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Zetteler
@zetteler.bsky.social
Driving positive change. Strategy and communications for the art, architecture, design and wider cultural sector.

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RIBAJ took note of Manalo & White’s ‘playful and dynamic’ approach to the converting a Bangor church into a youth theatre hub.

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MacEwen Award 2025 highly commended: Nyth, Bangor
Manalo & White has converted a Bangor church into Nyth, a new home for Welsh language theatre company Frân Wen, which has allowed it to turbocharge its social mission
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April 1, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Modus’ coverage of the push for gender equity in the built environment looked to Part W, Aoibhin McGinley of Manalo & White and Katy Marks of Citizens Design Bureau for their perspectives.
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Mapping change: celebrating the women in street names
Women have often been overlooked in the creation of the built environment, but new projects are highlighting their achievements and amplifying their voices in modern surveying practices
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March 31, 2025 at 11:35 AM
The BBC Newsround team called in at Heathlands School for deaf children to gather students’ views on Manalo & White’s new building.

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"It makes me feel really comfortable" - BBC Newsround
One of the leading schools for deaf children in the UK has a brand new classroom building designed to create a better learning environment for students.
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March 26, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Material Cultures' Summer Islam appears on the @news.architectsjournal.co.uk Climate Champions podcast: ‘We start with a map of nearby materials and products.’

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Material Cultures' Summer Islam: ‘We start with a map of nearby materials and products’
Podcast Episode · AJ Climate Champions · 26/02/2025 · 53m
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March 24, 2025 at 10:14 AM
'Don’t say it with roses’, The School of Sustainable Floristry co-founder Cissy Bullock tells Positive News.

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‘Don’t say it with roses’. The school leading a green revolution in floristry
Roses are red, violets are blue – but the duo behind The School of Sustainable Floristry want you to think green when it comes to flowers, on Valentine’s Day and beyond
www.positive.news
March 20, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Wood artist Darren Appiagyei is exhibiting intricate carved pieces which address his mother’s chronic problems with fibroids’ – The Guardian notes in its design dispatch from Collect2025
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Design news: 100 years of the photo booth, Le Creuset on the go and Welsh modernism
Meet the travel gear brand using plastic waste from the ocean and discover personal art from Collect 2025 craft fair
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March 19, 2025 at 5:19 PM
London is coming alive with things to see and do this February, including Two Temple Place's extraordinary class-focused exhibition Lives Less Ordinary:

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Things to do In London in February 2025
Discover the best things to do in London this February 2025, from art exhibitions to theatre and exclusive screenings. Plan your perfect month!
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February 10, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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Two Temple Place - def worth a visit to see Lives Less Ordinary exhibition
February 3, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Fantastic news for Feilden Fowles, who have been working on this project for the past few years.

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£4.6m project to improve world heritage site facilities given go-ahead
A £4.6 million improvement project at the Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal estate near Ripon, North Yorkshire, has been approved by county…
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February 10, 2025 at 10:42 AM
GF Smith is a much-loved British paper company and rebranding it was always going be tricky.

Creative Bloq covers @t-e-m-p-l-o.bsky.social's rebrand: "A big part of the process was simply listening – not just to the marketing team, but to the whole company"

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Paper brand GF Smith's vibrant new identity gets people talking
We chat to the creatives behind the project.
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February 4, 2025 at 11:23 AM
The ‘objectification’ of working-class life by outsiders has led to a century of ‘misrepresentation’. It’s time for a radical re-framing argues @helenbarrett.bsky.social

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‘Galleries want comfortable social realism’: Why British art has a class problem
The ‘objectification’ of working-class life by outsiders has led to a century of ‘misrepresentation’. It’s time for a radical re-framing
www.telegraph.co.uk
February 3, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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Love this so much. Paper with a smile. The new G.F Smith visual identity by Templo.

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January 29, 2025 at 4:19 PM
It's here: the TEMPLO-led GF Smith rebrand.

Thank you to @designweek.co.uk for this wonderful feature.

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TEMPLO puts a smile on GF Smith’s face
GF Smith has a long-standing relationship with the design sector. “But,” says global brand director Ben Watkinson, “the core UK market has been shrinking since 2016.” The pandemic and hybrid working…
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January 29, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Nice mention of Two Temple Place's exhibition Lives Less Ordinary in the Guardian:

'This Saturday, two works will go on show in a new exhibition, Lives Less Ordinary: Working Class Britain Re-seen, at Two Temple Place in London.'

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‘Secret Lowry’: the ex-gravedigger who painted northern life, from factory to fuggy pub
He repaired his car with Sellotape and kept his trousers up with rope. But Eric Tucker had a hidden life – painting drinkers, smokers and factory-workers without saccharine or sentiment. Now a book ce...
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January 28, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Dian Small is truly a disruptor.

Read about her plan with the London School of Architecture to remake the built environment.

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Dian Small: embracing her new role as mentor and disruptor
Dian Small speaks to Mary Richardson about her new role at the London School of Architecture and its potential to drive change for underrepresented practitioners
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January 22, 2025 at 10:00 AM
“Our aim is to cultivate an ecosystem where under-represented practices can flourish”

Dian Small speaks with Ben Flatman about launching Good Growth in Practice.

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London School of Architecture launches new programme to support under-represented practices
Fully funded one-year pilot programme will provide mentorship, business development, and practical learning opportunities
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January 21, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Across the world, societies are reverting to oligarchies. How to resist?

Words of wisdom for today from @georgemonbiot.bsky.social
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Trump and Musk have launched a new class war. In the UK, we must prepare to defend ourselves | George Monbiot
Across the world, societies are reverting to oligarchies. How to resist? Fight for democracy with all we’ve got, writes Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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January 20, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Great coverage by @ginospoc.bsky.social from @news.architectsjournal.co.uk of Good Growth in Practice, a transformative new programme for the built environment, spearheaded by Dian Small.

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‘We need a new system’: Architects invited to Good Growth in Practice scheme
The Good Growth in Practice programme, announced today (18 December), is calling for eight to 10 ind...
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January 20, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Manalo & White’s Heathlands and Nyth feature among an inspiring collection of 12 projects that make up this year’s MacEwen Award shortlist by RIBA.

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Introducing the MacEwen Award 2025 shortlist
An inspiring collection of 12 projects make up this year’s MacEwen Award shortlist, ranging from a floating events venue to a woodland retreat centred around a repurposed military parachute, but all e...
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January 17, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Is it any surprise that Giles Tettey Nartey’s work is among the best furniture for 2025?

Thank you, Wallpaper*!

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Wallpaper* Design Awards 2025: the best furniture and design objects for 2025
The Wallpaper* Design Awards 2025 present the best new furniture and interior accessories, while global design director Hugo Macdonald and head of interiors Olly Mason reveal what makes a winner
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January 16, 2025 at 5:00 PM
“Challenging long-standing inequities and misrepresentation, this exhibition... will present compelling assertions of pride, tenderness, resilience, humour and hopefulness, and moments of play, joy and rest.”

Two Temple Place’s Lives Less Ordinary in KoozArch!
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Lives Less Ordinary. Working-Class Britain Re-seen<!-- --> – KoozArch<!-- -->
Two Temple Place’s new exhibition unpacks a century of misunderstanding and misrepresentation.
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January 15, 2025 at 5:58 PM
There are 265,000 homes in England that have been vacant for over 6 months.

That’s why Action on Empty Homes joined 19 MPs and other non-profit groups in signing a letter calling for major reform.

Read about the campaign here 👇
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MPS Urge Government to Bring Back Quarter of a Million Empty Homes | News on the Block
There are 265,000 homes in England that have been vacant for over 6 months, and at the same time there are over 123,000 households who are living in expensive temporary accommodation funded through lo...
www.newsontheblock.com
January 15, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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"These fires are only the beginning of a historic reckoning that starts with the question: are fossil fuels liberating us or holding us hostage? There is a clear answer to this... in the ledgers of petroleum and automobile companies." - @johnvaillant.bsky.social
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We built our world with fire. Now heat is destroying our lives | John Vaillant
We fell in love with the power and speed that fossil fuels brought us. But the price being paid in California, and around the world, has become too high
www.theguardian.com
January 13, 2025 at 5:05 AM