{"title": "The Health-Creating City Research Launch", "start": "2026-11-17T18:15:00Z", "end": "2026-11-17T20:15:00Z", "place": "New London Architecture", "address": "Aldermanbury, EC2V 7HH London", "price": "Members Only - Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/urbanism"], "description": "The Health-Creating City Research Launch is an evening book launch and networking event presenting New London Architecture's latest research and accompanying exhibition. NLA examines how prevention and wellbeing can be put at the heart of London's development, looking back at a decade of policy and practice to explore achievements, remaining challenges and how the built environment sector can help reduce health inequalities. The exhibition showcases projects by NLA members, from healthy buildings and pedestrianised streets to neighbourhood initiatives and city-wide greening. The launch offers the chance to explore the findings, see the exhibition first and meet colleagues across design, planning, development and health, with presentations from NLA, Shazia Hussain, CEO of the London Legacy Development Corporation, and Magali Thomson, Sustainability Lead for Placemaking & Green Infrastructure at Great Ormond Street.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-health-creating-city-research-launch-96392/", "official_url": "https://nla.london/events/the-health-creating-city-research-launch", "image": "", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-17T18:15:00Z", "end": "2026-11-17T20:15:00Z", "place": "New London Architecture", "address": "Aldermanbury, EC2V 7HH London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "The power of place: how where you live shapes your health", "start": "2026-11-06T14:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration", "address": "Myddelton Passage 1, EC1R 1AG London", "price": "free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/health", "wellness"], "description": "The power of place: how where you live shapes your health is a free interactive event open to everyone. 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Guests will speak about new development changes in the area and their effects, with recent local flooding that closed the Children's Library and the loss of mature plane trees in Holland Park among the concerns. The event will be live streamed to YouTube, Facebook and Twitter.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-built-environment-37424/", "official_url": "https://northkensingtonlibrary.org/our-library-saved-event/the-built-environment/152", "image": "https://noky.io/images/5a718205f705167b151f3b04b28dcc4af07bd9fca2e5be07794306ca42231359-1200.webp"}, {"title": "The London Model Talk", "start": "2026-11-06T12:30:00Z", "end": "2026-11-06T13:00:00Z", "place": "The London Centre", "address": "", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/local-history", "society/urbanism"], "description": "The London Model Talk is a free 30-minute lunchtime talk at The London Centre, using NLA's scale models of London to explore how the city has grown and what could shape it next. 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The 16.5-metre 1:2000 London model covers over 247 square kilometres, 22 boroughs and more than 266,000 buildings, alongside a 1:500 City Model showing the future of the Square Mile's skyline.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-london-model-talk-48052/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/bc758ddfd8ffa987d13fa4f61399ac176c844acbc6695e6ca6f1c782a970dfeb-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Circularity in Practice", "start": "2026-11-17T08:30:00Z", "end": "2026-11-17T10:30:00Z", "place": "New London Architecture", "address": "Aldermanbury, EC2V 7HH London", "price": "Members Only - Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/sustainability/circular-economy", "diy/architecture"], "description": "A morning talk on turning circular economy ambitions into practical outcomes in construction. TECHNAL and the project team behind Princes Exchange discuss the role of early engagement in delivering more sustainable, future-ready buildings. Using Princes Exchange as a live case study, a panel explores how supply chain collaboration shaped design decisions, material efficiency and long-term adaptability. 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This session will focus on children and young people with autism and neurodevelopmental needs. It is part of a series organised by the Mohn Centre for Children's Health and Wellbeing at Imperial College London, with speakers Shraddha Sunil, Ramzi Nasir and Rakhee Shah. 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The museum has co-curated the exhibition with industry leaders in the healthcare design field, and it shines a light on global examples of healing spaces past, present and future. Through storytelling, interactive installations and voices from around the world, it illuminates the essential link between care and place.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/healing-spaces-98013/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/a6308bab885ab15b46f58ebc768758929ce2457e76ee022949653adc8c0eae67-2000.webp"}, {"title": "PEX 100: A Place to Belong", "start": "2026-11-19T12:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-19T18:00:00Z", "place": "Copeland Gallery", "address": "Copeland Road 133, SE15 3SN London", "price": "FREE", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/contemporary", "history/social-history"], "description": "An exhibition marking one hundred years since the Peckham Experiment, exploring what it means to be truly healthy. In 1926, doctors Innes Hope Pearse and George Scott Williamson began a radical experiment in Peckham, growing from a small family club on Queen's Road into the purpose-built Pioneer Centre, where local families came for health overhauls as well as to swim, dance, eat, learn, play and organise activities of their own. Designed and curated by the Pex creative team of Nina Farrell, Asa Medhurst, Dan Liston and Stephen Hardingham, the exhibition brings together archive photographs, films, documents, objects and the voices of former members alongside contemporary art by featured artists including Heretic Spectral Nation, Maxim Medurst, Dr Jini Rawlings, Gavin Renz, Ilona Sager, Sean Thornhill, Priscilla Watkins, Richard Waterhouse, William Waterhouse, Tisna Westerhof. It forms part of The Peckham Experiment at 100, a centenary programme of films, archive work, tours, creative projects and public conversations.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/pex-100-a-place-to-belong-69702/", "official_url": "https://www.copelandpark.com/events/40822/pex-100-a-place-to-belong/?t=40827", "image": "https://noky.io/images/000f618a20ec7c9062bee79b94f6e147c7e02735a588689e1ce8249a08cd3d1a-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Against fire and ICE: the lifehouse as community defence", "start": "2026-11-12T18:30:00Z", "end": "2026-11-12T20:00:00Z", "place": "London School of Economics and Political Science", "address": "Houghton Street, WC2A 2AE London", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["nature/climate", "society/activism"], "description": "An in-person public lecture at LSE's Thai Theatre in the Cheng Kin Ku Building, examining how communities can prepare for interlocking crises such as climate emergency and authoritarian rule. It is hosted by LSE's Department of Sociology and chaired by Dr David Madden, with Adam Greenfield speaking and Gargi Bhattacharyya and Dubravka Sekulić as discussants. The talk explores the idea of the lifehouse: how measures that defend a neighbourhood against climate collapse, like cooling rooms and communications networks, can also help it survive hostile authorities, and how such collective capacity can be made durable. It runs from 6.30pm to 8pm.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/against-fire-and-ice-the-lifehouse-as-community-defence-131230/", "official_url": "https://www.lse.ac.uk/sociology/events/2026/fire-and-ice", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f0c5e2a165b111b16d3daafa0663e0613ddfb68f15ded851ee9d00283e44e7ae-600.webp"}]}