Ockham Lecture

Matthew Galloway's lecture explores the world as a designed landscape—the idea that nearly every site, system and surface we interact with has been designed, manufactured, and made manifest through human thought and conceptualisation. He asks: what thoughts, worldviews, and ways of seeing dominate the designed landscape around us, and what does it mean to interrogate the world through this lens?

Following the lecture, the team behind The National Grid #10 will speak briefly before a toast celebrates the launch of this issue, which examines graphic design's invisible influence across culture, society, politics and history—featuring contributions on conspiracy theories, activism, hostile architecture, Māori printing presses and Tongan design practices.