Talks
Talking about ideas is as important as writing about them. Deyan Sudjic is an experienced public speaker and broadcaster, a regular commentator on networks from the BBC to CCTV on TV, radio and podcast. He has presented Ted Talks, scripted and narrated films, delivered key note addresses on line and in person at venues from the Seoul Design Festival, to the Hay Book Festival.
Dancing with power: The architect’s dilemma
1st September 2022
Deyan Sudjic will give the Brendan Gill memorial lecture at Yale
6.30pm
Hastings Hall
Yale University
New Haven CT
USA
Upcoming Talks
Meeting of minds
17th September 2022
Deyan Sudjic is in conversation with Jony Ive as part of the Meeting of minds event
2.30pm
Institute of Mathematics
University of Oxford
Stalin’s Architect
6th October 2022
Deyan Sudjic will discuss the life and work of Boris Iofan
6pm
Het Nieuwe Instituut
25 Museum Park
3015 CB Rotterdam
Netherlands
The Future of Conviviality in a City Reshaped by the Pandemic
20 May 2021
Evenings with an Author: Deyan Sudjic
Virtual Public Event
5 January 2021: 19 h 30 - 20 h 30
“I inaugurated the Meet the Author 2021 series for the American Library in Paris in January with a virtual talk on The Language of Cities, my most recent book with Penguin. It was a chance to reflect on how we miss crowds in the age of Covid 19, to look back at the impact of previous epidemics on urbanism: from the cholera outbreaks, that killed thousands every summer in Paris in the 19th century, to the tuberculosis that drove the outdoor schooling movement in the 20th century. Now our biggest problem is that the gains we have made in making cities more liveable, during the last 20 years, are at risk since the private car has become the most formidable form of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE).”
Largest Architectural Firms in the Global Scenario
Virtual Public Event - Keynote Lecture
Feb 11–12, 2021
The conference aims to investigate the impact of the managerial organization and design expertise as key elements of architectural creativity. Since the last decades the most important architecture firms started to count hundreds of employees, having to necessarily structure themselves as real creative companies, managing the interaction between different skills – architects, structural engineers, plant engineers, furniture and product designers, graphic designers, IT experts, model-makers, accountants, legal experts etc. in order to foster their performance and remain competitive in the market. The managerial skills and the fruitful intersection of their internal different competences, can result in innovative design methodologies that will increasingly become crucial factors of the quality and competitiveness of the architecture firms.
Why Cities Can't Do Social Distancing | Footnotes with Deyan Sudjic
16 Jul 2020
Author, critic and former Design Museum director Deyan Sudjic explains why cities have developed in ways which are incompatible with our current need for social distancing - and what is being done to forge a path to a new normal.
Design museums are filling the void left by print magazines says Deyan Sudjic
19 Oct 2016
Museums are benefitting from the decline of long-form print journalism according to Design Museum director Deyan Sudjic, who spoke to Dezeen's Marcus Fairs in this talk we filmed for Molteni&C.
Dieter Rams in conversation with Deyan Sudjic
10 Jan 2017
How has the art & design industry changed London?
21 Oct 2016
We live in a world that is now predominantly urban. So how do we define the city as it evolves in the twenty-first century?
Lecture "The Language of Things"
16 Feb 2018
Designers have never limited their interests to the form of objects — they have been no less concerned with the purpose, the function of things.
California: Designing Freedom
12 Mar 2018
1960s California was the birthplace of a new, more liberal worldview: hippy counter-culture, gay rights, anti-war protests and hedonistic pursuits. But how have these ideas about freedom, which have since spread across the world, been shaped by Californian design over the past half a century?
How could we stop the future even if we wanted to?
27 Jun 2013
Do we understand where the future is going and can technology and design help us predict and come to terms with what will happen?
Design and its Critics
2 Apr 2014
Deyan Sudjic explores the many meanings of design, from the political and social, to the seductions of aesthetics and salesmanship.
Deyan talks to Zaha Hadid
26 Mar 2010
