SouthBank IQ is a research study and consultation document by Images&Co that evaluates the potential for innovation-led growth in South London. The...

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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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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

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Professor John Benyon, criminologist and passionate educator

Document Obituaries - 8 June 2016 0

John Benyon was Professor of Political Studies at the University of Leicester from 1993 until his death on 19 May aged...

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The world of elective intrusion

Kasper de Graaf - 9 May 2013 0

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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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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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...

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UK Borders: a line in the sand

Document Features - 28 November 2008 0

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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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.

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?”

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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...

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...

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),...

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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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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...

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...

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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

“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

XR to creatives: “Stop toxic!”

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...

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....

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Observations in paint: “What procedures?”

Simon Poulter - 25 May 2020 0

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XR to creatives: “Stop toxic!”

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...

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