Friday, September 5

London City Model Talk - Delivered in BSL only

By NLA

Join Martin Glover for a fascinating British Sign Language (BSL) Model Talk focusing on selected buildings across London.

Date and time

Location

The London Centre

Guildhall 3 Aldermanbury London EC2V 7HH United Kingdom

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Highlights

30 minutes
In person

About this event

Join Martin Glover for a fascinating British Sign Language (BSL) talk focusing on selected buildings across London and their connections to the Deaf community. Through this engaging talk, Martin will highlight some locations in the city that resonate with Deaf history, experience, or cultural significance.

As a Deaf architect, Martin brings a unique perspective to the architecture and urban landscape, sharing stories and reflections that reveal how certain places relate to Deaf life in London - past and present. The tour invites audiences to consider the built environment not just in terms of design or function, but in relation to community identity and visibility.

Delivered entirely in BSL, whether you’re a Londoner or new to the city, this tour offers a fresh and meaningful way to engage with London through a Deaf lens.

Don’t miss this opportunity to explore how buildings can hold cultural and social meaning for the Deaf community in the heart of the capital.

Image credits: Tom Platinum Morley at Nottingham Contemporary

Organized by

NLA

NLA is London's built environment community, a cross-sector membership organisation for everyone committed to shaping a better city. Our 30,000+ members work across all aspects of city governance, planning, design, development, and management, spanning public and private sectors.

Guided by the New London Agenda - our best practice framework for city-making - we come together year-round to develop new collective solutions for London: forming new ideas and partnerships, enhancing lifelong skills, and empowering a more diverse workforce. Our work has global relevance and is shared with cities worldwide.

Our home - The London Centre - is a public meeting space that houses our London-wide scale models and public galleries. Together with our extensive events programmes, annual Festival, and communications channels, we engage hundreds of thousands of people annually in the future of our city, from school children and community groups to political leaders and international investors.

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