Remapping Places:
Imagining our Past, Present and Future   

Symposium

Date/ Time  5 October 2023, 6.00 pm -7:30pm

Location Mick Lally Theatre, Druid Lane.

This event is FREE and open to the public. There is no booking required, but as places are limited it is advised.

About

To re-map is to engage with landscapes, cities and places in new ways. It can uncover hidden pasts and bring to light emerging connections. Re-mapping can involve a range of activities and mediums including digital and audio technologies, artistic interventions, working practices and much more. It allows us to critically engage with our surroundings, identifying present concerns as well as articulating hopes for the future.

Hosted by UrbanLab Galway, Eugen McKeown, Marcos Dias and Oliver Dawkins discuss the importance of remapping practices among delivery drivers in Dublin, the use of gaming technologies to analyse the built environment and the ways in which we can engage with ecological spaces through sound. Taking place at the Mick Lally Theatre on Druid Lane, the symposium combines reflections on landscape, urban space and everyday life to provoke discussion on how re-mapping can shape the world around us.

Event Organiser

UrbanLab Galway

Marcos Dias, Dublin City University

Marcos Dias is an Assistant Professor and Programme Chair of the BSc in Multimedia at the School of Communications, Dublin City University. He completed a PhD in Media Studies in the University of Melbourne, Australia in 2015 and a MSc with Distinction in Interactive Digital Media from Trinity College Dublin. 

Oliver Dawkins, Maynouth University 

Oliver Dawkins is currently Creative Technologist on the Data Stories project at Maynooth University. His work focuses on real-time 3D visualisation and interaction using geographic information, IoT sensors and Mixed Realities (AR/VR). Recently he has worked for the UCL Energy Institute and the Connected Environments lab at The Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA). Previously Oliver also worked on the Building City Dashboards project in Ireland and participated in the Intel Collaborative Research Institute (ICRI) for Urban IoT at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in London.

Eugene McKeown, University of Galway

Eugene McKeown is an acoustician. Having held various roles in industry, academia and consulting for forty years, he is now a PhD candidate at the University of Galway studying coastal soundscapes. He has a personal and professional interest in the natural environment and has significant experience on both airborne and underwater acoustics.

Holy Trinity Church Errislannan

‘A shared and sustainable future for Holy Trinity Church, Errislannan’.

Date: Thursday 05 October

Time: 12pm

Location Holy Trinity Church, Drinagh, Errislannan, Co. Galway

Gravel car park, accessible throughout ground floor. etc.

Summary

Visit Holy Trinity Church in Errislannan for a short tour and talk about its future.

Guides Niamh Lunny, Irish Landmark Trust, Andrew Higginson and Willie Cumming

This event is FREE and open to the public. There is no booking required, but as places are limited it is advised.

Irish Landmark Trust is an all-island organisation working to save, share and sustain our unique built heritage. ILT and local community stakeholders at Holy Trinity Church are looking at how they will develop the shared future of the building. This is a new partnership for both organisations, both wish to see the building preserved and recognise the power of collaboration in achieving this. ILT will seek to regenerate the building as a short term holiday let, using best practice solutions for sustainability and energy efficiency in heritage buildings, whilst also making it available to the community for occasional services. The aspiration for both organisations is to give the building a viable, sustainable long term future.

A short tour of the church will followed by a discussion about the future of Holy Trinity Church with Willie Cumming, retired Architect and Chair of the Property Committee of ILT, Andrew Higginson, Holy Trinity Church community member and Niamh Lunny CEO of ILT.

Event Organiser: Irish Landmark Trust & The Friends of St Flannan’s

Uncertain Futures: Ireland's Maritime Heritage with;

Dr. Elizabeth Shotton

Dr. Noel Wilkins

Time 17:00pm – 18:00pm

Date(s) Wednesday 04 October, 2023

Location The Mick Lally Theatre, Druid Lane, Galway H91 N5X9 

FREE but prebook is advised as places are limited

About

Ireland's coastal infrastructure of piers and quays

A presentation on Ireland's Maritime Heritage its past and future with speakers;

Elizabeth Shotton teaches construction technology and design at the UCD School of Architecture, Planning and Environmental Policy. Her research interests focus on the sustainable use of material resources through advances in materials, construction technologies and design processes. She is currently leading a study on Ireland's Minor Harbours, examining the evolution of maritime engineering in small harbours along the coast of Ireland from the seventeenth century to the present.

Noel Wilkins is a retired Professor of Zoology of NUI Galway, where he studied and carried out research on fish and shellfish. Before that, he had spent ten years in the Marine Laboratory, Aberdeen, Scotland, working on fish and fisheries. He has travelled widely and lectured in many countries, and is the author of ten books. Two of these – the biography of Alexander Nimmo and Humble Works for Humble People deal with piers and harbours, especially those of County Galway and other western counties. He is currently working on another book on Irish fisheries research. He is author of 'Humble Works for Humble People: A History of the Fishery Piers of County Galway and North Clare, 1800–1922' - an extensive illustrated history of fishery piers along the coasts of Galway and North Clare, based on the original archives from the Office of Public Works and 'Alexander Nimmo, Master Engineer, 1783-1832: Public Works and Civil Surveys', (@merrion_press).

Supported by Patrick McCabe Architects

Patrick McCabe | B.Arch, FRIAI, RIBA, Grade 2 Conservation Architect, was instigator and chairman of Open House Galway, The West of Ireland Architectural Festival, and former chairman of the Western Group of Architects.

Hailing from Dublin, Patrick graduated in architecture from UCD in 1984. Having worked in London, he then became design director of a prominent practice in Galway, steering it to substantial growth and receiving multiple awards along the way.

He founded Patrick McCabe Architects in 2013, with a mission to make architecture that works, and now feels lucky to be able to concentrate on what he loves best—the contemporary home.

Patrick died suddenly in June 2021and sadly missed by his beloved wife of 35 years, Sarah Kelly, their children Barry, Grace and Cillian, the extended McCabe and Kelly family and also by his colleagues and friends in Architecture, Construction and sport in Galway, Mayo, Dublin and beyond.

The Map

Alice Maher and Rachel Fallon

Time: 12:00pm – 1pm and 2-4pm

Date: Wednesday 04 October, 2023

Location: The Mick Lally Theatre, Druid Lane, Galway H91 N5X9

FREE but prebook is essential

Alice Maher and Rachel Fallon will give a visual presentation and talk on their monumental textile sculpture, ‘The Map’.  The artists will discuss cartography, memory, materiality, and the collaborative process by which they developed their concept of ‘The Map’; originally commissioned for The Magdalene Series by Rua Red Dublin, and on show until October 29th 2023 at the EVA International art biennial in Limerick. 

Following their presentation of ‘The Map’ Fallon and Maher will conduct a 2 hour workshop utilising simple collage and drawing techniques.  During this time the artists will provide an opportunity for participants to engage with the concept of map making through dialogue, image-making, and collective processes experienced through the lens of art practice and the unbound imagination. 

Note: Spots are limited, once the eventbrite fills up we encourage those interested to join a waitlist by emailing info@architectureattheedge.com. If you sign up and can no longer make it, please let us know so we can give the spot to someone else.

Big Ears Listen With Feet

Bêka & Lemoine

Date:  Tuesday 03rd October   

TIme: 7pm. Duration, 93 min

Location: The Pálás Cinema, 15 Merchants Road Lower, Galway

FREE but prebook is essential

Note: Spots are limited, once the eventbrite fills up we encourage those interested to join a waitlist by emailing info@architectureattheedge.com. If you sign up and can no longer make it, please let us know so we can give the spot to someone else.

About

Artist-filmmakers Bêka & Lemoine take us to Bangkok on a one day hectic journey through the chaotic concrete jungle of the South-Asian megacity. Led by the moving personal story of Boonserm Premthada, one of today's most important Thai architects, the film unfolds through a free wander, punctuated by stunning encounters, events and places, which have contributed to shape Premthada's unique identity and sensibility. Deaf from birth, the architect evokes how his disability led him to develop an alternative way of listening using his whole body as a resonance chamber of sound vibrations. Despite their large ears, elephants also perceive sound mostly through their feet. Learning from elephants, Boonserm has developed an architecture of the senses where sound vibrations become the voice of space. Walking through the dark streets of the slum where he grew up, flying to remote rural communities living in symbiosis with elephants, and observing old ladies’ devotion towards the buddhist monks of their village, the film reveals, through impressive sequences, the architect’s active commitment to work with people for whom architecture can have a strong social impact. When a road movie merges with a film diary, here comes the one of a kind style of Bêka & Lemoine’s performative cinema.

http://www.bekalemoine.com

CREDITS

Directors; Ila Bêka & Louise Lemoine

DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Ila Bêka EDITING: Ila Bêka & Louise Lemoine

COLORIST: Melo Prino

SOUND MIX: Walter Amati, Fuji Studio

PRODUCTION: Bêka & Partners, France

Thailand, 2022, 4K, Color, 93 min

Coastal Imaginaries : How to live with water

- lecture on the Danish Pavillion from Venice Biennial x 2023

Josephine Michau

Date:  Tuesday 03 October  

Time: 17:00pm – 18:00pm

Location: The Mick Lally Theatre

FREE but prebook is advised

Note: Spots are limited, once the eventbrite fills up we encourage those interested to join a waitlist by emailing info@architectureattheedge.com. If you sign up and can no longer make it, please let us know so we can give the spot to someone else.

Summary

Presentation of "Coastal Imaginaries" the Danish pavilion at the 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale, by the architect and curator, Josephine Michau. 

About

Josephine Michau, curator of the Danish contribution, calls Coastal Imaginaries “a laboratory for hope in a world of viral hopelessness” 

Coastal Imaginaries is a dramatic narrative that through future scenarios show how the Copenhagen coastline might evolve if we employ nature-based solutions. With a combination of speculative scenography and displays of novel research projects, the exhibition invites the audience to explore the fragility and beauty of the coastal landscape.

As a laboratory of hope in the midst of universal hopelessness, Coastal Imaginaries offers a catalogue of proposals for a coastal future grounded in nature-based and sustainable solutions. Visitors at the Danish Pavilion will therefore gain insight into concrete principles for how we can adapt to the rising sea levels and ever more frequent storm floods caused by climate change, which will dramatically change our coastal landscapes this century.

Josephine Michau has a master’s degree in business administration and philosophy and is co-founder and CEO of  Copenhagen Architecture Festival (CAFx). Since 2014, CAFx has communicated architecture and urbanism to the public through a program of 100-200 annual activities. In 2015 the festival received a prize from the Danish Architecture Association for its ability “…to think about the communication of architecture, highlight its qualities and diversity, and create relevant debate”

In 2019, Josephine Michau received the Henning Larsen Foundation Award for “…her tireless and fascinating commitment to understanding, communicating and engaging people in the landscape of architecture in our lives …”

In the context of CAFx she has initiated and co-authored several articles, publications and film productions + conducted yearly workshops on film and architecture since 2016.

Re-imagining a Line (in search of the Esker Riada)

Joe Laverty, Aidan O’Neill and Ruby Wallis

Date(s)/ Time

Walk 13:00pm – 14:30pm, Monday 02 September, 2023

Meeting, carpark, Church of the Annunciation, Main Street, Clarinbridge, Co. Galway H91 HW58

Exhibition, 11am -6pm, 29th September – 08 October 

Location Festival Printworks Gallery, 15 Market Street, Galway Behind PorterShed a Dó.

Joe, Aidan and Ruby will also be delivering an artists talk in the Festival Printworks Gallery on 2nd Oct at 5pm.

About

The Esker Riada / An Slí Mhór – is an ancient route, East-West, across the centre of Ireland, loosely following the geographical Eskers that were deposited from glacial riverbeds at the end of the last ice-age. Following the route mapped out by Hermann Geissel in his book: A Road on the Long Ridge, photographic artists Joe Laverty, Ruby Wallis and Aidan O'Neill have walked a section of the route, seeking to re-imagine the line across the map by paying close attention to the geological materiality of the land, exploring a multiplicity of possible meanings and layers.

Encountering this path is to find sites of social and political trauma, dereliction but also connection and belonging. Following Geissel’s meticulous maps, the artists will visually excavate hidden and buried signs of the ancient path, and explore its intersections with the contemporary, including the M6 motorway that criss-crosses the old road.

Event

Walk & photograph the final section of the Esker Riada / an Slí Mhór with the artists Joe Laverty, Ruby Wallis & Aidan O'Neill - departs from Clarinbridge on Monday 02nd Oct at 1pm.

This event is FREE and open to the public. There is no booking required, but places are limited and will operate on a first come first serve basis. 

9ft in Common

Aisling Rusk, (Studio Idir) and Amberlea Neely

Date Sunday 01 October 2023

Time 3pm - 4.30pm

Location The Mick Lally Theatre

FREE but prebook is advised as spaces are limited

Note: once the eventbrite fills up we encourage those interested to join a waitlist by emailing info@architectureattheedge.com. If you sign up and can no longer make it, please let us know so we can give the spot to someone else.

Dr Aisling Rusk and Amberlea Neely of 9ft in Common discuss mapping as a way in to rediscovering Belfast’s alleyways. You are invited to reimagine a familiar place, creating your own ‘monomap’.

About

9ft in Common is a cross-disciplinary partnership between creative practitioner Amberlea Neely and architect Dr Aisling Rusk, long-time collaborators around matters of people, connection and space. The investigation was highly commended in the 2023 RIAI Architecture Awards, research category. In this event, we will share our discovery of Belfast’s alleyways and the making of the Belfast Alley Map. We will discuss mapping as a way of interpreting a space and the important strategic and inclusive response that the project offers in terms of public space, creative intervention, untapped heritage and climate emergency. During the workshop element, we will invite you to think about your own street, neighbourhood, or city, and you will have the opportunity to create your own beautiful, one-of-a-kind mini, mono-printed map. All equipment and training will be provided. Anyone can make a map!

Mapping the Corrib Soundscape

Date /Time

Sunday 01 October, 11:00 hrs

Saturday 07 October 15:00 hrs

Meet, Depart from The Mick Lally Theatre

This event is FREE and open to the public. There is no booking required, but places are limited and will operate on a first come first serve basis. You can register you interest via booking links below.

The event is out of doors and requires suitable clothing and footwear. The route is wheelchair accessible but requires crossing the road at Wolf Tone Bridge, O’Brien’s Bridge and the Salmon Weir Bridge. Duration approximately one hour.

Summary:

Galway’s waterways form a unique soundscape in a busy city centre. This event explores the sounds and provides a guided walk. 

Event Organiser Galway Sound Lab

About:

The soundscape, i.e. all the sounds we hear around us, is an increasingly important part of our environment. Natural sounds are increasingly important in peoples connection with nature. Galway is blessed with a fast flowing river and waterway network that generates a wide variety of natural sounds which, for a substantial part of the city centre, dominate the soundscape. This event maps and highlights some of these sounds and guides the participants on a stroll to experience them.

In addition to a guided walk, a topophilic map of key locations along the route has been developed. Locations are also marked on Google Maps (search Riverside Soundwalk). A QR code will link to a self-guided walk along the Corrib. Each persons experience will be different, every time they do the walk, as the sounds change during the day and throughout the year.

Guides:

Eugene McKeown who has been working on acoustics for over forty years has a specific interest in Galway’s soundscape. He will give a talk on the soundscape and describes some of the sounds both past and present that are part of Galway’s acoustic heritage.

Laoise Tarrant is currently working on a topophilic map of the Corrib as it flows through Galway which will be the first map of its kind.  

Alternatively people can take part in a self-guided walk at any time during the week by listening to a podcasts which can be found using a QR code.

The research conducted in this presentation was funded by the Irish Research Council under grant number GOIPG/2023/4631

PLACE & PLATE

Jeni Glasgow

Date  Saturday 30th September

Time 7pm till later

Shanbolard Farm, Moyard, Co. Galway

About

PLACE & PLATE for Architecture at the Edge Festival, 2023.

PLACE & PLATE is a hyper-local supper designed & curated by Jeni Glasgow of GLASGOW-DIAZ in collaboration with Connemara based nomadic pop-up THE SEA HARE. 

The supper is a considered response to the project ‘Meat and Two Veg: How Eating Designs The World’ by BothAnd Group.

Meat and two vegetables - explores how a popular dish which is framed as ‘local’ by food marketing campaigns is rather produced across European and global landscapes.  These contradictions are followed in the fieldwork which encounter Ireland’s grass and carrot seeds produced in the Netherlands, its broccoli seeds in Spain and its potato tubers in Scotland. The research unveils the intensive synthetic character of European rural landscapes and presents us with places that have been designed by and for our consumption.

In the unique surrounds of Shanbolard Farm Potting Shed we will enjoy a series of small plates that celebrate the island, the garden, the ocean & the season. Food for thought. Dinner without airmiles. A local story.

PLEASE NOTE:

Places are incredibly limited for this unique supper. If you would like to attend, please email your request to info@theseahare.ie (tickets are €75 each and are limited to two per person) & you will be entered into a draw - if your name is picked you will be sent a link to purchase. Submit application emails no later than 6pm Friday 22.09.23.

The location is on a working farm please wear suitable footwear & warm clothing.

Due to the nature of the event we cannot accommodate dietary requirements; this menu will feature meat, fish, dairy, wheat, eggs, etc

Join the Dots

McCullough Mulvin Architects

Gallery talk / presentation by architect, Valerie Mulvin

Date Saturday 30th September

Time 12:30 – 1:30pm  

Location Festival Printworks Gallery, 15 Market street, Galway

This event is FREE and open to the public. Pre-booking is advised as places are limited.

 About

100 small ideas for sustainable change. Vacancy and dereliction blight the centres of our towns and villages. Why? Because nobody is thinking about them imaginatively as the brilliant spaces they could be. In our post-pandemic world, people can now work remotely – inhabiting our towns and villages – and bringing life back to these amazing instant environments. They can invigorate existing communities and bring fresh thinking to our squares and spaces to create an integrated, and a better, way of living.

We are suggesting Mountrath in county Laois, as a testing ground for ideas for housing that could be applied to any Irish town. New plans can be about small-scale ideas in all kinds of places. The exhibition explores a number of modes of living, typical to towns, in order to draw out their potential in an inventive and pragmatic way. It identifies 100 small ways to make a difference; decisions and actions that could be employed incrementally over time.

Housing, the perfect use for vacancy of upper floors and extending into the backlands behind main streets, can make for interesting interlocking sites and atmospheric spaces. These new models of housing suit inter-generational living and working from home. People choose what housing model best suits their lifestyle, and it could be done at a reasonable cost by using what we already have and making it brilliant for now and for the future.

ESTIMATED POTENTIAL NEW UNITS

We are exploring and detailing here 2 proposed units for ‘Living over the Shop’ and the ‘Live-Work’ model, while a ‘Cycle House’ could produce an estimated 6 units. Adjacent to this, in a typical backlands area, we detail a total of 8 units in a mix of 3 apartments, 3 duplexes and 2 houses. Our intention would be that these prototypes can then be rolled out in multiples across any Irish town setting.

For this particular study - 150 units were identified for Mountrath which could translate into 45,000 units nationwide if replicated for 300 Irish towns.

Project Team

Valerie Mulvin (McCullough Mulvin Architects)
Ruth O’Herlihy (McCullough Mulvin Architects)
Coran O’Connor (McCullough Mulvin Architects)
Iseult McCullough (McCullough Mulvin Architects)
Denis Looby (McCullough Mulvin Architects)
Barry Durkan (Sustainability and property advisor, Durkan Residential)
Graeme Hansell (Fire engineer)
Jack Carter (Local advisor)

Collaborators

Tim O’Sullivan (McCullough Mulvin Architects – Drone footage)

Fabricators

Katie Galvin (Presentation models)
Jan Watte (Watte Woodwork)
Barry Hanratty (Light systems)

Acknowledgements

RTÉ Archive
Laois County Council

Architect led tour of Blackrock Cottage. A view of a pre-development video model, a walk through and short talk about the development.

Architects Seán Dockry & Associates

Sean Duane, Duane Construction

This event is FREE and open to the public. Pre-booking is advised, as places are limited and will operate on a first come first serve basis. 

With thanks to Blackrock Cottage, the latest venture of Executive Head Chef Martin O’Donnell, who you may know from his instrumental role at The Twelve Hotel in Barna.

Housed inside the beautifully restored and renovated 1830s cottage, you’ll find them located alongside Salthill’s iconic Blackrock Diving Tower. The ideal spot for sea-swimmers, prom walkers and locals to sit, chat and enjoy delicious food.

Culinary Connections

Jack O’Hagan + Bodil Eiterstraum

Date Saturday 30 October 2023

Time 08:00am -18.00pm

Location: Galway Market, at Saint Nicholas' Collegiate Church, Lombard St. Galway H91 PY20.

And afterwards on show at the Festival Printworks Gallery, 15 Market Street, Galway H91 TCX3

This event is FREE and open to the public. There is no booking required.

About

Architects Jack O’Hagan and Bodil Eiterstraum have created a map which takes the form of a market stall that showcases the significance of the Galway Market within the city's food scene. They have remapped the interactions that reveals the intricate web of relationships within the market, highlighting the importance of the market on Galway’s vibrant food scene, and how it extends its influence throughout the city.

Much like the other market vendors, arriving at St. Nicholas' Church on market day, Jack and Bodil will set-up stall from 08:00am, until 18:00pm. Through its presence, the aim is to stimulate a conversation with the public about the market's role in the food culture of Galway and the importance in fostering and protecting this centuries old tradition. Like other vendors, our stall too is transportable. When the market closes we will wheel it to the Festival Gallery Printworks where the map will continue to be exhibited for the duration of the festival.

Supported by;

Big thanks to all that helped support Jack and Bodil in the making of the map; The Galway Market Committee,(@Galwaymarket), Jess Murphy (@Kai_Galway), Layla Hein (Coolfin Organic Bakery), Dr. Jp McMahon, (@Mistereatgalway), Seamus Sheridan (@sheridanscheese), Sheena Dignam (@Galwayfoodtours), Sinead Meacle, (@ean_galway), Market Stall Holders and others.