Thursday, 23 January 2020
Site Visit (9.15-11.15)
Irish Cement Factory Castlemungret
Bus departs at 9.15, Limerick City Gallery of Art, Pery Square
All-Ireland Thesis Symposium and Workshop (11.30-5 pm), Limerick School of Art and Design, George’s Quay, Limerick
Making Research Happen Workshop (2.30-5 pm) – Narrative 4, 58 O’Connell Street
As part of ongoing discussions about architectural research in Ireland, AIARG is running a public workshop as part of this year’s conference. The Making Research Happen Workshop seeks to:
- identify the bodies that have funded research in architecture and potential sponsors of future architectural research.
- identify partnerships and networks which will support architectural research.
- identify research themes in relation to the Government Policy on Architecture and to National Research Priorities.
- agree upon a course of action to improve the architectural research eco-system on the island of Ireland.
The programme is as follows:
2.30 – 2.40: Opening Remarks: Prof. Hugh Campbell, University College Dublin
2.40 – 3.00: Research Scoping Study in Architecture 2017: Emmett Scanlon, University College Dublin
3.00 – 3.20: Irish Research Council Enterprise Partnership Scheme: Carole Pollard, TU Dublin
3.20 – 3.40: National Policy on Architecture: Dr. Nessa Roche, Senior Architectural Advisor, Department of Culture, Heritage and the Environment
3.40 – 4.00: Coffee Break
4.00 – 5.00: Discussion chaired by Prof. Hugh Campbell
If you are interested in attending please register on Eventbrite.
Conference Reception (5.30-6 pm) – The Belltable Arts Centre, 69 O’Connell Street
Keynote Lecture (6-7.30 pm) – The Belltable Arts Centre, 69 O’Connell Street
Yvonne Farrell, Grafton Architects (Dublin)
The Earth as Client
Conference Dinner (8 pm): At the Cornstore, 19 Thomas Street, Limerick
Friday, 24 January 2020
All day presentations in two parallel sessions. The titles of the individual papers and the sequence of presentations may be subject to change.
Session 1 (9.15–11am): LIFEWORLD – Limerick City Gallery of Art, Pery Square
Hala Younes (Beirut) Geography as alphabet: The experience of the terrain model and other tools
Ka-man Lam (Weimar) Environmentalism and Phenomenology as the Common Task: How may Edmund Husserl’s practical philosophy contribute to Post-sustainability approaches in Architecture
Irénée Scalbert (London) On vernacular architecture: Architecture “of the people, by the people, but not for the people” in times of environmental crisis
Session 2 (9.15–11am): CONTROLLED EXPERIENCE – Narrative 4, 58 O’Connell Street
Morgan Flynn (Limerick) Made Ground: The image of the Irish landscape as a ‘natural’ place
Sarah Mannion (Dublin) Defining ‘place’ through personification and personalisation: opportunities for representation of landscape
Eimear Tynan (Oslo) Time exposures in the Arctic: Exploring the different temporalities inherent to a site
Phoebe Brady & Sarah Doheny (Dublin) Darting Sounds and Sonic Spaces: alternative narrations of site through sound
Session 3 (11.15am–1pm): ANTHROPOGENIC FIRE – Limerick City Gallery of Art, Pery Square
Donal Lally (Dublin) Immersion: the hearth, the data centre, and dirty matter
Ruairi O’Brien (Dresden/Cairo) Sustainable futures – Light and energy: The need for re-thinking the use of artificial lighting in the built environment
Oliver Kinnane (Dublin) Architecture with the big foot that leaves such a large (unmeasured) print
Miriam Dunn & Graham Petrie (Limerick) AGE: Educating architects in the late Holocene
Session 4 (11.15am–1pm): SOCIAL ECOLOGY – Narrative 4, 58 O’Connell Street
Sarah Sheridan & Brian Ward (Dublin) Marion Mahony Griffin: Re-covering the Irishness within a trans-national identity
Jack Lehane (Cork) A Grounded Theory Approach to Understanding Participation in Live Projects Abroad
André Tavares (Porto) Fishing Architecture: tracing a complex social ecology
Zhengfeng Wang (Dublin) The Vital City and the Mechanised Space for Meat: The Shanghai Municipal Abattoir in 1933
Lunchtime Presentation (1–2.30pm) – Limerick City Gallery of Art, Pery Square
Lunchtime Presentation in association with ESB Ireland:
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Helena Fitzgerald & Rosie Webb (Limerick) “Enabling the co-creation of a future we want to live in”
Session 5 (2.30–4.15pm): DISPLACEMENT / PLACEMAKING – Limerick City Gallery of Art, Pery Square
Gul Kacmaz Erk (Belfast) Sharing the earth: Online existence of young refugees and their spaces
Mary O’Donoghue (Limerick) Not all houses are created equal: using Bourdieu concept of habitus to explore how working-class mothers understand place and home
Orla McKeever (Cork) Implicit Narratives of the City: The city as language and “repository of possibilities”
Anna Ryan (Limerick) The provocation of Kevin Barry’s City of Bohane as an environmental future for Ireland
Session 6 (2.30–4.15 pm): EMERGE / SUBMERGE – Narrative 4, 58 O’Connell Street
Michael O’Connor (Limerick & London) Never Demolish
Peter Carroll (Dublin/Limerick) Coast as Client: Rebuilding the coastal baths in Dun Laoghaire
Irene Ruiz Bazán & Chiara Occelli (Turin) Dwelling when “the” earth disappeared: The case of the submerged settlements
Carole Pollard (Dublin) Moving Mountains – Power in the Hills: the ESB, Sylvia Crowe and Andy Devane
Saturday, 25 January 2020
Site Visit (10am- 12:30)
ESB, Hydroelectric Power Station, Ardnacrusha
Bus departs at 10am, Limerick City Gallery of Art, Pery Square
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