Kasper De Graaf

i-PLACE

Director

Speaker Biography

Director of i-PLACE and CEO of Images&Co

Kasper is a writer and consultant specialising in culture, identity and place-based innovation. He has written studies and reports on culture and place, city legibility, skills, civic design, climate action and coastal decline, and has led delivery of significant projects in cities from London to Istanbul and Nairobi to Vancouver. As a director of Design Manchester, Kasper created a local and global network of partnerships that underpinned the city’s design festival during the 2010s, producing an annual public debate on design and society, an international conference on liveable cities, and innovation initiatives on architecture, advanced materials and urban design.

Kasper is a policy consultant on parliamentary and government engagement to the 24-member group of Key Cities in England and Wales and director of the Key Cities Innovation Network of 12 universities working with the Key Cities.

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