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10th – 12th June 26
10th – 12th June 26

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Wednesday 10th June

11:00am to 11:40am

Be the change you want to see

  • Dom Edwards (The Arena)
  • Lauren Archer (The Arena)
  • Free
  • Talk
  • 40 mins
  • BCU Parkside P350
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11:00am to 11:40am

Illustration as an Agent of Change

How Murals Transform Public Space and Community Identity

  • UUendy Lau (UU)
  • Free
  • Talk
  • 40 mins
  • E H Smith Design Centre
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11:00am or 2:00pm

Collage Cubed

  • Mark Murphy
  • From £18
  • Workshop
  • 120 mins
  • BCU Parkside Print Room (P209)
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11:00am to 11:40am

Making Lemonade

  • Serlina Small (Substrakt)
  • Free
  • Talk
  • 40 mins
  • The Printmakers
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12:00pm to 12:40pm

Feel the fear. Do it anyway.

  • Kevin McCaul & Emma Hetherington (Allies)
  • Free
  • Talk
  • 40 mins
  • BCU Parkside P350
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12:00pm to 12:40pm

Are we performing monkeys…or artists for real change?

  • Mohammed Ali (Artist)
  • Free
  • Talk
  • 40 mins
  • E H Smith Design Centre
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12:00pm to 12:40pm

The Shape-Shifting Generalist

Finding Your Core in a Changing Industry

  • Myungeun Kim (Buff Motion)
  • Free
  • Talk
  • 40 mins
  • The Printmakers
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2:00pm to 2:40pm

Designing the Story

  • Dan Crowe (Prose London)
  • Free
  • Talk
  • 40 mins
  • BCU Parkside P350
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2:00pm to 2:40pm

You are here is a lie: How wayfinding changes places

  • Alison Richings (Endpoint)
  • Free
  • Talk
  • 40 mins
  • E H Smith Design Centre
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2:00pm to 3:30pm

Wasting for a Change

  • Quartermasters
  • From £15
  • Workshop
  • 90 mins
  • Howells
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2:00pm to 2:40pm

Branding Worlds: Designing Awesome Brands for Videogames

  • Matt Redway (PlayStation)
  • Free
  • Talk
  • 40 mins
  • The Printmakers
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3:00pm to 3:40pm

Changing spaces with colour and light

  • Liz West
  • Free
  • Talk
  • 40 mins
  • E H Smith Design Centre
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3:00pm to 3:40pm

How Long Can Your Kashida Be?

  • Shaqa Bovand (F37 Foundry)
  • Free
  • Talk
  • 40 mins
  • BCU Parkside P350
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3:00pm to 3:40pm

Finding Clarity in a World of Change

  • Danny Miller (Human After All)
  • Free
  • Talk
  • 40 mins
  • The Printmakers
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4:00pm to 4:40pm

From Micro to Macro: Changes in Scale, Material, and Process

  • Steve Snell (Dual Works)
  • Olivia Ricketts (Dual Works)
  • Free
  • Talk
  • 40 mins
  • E H Smith Design Centre
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4:00pm to 4:40pm

Signalism

  • David Johnston (Accept & Proceed)
  • Free
  • Talk
  • 40 mins
  • BCU Parkside P350
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4:00pm to 4:40pm

Viv Greywoode Talk

  • Viv Greywoode (Stink Studios)
  • Free
  • Talk
  • 40 mins
  • The Printmakers
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7:00pm to 10:00pm

Culture Changers

  • Barrington Reeves (Too Gallus)
  • Nicholas Hulley & Nadja Lossgott (AMV BBDO)
  • Aneesh Bhoopathy (Forge Design)
  • From £15
  • Talk
  • 180 mins
  • The Giant Screen
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Thursday 11th June

11:00am or 2:00pm

Collage Cubed

  • Mark Murphy
  • From £18
  • Workshop
  • 120 mins
  • BCU Parkside Print Room (P209)
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11:00am to 11:40am

Swords Into Ploughshares: Socially-engaged craft

  • Dauvit Alexander
  • Free
  • Talk
  • 40 mins
  • E H Smith Design Centre
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11:00am to 1:30pm

Corita Kent Inspired Screen Print Workshop

  • Karoline Rerrie
  • £40
  • Workshop
  • 150 mins
  • BCU Parkside P060
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11:00am to 11:40am

No, your design doesn’t speak for itself

How to use words to sell your work

  • Sabrina Shim (Reed Words)
  • Cesca Hadland (Reed Words)
  • Free
  • Talk
  • 40 mins
  • BCU Parkside P350
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11:00am to 11:40am

Designing change in healthcare – when time is not on your side

  • Dr William Bradlow (University Hospital Birmingham)
  • Laura Smith (Unboxed)
  • Free
  • Talk
  • 40 mins
  • The Printmakers
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12:00pm to 12:40pm

Changin One’s Mind

Notes on decisions, doubt and deviations

  • Ellmer Stefan (The Pyte Foundry)
  • Free
  • Talk
  • 40 mins
  • BCU Parkside P350
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12:00pm to 12:40pm

Designing Indulgence: Taking Marshmallows from Bags to Boutiques

  • Oonagh & Jenny Simms (The Marshmallowist)
  • Free
  • Talk
  • 40 mins
  • E H Smith Design Centre
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12:00pm to 12:40pm

Mapping what lasts

  • Tudinh Duong (Made by ON)
  • Free
  • Talk
  • 40 mins
  • The Printmakers
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2:00pm to 2:40pm

Loose Change

  • Graeme McGowan (Jamhot)
  • Free
  • Talk
  • 40 mins
  • BCU Parkside P350
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2:00pm to 3:00pm

How to Make a Poster That Thinks

  • Akiko Stehrenberger
  • From £25
  • Workshop
  • 60 mins
  • BCU Parkside P132
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2:00pm to 2:40pm

Embracing change can be electrifying

  • Allister Malcolm
  • Free
  • Talk
  • 40 mins
  • E H Smith Design Centre
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2:00pm to 4:00pm

Off-Loom Weaving with Craftspace

  • Craftspace
  • From £10
  • Workshop
  • 120 mins
  • Howells
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2:00pm to 2:40pm

Techno-optimist to techno-realist

  • Papa Akuffo (Projects by IF)
  • Free
  • Talk
  • 40 mins
  • The Printmakers
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3:00pm to 3:40pm

Chris Randall Talk

  • Chris Randall (Second Home Studios)
  • Free
  • Talk
  • 40 mins
  • E H Smith Design Centre
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3:00pm to 3:40pm

The freaks shall inherit the earth

  • Sachini Imbuldeniya & Darren Smith (House of Oddities)
  • Free
  • Talk
  • 40 mins
  • BCU Parkside P350
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3:00pm to 3:40pm

Becoming the Change You Resist

  • Mayokun Ogungbola (Just Eat)
  • Free
  • Talk
  • 40 mins
  • The Printmakers
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4:00pm to 4:40pm

Make change pay

  • Simon Manchipp (SomeOne™)
  • Rich Rhodes (SomeOne™)
  • Free
  • Talk
  • 40 mins
  • BCU Parkside P350
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4:00pm to 4:40pm

Character in Motion

  • Laura Tofarides
  • Free
  • Talk
  • 40 mins
  • E H Smith Design Centre
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4:00pm to 4:40pm

Bad services: how to fix services that don’t work

  • Lou Downe (Good Services)
  • Free
  • Talk
  • 40 mins
  • The Printmakers
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5:00pm to 6:45pm

Picnic Illustrators Social
  • Free
  • 105 mins
  • Eagle & Ball
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7:00pm to 10:00pm

World Changers

  • Led By Donkeys
  • Nellie Scott (Corita Art Center)
  • Cold War Steve
  • From £15
  • Talk
  • 180 mins
  • The Giant Screen
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Friday 12th June

11:00am or 2:00pm

Collage Cubed

  • Mark Murphy
  • From £18
  • Workshop
  • 120 mins
  • BCU Parkside Print Room (P209)
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11:00am to 1:30pm

Corita Kent Inspired Screen Print Workshop

  • Karoline Rerrie
  • £40
  • Workshop
  • 150 mins
  • BCU Parkside P060
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11:00am to 11:40am

Wow! What a Ride!

Design a life you actually want to live

  • Frankie Ratford
  • Free
  • Talk
  • 40 mins
  • BCU Parkside P350
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11:00am to 11:40am

Exploring the embodied experience of drawing for staying creative

(Even if your portfolio is completely digital)

  • Amy Louise Evans
  • Free
  • Talk
  • 40 mins
  • E H Smith Design Centre
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11:00am to 11:40am

Redefining Snooker Culture for the Modern World

  • Matt Caldwell & Alice Fraser (Monday Nights)
  • Free
  • Talk
  • 40 mins
  • The Printmakers
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12:00pm to 12:40pm

Between Truth and Fiction

  • Samar Maakaroun (Pentagram)
  • Free
  • Talk
  • 40 mins
  • BCU Parkside P350
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12:00pm to 12:40pm

I Asked for This Life. So Why Does It Keep Changing Me?

  • Meg Fatharly
  • Free
  • Talk
  • 40 mins
  • E H Smith Design Centre
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12:00pm to 12:40pm

Finding My Way

  • Yukai Du
  • Free
  • Talk
  • 40 mins
  • The Printmakers
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2:00pm to 4:00pm

Making Change: Designfully handmade zine workshop

  • Mary Hemingway (Design by Women)
  • From £7
  • Workshop
  • 120 mins
  • BCU Parkside P132
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2:00pm to 2:40pm

Designed to last

  • Karen Hughes & Khadija Kapacee (EDIT Brand Studio)
  • Free
  • Talk
  • 40 mins
  • BCU Parkside P350
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2:00pm to 2:40pm

Print’s Not Dead…Again

  • Kaye Symington (Newspaper Club)
  • Free
  • Talk
  • 40 mins
  • E H Smith Design Centre
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3:00pm to 3:40pm

The Design Laundry with Baxter & Bailey

  • Matt Baxter (Baxter & Bailey)
  • Dom Bailey (Baxter & Bailey)
  • Free
  • Talk
  • 40 mins
  • BCU Parkside P350
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3:00pm to 3:40pm

Environmental responsibility: the ripple effect

The role of museums, galleries and designers to build a new best practice and empower audiences to respond to the planetary emergency.

  • Elise Foster Vander Elst (the Design Museum)
  • Free
  • Talk
  • 40 mins
  • E H Smith Design Centre
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3:00pm to 3:40pm

Type That Talks

  • Mat Voyce
  • Free
  • Talk
  • 40 mins
  • The Printmakers
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4:00pm to 4:40pm

Speaking from the heart: From publishing to performance

  • John Joseph Holt (LAW)
  • Free
  • Talk
  • 40 mins
  • BCU Parkside P350
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4:00pm to 4:40pm

Feeling Through Making

  • Jan Waterston (Artist)
  • Free
  • Talk
  • 40 mins
  • E H Smith Design Centre
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7:00pm to 10:00pm

Scene Changers

  • Akiko Stehrenberger
  • James Ortiz
  • Barrie Gower (BGFX Ltd)
  • Sarah Gower (BGFX Ltd)
  • From £15
  • Talk
  • 180 mins
  • The Giant Screen
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