Kasper de Graaf
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Kasper is a writer and producer with wide experience of innovation in cities, industry and institutions. He has delivered innovation schemes in Vancouver,
Istanbul, London, Manchester, Glasgow and numerous other cities. Kasper led the South Bank IQ research study about innovation in South London and co-authored the study ‘Creating a Manchester Design Manifesto’ with Lou Cordwell. He is a director of the design group Images&Co and the arts and culture organisation 2NQ, a steering board Member of the UK Design Action Plan (designactionplan.org) and vice-chair of the Finsbury Park Trust. He has produced Design Manchester’s annual public debate about design and society since 2014 and chaired it since 2018. [Photo: Jake Bernard]
Finsbury Park heritage programme concludes
In 2019-20, 2NQ – the community non-profit co-directed by Kasper de Graaf and Malcolm Garrett – delivered People + Heritage, a programme...
Tom Bloxham: “We are not delivering units”
The railway arches at Mayfield, a stone’s throw from Piccadilly Station, is what all of Manchester was like when Urban Splash...
People and heritage
In 2019 – Finsbury Park’s 150th anniversary year – we celebrated with a programme of events including #Everything150, a contemporary archaeology...
Re-imagining Manchester: Creatives Making Place
In 1957, the historian A.J.P. Taylor wrote in the New York Times that “Manchester is the only English city which can...
How the Bauhaus changed the ’80s
The first ever creative collaboration between Kasper de Graaf and Malcolm Garrett – the October 1981 edition of New Sounds New...
Exhibition brings People’s Park to life
Between the café and the lake right in the centre of Finsbury Park, 10 large A-frames present a preview exhibition of images...
What makes a great city?
On 9 July 2019, I had the pleasure of chairing a panel and audience discussion at a well attended Manchester International Festival...
Northern Powerhouse Mk. III
The Northern Powerhouse Mk III is just around the corner, but how will it compare with its predecessors?
The...
Eindhoven on the map
How a city’s commitment to design has shaped its image on the international stage
On Wednesday 24 October, Tottenham...
RIBA North-West Awards: a poignant celebration
In these days immediately following the mindless attack at Manchester Arena, it is impossible to write about anything Mancunian except in...
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Safe Space: art for vulnerable adults in lockdown
Safe Space, a new art workshop programme for older or vulnerable adults and carers designed “for lockdown and beyond” is launching...
Observations in paint: “What procedures?”
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What procedures? July 7, 2020