All Things Urban

We are exploring a different form of campus, creating a space for emergent conversation and action based on the inquiry: How might the way we communicate in verbal and non-verbal ways start to reform our interventions on the urban landscape? “Language in the City: Re-imagining Cities through the Lens of Language” Campus is run by a partnership of 5 organisations: The Association of Collaborative Design (UK), Community Design Agency (India), The Bio-leadership Project (UK/Spain), The Landscape Institute, and the AIA Centre for Communities by Design (USA). Cities play a fundamental role in enabling exchange and interaction, not only of goods and services but people and narratives. Reimagining cities through the lens of language, we would explore how the urban landscape creates opportunities to reform cities into spaces that promote verbal and non-verbal engagement. Language, in its varying forms, can express thoughts and ideas simultaneously and cities are spaces where people naturally interact through work, leisure, travel and play. We would invite people to reimagine cities through a lens of language to discuss and share ideas on how we could communicate in verbal and non-verbal ways, to start to reform our interventions in the city. Through our campus, we aim to promote social well-being, inclusion, equality, identity, participation and learning. Our objective is to encourage people to engage in their landscape, explore language in its varying forms, and make sense of cities through a shared vocabulary that brings meaning and identity to places. We are honoured to be joined by great speakers and collaborators: - Rosanna Vitiello & Marcus Willcocks - URBAN LEXICON - Taryn Sabia - FLORIDA CENTER FOR COMMUNITY DESIGN & RESEARCH Notes: The ACD is a Partner of the World Urban Campaign, an advocacy and partnership platform coordinated by UN-Habitat. The opinions expressed by the partners of the World Urban Campaign do not purport to reflect the opinions or views of UN-Habitat. The designations employed in this publication and the presentation of material therein do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of UN-Habitat concerning the legal status of any country, area or territory or of its authorities, or concerning the delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries.

Our mission is to mainstream collaborative design across the built environment sector to democratise design, create better neighbourhoods and inspire long term stewardship. The Association of Collaborative Design (ACD) brings together a network of individuals, professionals and organisations that endorse the collaborative process of creating and managing environments with and for people and nature.