Saturday, 9 November 2019 at 10:00 am – Saturday, 9 November 2019 at 5:00 pm

For the People: the Democratisation of Modernist Design

Date: Saturday 9th November 2019

Time: 10am – 5pm

Location: Leaf, 113-115 Portland Street, Manchester, M1 6DW

Tickets: Tickets for this day of talks can be purchased via The Modernist Society website

£20 regular price

£17 members and concessions

Please note that no physical ticket will be issued, instead your name will be on a list

Join The Modernist Society for a day of talks on the democratisation of modernist design. We have invited a range of speakers, from a variety of backgrounds and disciplines, to join us for a day-long series of talks looking at how modernist design has found its way into our everyday lives. From monumental concrete public sculpture through to teaspoons, from entire new towns down to litter bins, the twentieth century saw modernism go from an obscure and elitist theoretical practice into being a part of almost all our lives.

Linda King

Irish Design Modernism: Negotiating a Post-Colonial Identity.

Dominic Wilkinson

F.X. Velarde: Working with Artists.

Theo Inglis

Mid-Century magazine design and the Cultural Cold War.

Simon Phipps

Concrete Poetry: photographing post-war public art.

Dawn Pereira

Concrete too is Beautiful: How William Mitchell’s casting process humanised Post-War Urban Landscapes.

Corin Mellor

Teaspoons to Traffic Lights.

Katrina Navickas

Keep Britain Tidy: Designing the National Anti-Litter Campaign.

Rosamund West

Concrete Londoners: the LCC's sculpture and social housing.

Vicky Jolley 

Prime Movers: urban renewal through amenity dispersion in Central Lancashire New Town.

Vicky Jolley is senior lecturer at the Manchester School of Architecture.

This event is made possible due to a grant from the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art

Dr Richard Brook, Reader in Architecture at the Manchester School of Architecture is an official advisor to The Modernist Society.