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City Photowalk
Sat, Nov 7, 2:00 PMWe had a great turnout last time and would love to keep the momentum. Given that the weather is getting a bit iffy, I’m going to come up with a Plan A for the actual walk and Plan B if it literally rains on our photography parade. See you guys soon! **Photowalk Code of Conduct** Our club is a welcoming, inclusive and judgment-free space for photographers of every background and experience level. 1. Everyone is equal. Treat every member with the same respect, regardless of age, race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, gender, sexuality, disability, appearance, experience or equipment. 1. Be kind. Bullying, harassment, discrimination, intimidation, exclusion or deliberately making someone uncomfortable will not be tolerated. 1. No shaming. Never shame anyone for their photographs, ability, camera, phone, editing style, knowledge or level of experience. 1. Do not make negative comments about ability. Everyone is here to enjoy photography and develop at their own pace. Constructive feedback should only be given when someone asks for it, and it must be respectful and helpful. 1. Respect different styles. Photography is subjective. You do not have to like someone’s work, but you must respect their creative choices. 1. Help, don’t compete. Celebrate other people’s progress, share knowledge generously and make newer members feel welcome. This club is a community, not a competition. 1. Respect personal boundaries. Ask before photographing another member or sharing an identifiable photograph of them. If someone asks not to be photographed, respect that immediately. 1. Include everyone. Do not form cliques, deliberately leave people behind during walks or make anyone feel that they do not belong. 1. Take responsibility for your impact. Jokes and comments should not come at somebody else’s expense. If someone tells you that your behaviour made them uncomfortable, listen and respond respectfully. 1. Speak to an organiser if something happens. Concerns will be taken seriously and handled as fairly and discreetly as possible. Serious or repeated breaches may result in removal from the club. The basic rule: be kind, be inclusive and never make another person feel small.
London Built Environment November Property Sector Networking At The Gherkin
Tue, Nov 3, 6:00 PMIMPORTANT: PLEASE BOOK YOUR TICKET USING THE EVENTBRITE LINK London Built Environment is the Capital's only business network dedicated to professionals working within London’s property based and related industries. Our networking events are extremely relaxed and casual affairs and attended by a wide range of business sectors with everyone from developers & solicitors to architects, IFA's to estate agents... Each ticket includes two drinks (alcoholic or soft) a food buffet (including vegetarian options) and your own printed attendee sheet to take away. Join us for our November 2026 City Business Networking Reception at the World Famous Sterling Bar At The Gherkin In the Heart of The City of London in their private lounge for music, drinks, some of their fantastic food and the opportunity to talk property, make new friends and seek out fresh business leads. • No Speeches • No Membership Fees • No Sales Presentations The Gherkin is one of the most iconic architectural spots in London and the stylish Sterling Restaurant sits at its base. Food is all freshly prepared and there’s a great range of wine and drinks to accompany a meal or just to complement good conversation. The glass walled, main bar offers plenty of space and great views out onto the concourse and the impressive architecture and unique design make The Sterling a trendy spot in the centre of the City. We’ll be sampling some of their delicious menu at the event. A relaxing and productive way to end the working day and line-up meetings for the rest of the year – just don’t forget to bring your business cards... Running for over a Decade our events are a proven, cost effective and fun way to generate new business.
Visit to the William Morris Gallery at Walthamstow,including Wetlands Walk.
Fri, Nov 13, 11:00 AMThis meet up was very popular last time, Come with me an on this enjoyable meetup, we will meet at Costa Coffee at Walthamstow Central at 11 am for a hot drink, after our hot drink, we will make our way to the William Morris Gallery., where the entrance is free. ( To get to Costa Coffee, if you are getting off the Victoria Line, follow the signs for Weaver Line Liverpool Street, when you go to this platform, go through the exit barrier , when you come out, Costa is on the left.) The William Morris Gallery is a museum devoted to the life and works of William Morris, an English Arts and Crafts designer and early socialist. It is located in Walthamstow at Water House, a substantial Grade II\* listed Georgian home. The extensive grounds of the building are a public park, known as Lloyd Park. Curiously, we have come across William Morris on other Meetup walks, namely Red House in Bexleyheath and Merton Abbey Mills in Colliers Wood. Water House in Walthamstow is where William Morris lived as a teenager. After visiting the William Morris Gallery, we will get a bus to The Ferry Boat Inn for lunch. For anyone who does not wish to have lunch in the pub there is an opportunity to visit Walthamstow Wetlands, London Wildlife Trust, across the road , where there is a cafe and tables outside where you can eat your own lunch. After lunch we will have a short walk around some of Walthamstow Wetlands then walk to Tottenham Hale Station, where you can get Overground and Underground trains. £7 meet up fee on arrival {please have the right change}. If you need any more info ring or text Paul on 07530 675739 {this is not a smart pho JOIN OUR 45+ NOT GRUMPY FACEBOOK COMMUNITY <[https://www.facebook.com/45plusnotgrumpy/](https://www.facebook.com/45plusnotgrumpy/)>
The Model is the Message - a talk on ML and AI: inference, ethics and the arts
Thu, Oct 29, 6:00 PMA free 1-hour talk by Marcel Top and Tessa Edwards on creativity and exploration in Machine Learning and AI as both the instrument and subject of societal critique and reflective self-evaluation. From deepfakes and facial recognition to digital privacy, surveillance and ethics around AI and creativity. ### **About the Artists** [Marcel Top](https://www.instagram.com/marceltoptop/?hl=en "https://www.instagram.com/marceltoptop/?hl=en") is a visual artist working between Belgium and London. Top researches the topics of mass surveillance, privacy, data collection. In his practice, he layers a traditional approach to documentary research with a more experimental use of new technologies (such as facial recognition, movement analysis, and deepfakes). The artist uses these technologies to visualise and examine scenarios in which people can protect themselves and their rights by gaining knowledge and reclaiming control of surveillance tools. Top’s work has been exhibited internationally, including FOMU Antwerp, Fotofestiwal Łódź, Athens Photo Festival, Circulation(s) and PhEST. He received the Encontros da Imagem Discovery Award for *Reversed Surveillance* (2024), the Prix Médiatine (2024), Folio #3 from the Institut pour la photographie (2023), and a PhMuseum Grant exhibition award (2022). His work is held in the collections of the University of the Arts London and the Institut pour la photographie in Lille. [Tessa Edwards](https://www.instagram.com/babylon_kingkong?stkn=MTF1N2swdnZ4YTFxeg== "https://www.instagram.com/babylon_kingkong?stkn=MTF1N2swdnZ4YTFxeg==") is a creative technologist who moved from fashion into filmmaking and spatial computing before turning to machine learning. She treats ML as a material — working with its latent spaces, flaws, and logic as the medium itself. Her recent work spans deepfake analysis, psychoacoustics, and the use of steganography and hidden signals to explore perception, concealment, and the ways intelligent systems operate in dimensions beyond human reach. As an advocate for privacy and AI safety, Tessa’s work explores the ambiguities of ethical technology systems. Curated by HQI. Hosted by The Studio at White City Place.
THE BAYSWATER REVIVAL
Sat, Oct 24, 11:00 AM(pictured: PLP's 'Park Modern' overlooking Hyde Park) Bayswater’ was ‘Bayard’s Watering Place’, for horses, where the Oxford Road from London, along the north side of Hyde Park, bridged the Westbourne Brook. It has been, at times, seedy, shabby, and in places, slummy. It's isolated, on the ‘wrong side of the park’\*, and outclassed by its neighbours, posh Tyburnia and trendy Notting Hill. Today's Bayswater is the outcome of rapid, disorganised development by builder-speculators, without a master plan: a ‘furious crescendo’, ‘borrowing Nash’s stucco uniform’\*\* of residential terraces in the years leading up to WW1. Summerson says: ‘after 1850 it is rare to find any architect of good reputation designing estates’. In 1868 a steamy, smoky railway was driven through it, and after WW2 multiple streets of damaged houses on the north side were demolished to build the Tecton’s Hallfield Estate, containing 656 flats for 2,362 people. Its biggest thing was Whiteley’s Department Store, in Queensway, once equal to Selfridges or Harrods, closed in 1981, replaced by a mall in 1989, and finally by the ‘Six Senses Hotel’ last year. That was the end of its role as a shopping destination. Now Bayswater is ‘undergoing an exhilarating transformation’, ‘evolving into a vibrant new destination for London', ‘delivering highly innovative, world-class architectural projects that blend state-of-the-art engineering with historic conservation.’\*\*\* So we’re going to meet at Paddington Square, possibly London's best example of sheer unadulterated modernism, soaring above the Bakerloo Line Station at Paddington, then use the boulevards of Tyburnia, the dual-carriageways of their day, to reach Gloucester Terrace: 800m of straight, level, complete, continuous terraces, forming the boundary of Bayswater. As we turn in to Craven Road, the first thing you’ll notice is the sudden, precipitous fall in level, in the mews entrances on either side. In fact, we are walking directly above the subterranean River Westbourne, AND the tunnels of the 1868 Metropolitan Railway extension from Paddington, undertaken at the behest of Parliament, to a new station called ‘Bayswater’, 600m to the west. But Bayswater’s still full of unique features, like Kenneth Frampton’s ‘Corringham’, the UK’s only private ‘scissors-plan’ block of flats, where all the rooms are connected by short staircases: why didn’t that idea catch on? We’ll see the ‘Sham Fronts’, hiding that railway, and, for the first 40 years, its smoke and steam, in Leinster Gardens: matching exactly the 6-storey terraces on either side (except the street doors have no letterboxes). The front looks spooky, the back is positively scary. And a ‘Whispering Gallery’, better than the one in St Paul’s, in the Foster + Partners-designed ‘Six Senses Hotel’, in the 1911 building by Edwardian Baroque specialists Belcher & Joass, that was once Whiteley’s Department Store in Queensway. Between Queensway and our luncheon venue you’ll see: • Claimed as London’s 1st ‘Post-Modern’ building, CZWG’s 10 Salem Road: a very ordinary warehouse painted pink and then ‘loaded’ with symbolic and expressive features, this being the exact theory of the style. • An achingly Instagram-able street, Bark Place, of linked semi-detached cottages with arched windows, whose owners appear to have cooperated so that all the most beautiful pastel colours are used, but only once. Rather impressive. • Less than 100m apart, all completed between 1878-80, and all listed, the New West End Synagogue, the Aghia Sophia Greek Orthodox Cathedral, and St Matthew, an ‘Early English’ (a Gothic Revival style) Parish Church with a remarkable tall and slim, pinnacled spire. • A fragment of that Bayswater development inheritance, ‘back-to-front’, (one-sided) terraces, their fronts facing the backs of the next, with street trees, perhaps once intended to be part of a central garden square, planted in the narrow footways, the massive trunks now filling their full width (Ossington Street and others): one has to walk, carefully, in the road! Venue for our refreshments, ‘The Champion’ PH, at the very south-west tip of Bayswater, marks the boundary with Kensington, at the road called ‘Notting Hill Gate’, after the tollgate on the Oxford Road approaching the district called Notting Hill, a real hill whose summit was in Ladbroke Grove. After lunch, in a new feature of USW events, you are invited to pass through the security checkpoints--in place only because it is a private road--and having promised not to take any photographs, join me for a gentle bonus ‘stroll’ down the entire 800m of the Kensington Palace Gardens, with its trees at their most spectacular. It is a unique in all London, lined with 30 vast mansions, developed in the 1840’s, to fund improvements to Kensington Palace, on land formerly used for its kitchen gardens. Many are now home to embassies or ambassadors’ residences, adorned with flags and emblems. At the very end, in Palace Green, there is the house Philip Webb designed for the artist George Howard, and the one the writer W M Thackeray designed for himself, before we head to Gloucester Road Station for onward travel. Hope you can come! Andy \*’Louis Mancini’, in ‘Kind Hearts and Coronets’, 1949 \*\*Sir John Summerson, Georgian London, pp.23, 290 \*\*\* from Messrs Fenton Whelan’s site hoardings
AWS London Well-Architected User Group October Meetup!
Thu, Oct 29, 6:30 PMHi Architects, Welcome to our the 8th AWS London Well-Architected User Group Meetup!!! 🥳🥳🥳 Dragon Hall Trust, 17 Stukeley Street, London WC2B 5LT The AWS London Well-Architected Meetup is the latest chapter in the most popular AWS Meetup group globally. At each meetup we cover off various pillars of AWS best-practice in detail including insights from industry leaders that specialise in the Well-Architected Framework. We’ll be updating throughout the month with more speakers and our speakers so far this month include: * Prachi Gupta \- Sr\. Specialist Solution Architect \(Data & AI\) @ AWS \| From data lake to AI\-ready analytics: Introducing new data source with S3 Tables in Amazon Quick * Raymond Afuye \- Data Engineer @ Smarterise Integrated Services Ltd \| Maximizing Efficiency on AWS with Right\-Configuration So come join us at 6.30pm for a 7.00pm start, including drinks, snacks and friendly networking after our talks :-)
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