Doing the Work
Doing the Work
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Doing the Work
St Bride Foundation Design Conference
Date: Saturday 18 October 2025
Location: St Bride Foundation
Times: Registration 9.45am
Conference starts 10.30am
Conference ends 6.00pm
Conference afterparty 6.15–9.00pm
Tickets: £65, £55, £45
Please note: Ticket sales end at 5.30pm on Friday 17 October. If you would like to join us on the day and haven’t booked, please do call us to check if we have any tickets left as you may not be admitted if we have sold out.
“Doing the work” is more than a phrase – it’s a call to action. In recent years, it has come to embody the responsibility we all share to educate ourselves, to challenge inequality, and to act with intention in building a more just society.
For marginalised creatives, however, “doing the work” has always meant something more. It is the ongoing labour of breaking barriers, of creating work that is both excellent and deeply authentic, of carving out space in an industry that too often resists change.
Doing the Work at St Bride Foundation is a participatory conference dedicated to recognising and amplifying those voices. Through talks, discussions, and a collaborative workshop, we will:
• Celebrate the creative brilliance of marginalised designers.
• Confront the realities of racism and exclusion in the design industry.
• Explore pathways to build an inclusive, equitable future for all.
The day will culminate in a collective act of creation: together with our facilitators and speakers, participants will workshop ideas into a shared manifesto. Printed at St Bride Foundation’s letterpress workshop at a later date, this manifesto will stand as a permanent record of our conversations and commitments – a tool for creatives and organisations to adopt, promote, and live by.
This is an invitation to listen, to reflect, to act – and to do the work, together.
Speakers:
Carolyne Hill
Harkiran Kalsi
Kingsley Nebechi
Ricardo Eversely
Jodi Hunt
Panel discussion facilitated by The Unimistakables
Event curated by Greg Bunbury
Conference illustrator: Lana Lê
Schedule:
09.45am: Registration
10.30am: Conference Starts
10.50am: Speaker 1
11.20am: Speaker 2
11.50am: Speaker 3
12.30pm: Lunch
14.00pm: Afternoon Starts
14.05pm: Speaker 4
14.30pm: Speaker 5
15.00pm: Break
15.20pm: Speaker Round Table Discussion
16.30pm: Break
16.35pm: Speaker + Audience Discussion – designing a pledge/manifesto for inclusivity in the design world
18.15pm: Conference Ends
18.15pm: Conference After Party
21.00pm: Party Ends
A copy of our conference poster designed by Harkiran Kalsi will be given to all in-person attendees.
We would like to thank our sponsors for their generosity in supporting this event:
Territory Studio
Fenner Paper
Fleet Street Quarter
Commercial Type
If you have any access requirements, please contact events@sbf.org.uk ahead of the conference.
Organiser
Established in 1891 with a clear social and cultural purpose, St Bride Foundation is one of London’s hidden gems.
Housed in a beautiful Grade II listed Victorian building, St Bride Foundation was originally set up to serve the burgeoning print and publishing trade of nearby Fleet Street, and is now finding a new contemporary audience of designers, printmakers and typographers who come to enjoy a regular programme of design events and workshops.
Many thousands of books, printing-related periodicals and physical objects are at the heart of St Bride Library. Volumes on the history of printing, typography, newspaper design and paper-making jostle for space alongside one of the world’s largest and most significant collections of type specimens. The printed, written, carved and cast word may be found at St Bride in its myriad forms. Architectural lettering and examples of applied typography in many media, together with substantial collections of steel punches and casting matrices for metal types are also held in this eclectic collection. The Reading Room is open to visitors twice a month and on other days by appointment. Although we operate on a cost-neutral basis, it is necessary to charge for some of our services. Details are available by emailing the library team at library@sbf.org.uk.
St Bride retains many of its original features, including the baths, laundry, printing rooms and library. As part of the Foundation’s original mission to provide for the community, many of the building’s unique and characterful spaces are available to hire whether for meetings, weddings or classes.
St Bride also houses the popular Bridewell Theatre, and Bridewell Bar (once the laundry), and hosts a year-round programme of plays, comedy, music and exhibitions.
With some 65,000 visitors a year St Bride Foundation is a major London hub for the creative arts in London. We look forward to welcoming you soon.
Venue
St Bride Foundation, 14 Bride Ln, EC4Y 8EQ London
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Doing the Work
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