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Finsbury Park heritage programme concludes

Kasper de Graaf - 10 October 2020

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Tom Bloxham: “We are not delivering units”

Kasper de Graaf - 7 May 2020

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Back to the future: the memory of place

Thea Behrman - 7 May 2020

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Design & society: “local community should be involved”

Document Features - 4 May 2020

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South London: the new hotspot?

Document Research - 2 May 2020

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People and heritage

Kasper de Graaf - 2 May 2020 0

In 2019 – Finsbury Park’s 150th anniversary year – we celebrated with a programme of events including #Everything150, a contemporary archaeology...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Northern Powerhouse Mk. III

Kasper de Graaf - 29 June 2019 0

The Northern Powerhouse Mk III is just around the corner, but how will it compare with its predecessors? The...

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Eindhoven on the map

Kasper de Graaf - 5 November 2018 0

How a city’s commitment to design has shaped its image on the international stage On Wednesday 24 October, Tottenham...

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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

Architecture

RIBA North-West Awards: a poignant celebration

Kasper de Graaf - 25 May 2017 0

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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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,...

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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),...

Finsbury Park heritage programme concludes

Cities Kasper de Graaf - 10 October 2020 0

In 2019-20, 2NQ – the community non-profit co-directed by Kasper de Graaf and Malcolm Garrett – delivered People + Heritage, a programme...

XR to creatives: “Stop toxic!”

Design Extinction Rebellion Art Group - 10 July 2020 0

We’ve been mesmerized by the COVID-19 pandemic for months. New problems have become apparent, but the old ones have not gone...

Safe Space: art for vulnerable adults in lockdown

Communities Document News - 25 May 2020 0

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?”

Politics Simon Poulter - 25 May 2020 0

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Eindhoven on the map

Kasper de Graaf - 5 November 2018 0

How a city’s commitment to design has shaped its image on the international stage On Wednesday 24 October, Tottenham...

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

RIBA North-West Awards: a poignant celebration

Kasper de Graaf - 25 May 2017 0

In these days immediately following the mindless attack at Manchester Arena, it is impossible to write about anything Mancunian except in...

Culture

Back to the future: the memory of place

Thea Behrman - 7 May 2020 0

These personal reflections on cultural regeneration, place and memory expand on a presentation Thea made at Design Manchester's Liveable Cities conference...

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How the Bauhaus changed the ’80s

Kasper de Graaf - 2 May 2020 0

The first ever creative collaboration between Kasper de Graaf and Malcolm Garrett – the October 1981 edition of New Sounds New...

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“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...

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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.

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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...

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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...

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Covid-19 Threads #3: Dominic Minghella

Mutiny Projects - 12 May 2020 0

https://vimeo.com/417007603 Covid-19 Threads is a series of short films presenting twitter posts that have appeared with...

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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

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.

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