain’s election last month to...

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...

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