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Re-imagining Manchester: Creatives Making Place

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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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How the Bauhaus changed the ’80s

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

What makes a great city?

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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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Eindhoven on the map

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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

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This is the text of the statement issued by Manchester City Council and Design Manchester on 19 October 2018
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RIBA North-West Awards: a poignant celebration

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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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Culture

Barbara Brown: the golden girl of Heal’s

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Asked about his slogan “I miss my pre-internet brain” in an interview with the FT, the artist Douglas Coupland observed: “I...
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A voice, of sorts* – the life and art of Alan Kitching

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

Tate is the star in cities show

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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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Culture

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

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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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Cities

Which way now for legible cities?

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

UK Borders: a line in the sand

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On 5 November 2008, Applied Information Group managing director Kasper de Graaf gave a presentation to the Sign Design Society about...
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Finsbury Park heritage programme concludes

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In 2019-20, 2NQ – the community non-profit co-directed by Kasper de Graaf and Malcolm Garrett – delivered People + Heritage, a programme...
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XR to creatives: “Stop toxic!”

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We’ve been mesmerized by the COVID-19 pandemic for months. New problems have become apparent, but the old ones have not gone...
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Safe Space: art for vulnerable adults in lockdown

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Safe Space, a new art workshop programme for older or vulnerable adults and carers designed “for lockdown and beyond” is launching...
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Observations in paint: “What procedures?”

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Let's get this done Copyright © 2020 Simon Poulter What procedures? July 7, 2020
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Tom Bloxham: “We are not delivering units”

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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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Cities

Exhibition brings People’s Park to life

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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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Cities

Finsbury Park heritage programme concludes

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

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Back to the future: the memory of place

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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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Cities

Exhibition brings People’s Park to life

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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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Culture

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

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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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Eindhoven on the map

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

RIBA North-West Awards: a poignant celebration

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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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Politics

UK Borders: a line in the sand

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On 5 November 2008, Applied Information Group managing director Kasper de Graaf gave a presentation to the Sign Design Society about...
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The world of elective intrusion

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Presentation delivered at a Close & Remote symposium on secure cities at Deptford Lounge in south-east London on May 9, 2013.
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Design

Manchester launches a design manifesto

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

Observations in paint: “What procedures?”

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Let's get this done Copyright © 2020 Simon Poulter What procedures? July 7, 2020
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