Event: Healthy neighbourhoods, green streets and thriving public spaces: how the planning system should serve local communities

Monday 29th September 2025, 11am, please register for free below@ The Institute Room, Quaker Meeting House, Liverpool (22 School Lane, Liverpool, L1 3BT) – Labour Party Conference fringe event (All welcome) The design of our public spaces is crucial for meeting public health and environmental goals as well fostering community pride. But with 82% of…Continue reading Event: Healthy neighbourhoods, green streets and thriving public spaces: how the planning system should serve local communities

Event: Healthy neighbourhoods, green streets and thriving public spaces: how the planning system should serve local communities

Monday 29th September 2025, 11am, please register for free below@ The Institute Room, Quaker Meeting House, Liverpool (22 School Lane, Liverpool, L1 3BT) – Labour Party Conference fringe event (All welcome) The design of our public spaces is crucial for meeting public health and environmental goals as well fostering community pride. But with 82% of…Continue reading Event: Healthy neighbourhoods, green streets and thriving public spaces: how the planning system should serve local communities

Bristol event: When fossil capitalism met surveillance advertising 

“We have yet to invent the politics and new forms of collaborative action—this century’s equivalent of the social movements of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries that aimed to tether raw capitalism to society—that effectively assert the people’s right to a human future. And while the work of these inventions awaits us, this mobilization and…Continue reading Bristol event: When fossil capitalism met surveillance advertising 

Digital Dystopia UK tour begins, Jan 8, Sparks Bristol.

Adfree Cities’ Digital Dystopia UK tour begins in Bristol

Adfree Cities is excited to announce that Digital Dystopia, our anti-advertising digital installation, is now in residence at SPARKS Bristol until Sunday 16 February 2025, beginning a UK tour throughout 2025. Digital Dystopia is a visual art experience using reclaimed e-waste to reveal how major polluters use ads to greenwash their image. It debuted at…Continue reading Adfree Cities’ Digital Dystopia UK tour begins in Bristol

Nicola and Chloe at the Green Party Conference

Our Space not Ad Space: Adfree Cities at the Green Party Conference

Adfree Cities travelled to Manchester to host a panel at the Green Party Conference’s ‘fringe-fringe’ event, Hopeful Humanity.  Our event, which was entitled ‘Our Space not Ad Space: reclaiming public space from harmful advertising’ covered the psychological damage of advertising, the limitations of the current regulating authority, and the ways that communities can fight back against it…Continue reading Our Space not Ad Space: Adfree Cities at the Green Party Conference