Design Now – what you need to know
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Last month a national RTPI (Royal Town Planning Institute) event on the
Blue is the colour, football is the game
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This October Leicestershire and Rutland Society of Architects are hosting Leicester’s annual
What is Design Literacy?
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Urban Perspectives on Design Literacy Summer School, Loughborough University and Leicester City Council, 20–21 June
Open Streets: Georgian Leicester Sunday 28th July, 1pm-4pm, New Market Square and surrounding areas
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Open Streets’ is a new programme of family friendly events on the last Sunday afternoon
Is there such a thing as Design Literacy?
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Rob Harland from Loughborough Univesity has been banging on about this question with Leicester Urban
The Grand Tour – Thursday 6th September
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To launch the new Leicester Georgian
UPDATE: Lutyens event: limited places still available
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City Series: “From country house to Viceroys house: A journey with Sir Edwin Lutyens”
New City Series event: Edwin Lutyens Architecture of Remembrance
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CITY SERIES / 6th Dec 2017: The Architecture of the Healthy City: ADDITIONAL SPEAKER/ Sir Peter Soulsby, City Mayor to speak on the new Leicester Local Plan
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The final CITY SERIES lecture
CITY SERIES / 6th Dec 2017: The Architecture of the Healthy City: ADDITIONAL SPEAKER/ Sir Peter Soulsby, City Mayor to speak on the new Leicester Local Plan
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The final CITY SERIES lecture