Oh my! Was NOT expecting this! Prolific North 🙏🙏🙏

Can't quite believe that we've won the Prolific North culture campaign of the year award. A huge effort from everyone in the LEEDS 2023 marcomms team and our agency friends- we worked so darn hard so it's lovely for the work to be recognised. 🏆

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OMG we won! Prolific North LEEDS 2023 😍
So chuffed!

“Incredibly, almost 2/3rds of all the waste generated by the entire country [UK] is produced by the construction industry.” (Thomas Heatherwick) #Humanise humanise.org

Good luck to all shortlisted entries to Prolific North awards this evening - really proud LEEDS 2023 is up for one for #marketing campaign of the year + I’m among great company in Leader of the Year category. Sadly can’t be there due to GCSEs 😬prolificnorth.co.uk/news/the-proli…

Solidarity to all parents embarking upon GCSEs this week - esp those with 16 y old sons 😬🙈😭 #passthegin

One of the most beautiful - and it is beautiful - books I have read in a long time has been #Humanise from Thomas Heatherwick. I will be sharing some of my favourite passages but no substitute for getting the book & joining the movement: humanise.org.

“If you want to design a building that will be attractive to most human beings, repetition & complexity are vital tools.” (Thomas Heatherwick) #Humanise humanise.org

“Given that there are virtually no straight lines and right angles in nature, they are also astonishingly unnatural.” (Thomas Heatherwick) #Humanise humanise.org

Amazing news for the #creative industries!

🚨Final free tickets released to hear Thomas Heatherwick talk about our 10 year campaign to create better + more human cities Howard Assembly Room a UKREiiF Fringe Event in partnership with Leeds Society of Architects and Citu with responses from Tom Riordan Sharon Watson MBE, DL + Jonathan Wilson

This year's UKREiiF (21-23 May) is expecting to attract 12,000 delegates compared to 7,500 last year and 4,000 in the Leeds show's first year of operation, says director Nathan Spencer.
No wonder hotel bookings were so tricky...

From #Australia interesting piece on the homogenous nature of new office buildings - which Thomas Heatherwick had described as a “Blandemic”
👇 architectureanddesign.com.au/features/comme…

It’s time for a conversation abt how buildings make us feel. The latest humanise.org mailer is out featuring thoughts from Alex Ely Mæ, maia lemlij from XUL Architecture + from the US Alexander Buckeridge Snarkitecture
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Don't get down about the world, people are doing some amazing things out there. Check out the shortlist for this year's SMK National Campaigner Awards. Full of inspo. I've loved being a judge. Winners announced on 15 May.

It's raining Labour mayors!

This one will be insomnia-inducing for the Conservatives

Woooah!! My part of #NorthYorkshire has turned RED! #Devolution bringing change !
Finally! 🌹David Skaith
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