ARCHITECTURE AT THE EDGE FESTIVAL 2020

Online & Onsite 2-4 October

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BOUNDARIES

Architecture at the Edge brings you a weekend full of online lectures,
interviews, and panel discussions - all live and all free

THE ARCHITECTURE OF BOUNDARIES

 To live in the west of Ireland is to be surrounded by boundaries: hedgerows, stone walls, the coastline of the sea and the edge of our town or settlement. Boundaries define us: they put us in our place.

Look around and everywhere you will see the architectural signals that define people past and present, their place in society, and the distribution of property. We live and work within frameworks, systems and environments, physical, social and cultural, that enmesh us. Boundaries serve to provide identity and distinction through varying degrees of closure. In a country where social boundaries can often be divisive, architecture should be used to shape a built environment that is more at ease with its diversity.

AATE2020  invites you to reflect on the nature of thresholds, boundaries and borders at every scale, from the street edge to the geopolitical, from the manifest to the unstated. To consider how they are alternately devices for identity and belonging or exclusion and inequity. To build places and communities where barriers to participation are removed.  Envisioning our post-pandemic world together is key in ensuring we change for the better, not the worse. We are sharing the belief that the fields of architecture and planning have a high contribution in mitigating the next pandemic and increasing urban resilience.

Together / Apart

For the past three years Architecure at the Edge has hosted talks and tours, open doors to buildings and invited the public to engage with architecture and their built environment. We believe in the importance of critical understanding and therefore being  able to work together towards better quality in our built environment.

Our programme brings together many of the different people who make and shape the rural environment, our  towns and cities, from architects and educators, to developers and local authorities, and fundamentally the communities that live there. Our events, exhibitions, talks and festival aim to platform these different voices and empower them to create places that meet all our diverse needs as citizens.  

For AATE2020 all events will be streamed live online with a chat facility open on Zoom in order to encourage a broad audience participation. They will then be available to view online as part of a series of conversations relating to the topic, which will continue during the autumn. 

We need to ensure an open forum for those living and working in the west of Ireland to discuss and engage with architecture and urban design and in the value quality architecture brings to all our lives.

Event Highlights

Boundaries; Best Practice

Thursday 03rd December at 7:30pm

Join Xenia Adjoubei, @artaslabour , Niklas Fanelsa, Atelier Fanelsa, and Professor Andrew Clancy, Drawing Matter, architecture summer school, Somerset, for a conversation on three different international summer school models, looking at varying methods of practise, pitfalls, and pleasures.

Part of a series of conversations, hosted by Niall Maxwell from Rural Office for Architecture, where creative practitioners are invited to discuss their own practice and engagement strategies to inform how Galway may host its own summer school in 2021.

Link via https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87376224467?pwd=cmlLcHZHb3hOOG1GZHU1QnMrM090dz09