Summerage The Burren

Haslam & Co

Tour

Date: Sunday 06 Oct
Time: 3pm (1 hour and 30 minutes approx)
FREE

Architect led tour with Mike Haslam, Haslam & Co.

Summerage channels the spirit of The Burren for a new rural retreat in one of Europe’s most unique landscapes.

 Revived 32 acre farmstead in the west coast of Ireland becomes a dedicated ‘slow living’ escape in the heart of a glacio karst landscape gifting space, time and a deeper connection with nature

Founded by slow food restaurateur and slow fashion entrepreneur Aoibheann MacNamara, Summerage is sited in a area of special area of conservation with 360 degree views of Ireland’s most biodiverse region

Described as ‘a place apart’, the renovated farm cottage with extension by ecological architects Haslam & Co , this sustainable and ecologically conscious restoration of a traditional Irish farmhouse has created an escape to appreciate the space and stillness of 360 degree views across its 32 acres.

Location: Summerage is a 3km drive from the Poulnabrone Dolmen and five kilometres from the coastal village of Ballyvaughan. Eircode to be shared upon event registration.

SEMAPHORE

Tom Cookson + Sarah Carroll

Exhibition

Date: Friday 27 September - Sunday, 6 October 2024
Time: 11:00 - 17:00
Location: The Shed, Middle Pier, Galway Harbour

Our project explores the built phenomenon of Irish signal towers and their position within the wider tradition of optical maritime communication. We are interested in the physical act of signalling to distant points and the distinctly Irish application of this technology. In response to a much feared French invasion in the early 1800s, a constellation of 81 signal towers were constructed along the periphery of the island. Signalling was achieved by means of flags and balls, relaying messages to and from inland locations and to ships at sea.

Our project culminates in an architectural installation within the maritime environment of Galway Docks. We will explore the idea of semaphore through a series of physical objects, unearthing and communicating the cultural history of signalling through words, artefacts and drawings.

Corresponding events will be found via the link in our Instagram bio over the coming weeks featuring an Artists Talk  on Saturday 05th October 3.00pm.

Galway’s Public Archipelago (Islands)

Film Shorts

Date: Saturday, 5 October 2024
Time: 4pm – 6pm
Location: Pálás Cinema, 15 Merchants Rd Lower, Galway

Tickets: FREE

Interested in how architecture and film shape our sense of belonging? Then join us for the 

Premiere of short 3min films produced during the past week from participants at the Architecture at the Edge Festival film + architecture workshop, 2024. 

Architecture at the Edge and Copenhagen Architecture Festival, CAFx partnered up to organize a film & architecture workshop focusing on creative filmmaking and the relationships between negotiation, conviviality, and the impact of sites on personal experience. This is the result! 

A series of  3min film shorts made in and about Galway City. 

During the one-week program led by Sabrina Morreale + Lorenzo Perri, Lemonot studio with Sofie Stilling, from the Royal Danish Academy, we explored Galway’s Public Archipelago (Islands). Participants were introduced to practices of investigative observation, archival research, and new ways of documenting and mapping the city - interrogating issues of land ownership, environmental, ecological and physical qualities of the landscape as well considering the human interactions, the convivial strategies of resistance created by citizens, and applied this knowledge to create their own short films documenting or addressing design solutions found in the built, grown and/or planned environment of Galway city.

Supported by: the Arts Council and Screen Ireland, Skills Development Funding Scheme

Building societies: architecture in Irish artists’ film 

Selected by Gavin Murphy

Film Screening

Date: Tuesday 01 Oct, 2024

Time: 6pm – 8:30pm

Location: Pálás Cinema, 15 Merchants Rd Lower, Galway

Building societies presents the film work of four Irish artists Anne Maree Barry, Fiona Hallinan, Eva George Richardson McCrea, and Dennis McNulty. The films engage with architecture as subject through a variety of formal and narrative approaches, yet all concern the lived experience of buildings, and explore the forces that drive the development of our built environment, be they colonial powers, progressive modernism, the church, or speculative capitalism. 

Dennis McNulty's Carbon Dating juxtaposes the margin drawings from American urban planner and author Kevin Lynch's What Time is This Place with an interview with an academic who used to work at the University of East Anglia, a Brutalist campus in Norwich, UK.  

Anne Maree Barry's Otium cum Dignitate ~ Leisure with Dignity combines psychogeographic walking tours of the 'Monto' area in Dublin to create a film that establishes a dialogue between locality, history, and architecture, to present a complex portrait of female empowerment.

In Eva George Richardson McCrea's Rope, three men sit around a table in the decaying corpse of a building as they engage in small talk about holidays and hobbies, have a conversation about Alfred Hitchcock’s film, Rope, and discuss various aspects of property development.

Fiona Hallinan's Making Dust is a portrait of the demolition of Ireland's second largest Catholic Church, the Church of the Annunciation in Finglas West, Dublin. Informed by Ultimology, a practice of looking closely at endings, it invites its audience to think about the life cycles of buildings and materials, what we value, and issues of sustainability in architecture.

Building societies was originally screened at Composite, Melbourne to coincide with exhibition The necessity of ruins (Films 2012—2023) by artist Gavin Murphy, with the support of The Arts Council and Culture Ireland, and presented in collaboration with aemi and Pallas Projects.

Screening Program: 

Dennis McNulty, Carbon Dating (2011), 05:35

Anne Maree Barry, Otium cum Dignitate ~ Leisure with Dignity (2017), 23:29 

Eva Richardson McCrea, Rope (2022), 14:26

Fiona Hallinan, Making Dust (2023), 45:00

The programme will be followed by a discussion with artist filmmakers, Fiona Hallinan and architectural historian Ellen Rowley. Followed by Anne Maree Barry with Alice Butler from aemi.

Event curated by Gavin Murphy, co-director of Pallas Projects/Studios.

Screening as part of the Architecture at the Edge Festival 2024.

Inis Mór Archaeological Walk

Guided tour led by Michael Gibbons, Walking Ireland

Walk/Tour

Date: Monday September 30th, 2024  
Time: 10am for 10.30am ferry / Return 5pm
Location: Rossaveal Pier, Co Galway  
Link to Ferry Departure location HERE

Archaeological Field Trip to Inis Mór, exploring the karst limestone and the rich Celtic Forts which dominate the western fringes of Europe.

Inis Mór has been settled for at least the last 6,000 years and is ribbed by a filigree network of stone walls, some dating back to these Prehistoric times. The skyline is crowned by spectacular Forts and an array of very beautifully sited Early Monastic Sites. We will explore the most famous site on the island, which is undoubtedly Dún Aengus, a 3,000-year-old: 14-acre cliff-edge fortress: surrounded by the best-preserved example of Chevaux-de-Frise in European archaeology and is the site of the discovery of a Palaeolithic hand axe (c.300,000 years old).

We will also explore the rich monastic sites as the island is famously associated with St Enda, one of the giants of Early Irish Monasticism, although his main monastery was demolished during the Elizabethan and later Cromwellian conquest of the island.

Tickets cost €30, Includes Ferry to the Island.

Bring your walking boots and wear appropriate clothing for the outdoors!  

Event Image* General View with Dún Aengus on the cliff edge.

Photo courtesy Walking Ireland.

The Story of Hospitality

Jennie Moran/Luncheonette

Performance, Lecture, Celebration

Date: Sunday 29th September
Time: 14:00
Location: The Mick Lally Theatre, Druid Ln, Galway

What is hospitality and why does it matter? This performance is a celebration of the gorgeous system we have invented for welcoming strangers. We will delve into the origins of this poetic practice, the risks involved, the philosophy behind it, the strict rules, the honour attached to it, the folklore that surrounds it. This is an invitation to see hospitality, not as an industry, but as a gut instinct that we humans have for generosity and coexistence and to reconsider our role as hosts to one another.

Story of Hospitality is written by Jennie Moran/Luncheonette and animated by dance artist Roberta Ceginskaite and accompanied by musician Seamas Hyland.

Jennie Moran is an Irish visual artist who uses the philosophy of hospitality to create opportunities for shared connection. She runs Luncheonette, an emergency response unit which uses food to make places better. She has written a book entitled How to Soften Corners about the impact of hospitality in institutions.  

Roberta Ceginskaiteis a creator and dancer based in Galway. She graduated in Contemporary Dance from Fontys Hogeschool voor de Kunsten in Tilburg. On return to Ireland, Roberta partook in the Step Up Dance Project, working with choreographer Fearghus Ó’Conchúir. She recently presented her solo piece ‘Spoonful’ at the What Next 2023 festival in Limerick and continues to create her own work thanks to the Arts Council Agility Award, the HATCH mentorship award from Dance Ireland and the Galway Dance Project.

Seamas Hyland, native of west Waterford is a multi-instrumentalist, set dancer and singer. He is currently based in Dublin and is working to release a solo button accordion album in 2023. He plays in a duet project with banjo player Paddy Cummins and is a full-time member of the Mary Wallopers

 Supported by the Arts Council

Photo by Pablo Marín García

Constructed Landscape of Inis Oírr

Noreile Breen

Exhibition

Date: Saturday, 28 September 2024
Time: 11am - 6pm
Location: Foyer, the Mick Lally Theatre, Druid ln. Galway

A photographic study of the 'humanised' constructed landscape of Inis OÍrr.

The stone walls of Inis Oírr fuse and interact with the islands ground condition. Architecture is ultimately spatial and space is made between this given ground condition and the constructed walls enclosure. This photographic study focuses on this three dimensional sectional connection, relationship and interaction.

Noreile Breen studied architecture at the Dublin School of Architecture, DIT. She worked with Atelier Bow-Wow in Japan and Steve Larkin Architects before establishing her own practice which is based between Dublin and Kerry. Noreile has taught architecture at KTH Stockholm, Bergen School of Architecture, Parsons School of Design New York, Queens University Belfast and the School of Architecture University Limerick where she is currently a lecturer. Noreile is the recipient of a number of awards, a registered architect with the Royal Institute of Architects of Ireland and a Grade 3 Architect Accredited in Conservation.

In November 2022, she undertook a 7 month residency on Inis Oírr, the Aran Islands; 1450 acres of a ‘Humanised Landscape’ composed of limestone formations and walled sheltered constructed fields without trees. Inis Oírr is the third landscape in context of a larger body of work; A study of landscape types of the island of Ireland which started at Bothár Buí’s Cleanderry Wood; A Natural Habitat and continues at Tullynally Demense; 1500 acres of a Cultivated Landscape.

Noreile will deliver an Artist Talk on Saturday 05th October at 2.00 pm in the Theatre.

Shane de Blacam Lecture

In partnership Arts in Action at the University of Galway

Date: Friday 27th September, 2024

Full line up for ther evening;

4:00pm Public reception, presentation.

4:30pm Introduction, Marko Milovanovic

5:00 p.m Lecture Shane de Blacam.

Break

7:00 p.m Lecture by Cian Deegan and Alice Casey, TAKA Architects

7:30 pm - Round table discussion will follow with moderator Marko Milovanovic.

Location: O'Donoghue Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance

Shane De Blacam formed the architectural practice de Blacam and Meagher with John Meagher in 1976. De Blacam’s buildings are characterised by their simplicity and their celebration of local materials. Throughout his career, he has been concerned with creating spaces for people to come together, including the sensitively restored Abbeyleix Library in Laois and the elegant Samuel Beckett Theatre at Trinity College, Dublin. Before forming his practice with Meagher, de Blacam worked in London with the architects of the Barbican Centre, Chamberlain, Powell and Bon. He then travelled to America where he worked with Louis I. Khan for two years on the Mellon Centre for British Art and British Studies, Yale University, New Haven Connecticut.

Shane de Blacam was awarded the 2023 RA Architecture Prize.  He will deliver a lecture with slides originally delivered at the Royal Academy London October 2023.

To complete the line-up of the evening, architects Cian Deegan and Alice Casey from Taka Architects will be in Galway to present their work and join with our moderator Marko Milovanovic, for discussion.

Admission is free upon reservation.

In partnership Arts in Action at the University of Galway.

Supported by Arts Council of Ireland. 

Shane De Blacam was born Dublin 14th October 1945. B.Arch. (NUI) 1968, M. Arch. (PENN) 1970, MRIAI 1972, RIBA 1976, FRIAI 1986, HLFRSAI 1994. Grade 1 Conservation Architect 2003. Undergraduate School of Architecture University College Dublin 1963-68 Post graduate School of Architecture University of Pennsylvania USA 1969-70. Worked in London with Chamberlain, Powell and Bon, and Philadelphia with Louis I. Khan where Shane worked for two years on the Mellon Centre for British Art and British Studies Yale University New Haven Connecticut. 1972 returned to Ireland as first year master at the School of Architecture, University College Dublin. Commenced practice de Blacam and Meagher 1976. Shane worked in architectural partnership with John Meagher in Dublin for 45 years until John died, early 2021. They shared a friendship and close exchange of criticism and drawings and shared design responsibility for the work of de Blacam and Meagher, sometimes with others in the practice. Gold Medal and five silver medals for architecture and conservation including the Gandon Medal of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland, Europa Nostra Silver medal, member of AOSDANA an institution to honour achievement in art of the Government of Ireland, and the Royal Academy London Architecture Prize 2023.

TAKA

Alice Casey studied architecture in TU Dublin (DIT) graduating in 2003. after spending time gaining professional experience in London and Dublin, Alice co-founded TAKA in Dublin in 2007. Alice has taught architecture in UCD, Queen’s University Belfast, and TU Dublin – where she currently teaches in the masters in architecture and professional diploma in architectural practice courses. Alice holds a PhD by practice from RMIT, is an RIAI architect accredited in conservation at grade 3, and is registered with the architect’s registration board in the UK. Alice examines candidates for membership of the RIAI and has been a member of the Royal Institute of Architects of Ireland since 2007. Cian Deegan studied architecture in TU Dublin (DIT) graduating in 2003. after spending time gaining professional experience in London (with Niall McLaughlin architects) and Dublin (with O’Donnell & Tuomey), Cian co-founded TAKA in Dublin in 2007. Cian has taught architecture in UCD, Queen’s University Belfast, and TU Dublin, where he is currently a lecturer. Cian holds a PhD by practice from RMIT and has been a member of the Royal Institute of Architects of Ireland since 2007.

Marko Milovanovic has been selected as our Shane de Blacam Resident.

Marko is an architect, artist, journalist and founder of @freeschoolof and @mylomark. The educational platform Free School Of celebrates dialogue as a fundamental form of knowledge. Marko has interviewed artists, architects, curators, and scholars and written extensively on culture, politics and urban regeneration. He teaches at the Architectural Association School of Architecture, Royal College of Art, and Oxford Brookes University.  

The Shane de Blacam Residency has been created in collaboration with the Royal Academy of Arts, London.  The project that will be showcased is "Temptation of Influence" by British architect, artist, and journalist Marko Milovanovic. It consists of a selection of video and audio recorded interviews, photographs, video documentation, and a visual and written essay on Influence within the Field of Architecture.  This multimedia project is a collection of video and audio artefacts documenting the architectural legacy and philosophy of architect Shane de Blacam. This conversational piece examines influence across generations and cultures, focusing on de Blacam’s work and his connections to his predecessors, such as Andrea Palladio and his mentor Louis Kahn, as well as his students, who are now prominent Irish and British architects.

TAKA Architects: Transmission

Lecture

Date:           Friday 27th September, 2024
4:30pm:       Public reception
5:00pm:       Presentations by Taka Architects and Shane de Blacam.
7:15pm:       Round table hosted by Marko Milovanovic.
Location:     O'Donoghue Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance

TAKA Architects was founded in 2008, by Alice Casey and Cian Deegan and is based in Dublin, Ireland. 

The practice has received national and international awards; including being shortlisted for the 2017 Mies Van der Rohe European Union Prize, finalist in the BD Young Architect of the Year Award and Royal Academy Dorfman Award, and winner of the AR Peter Davey Prize for Emerging Architecture 2019.
TAKA has exhibited in the Venice Architecture Biennale several times: in 2008 as an exhibitor in the Irish National Pavilion, in 2010 as co-curator of the Irish National Pavilion, and in 2018 as an exhibitor in the Central Pavilion.

Alice & Cian have taught Architecture at Queens University Belfast, University College Dublin, and currently at the Dublin School of Architecture (TU Dublin). They have both been a recipient of the EU Marie Curie/ Adapt-R research fellowship and completed PhDs by Practice with the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) in 2017.

.WAY

Brock Finucane

Exhibition, Research, Design

Launch date: Sep 27th, 15.00 - 21.00

Exhibition running from Friday 27th September - Sunday 6th October 2024

Opening hours: Tuesday–Saturday 10am–5.30pm
Sunday 12 noon–5pm, Closed Mondays

 Location: Outset Gallery, Unit 15, The Cornstore, Galway City

.Way is a body of research and examinations of potential futures for Mulranny proposed by a team of Architects, Landscape Architects, Artist and Educators.

Mulranny is a coastal community on the periphery.  It is a town shaped geographically and culturally by movement. Overlooking the archipelago of drowned drumlin islands nestled in Clew Bay, it sits on a landscape formed on the margin of glacial systems and is shadowed by the vast Nephin mountain range.  The town sits at the intersection of rural and wild. It once punctuated the landscape as Victorian tourist destination but is now a threshold town to the Corraun Peninsula, Mullet Peninsula and Achill Island.  Subject to relentless weather fronts from the Atlantic, it is now enduring the increasing impacts of climate change.

Initially commissioned as a project to examine a spatial plan for Mulranny, the body of work has, and is extending to, research, test, and proposal – asking how we find our way through and situate ourselves in a moving landscape shaped and scarred by both the static and dynamic – infrastructure, settlement, climate, way.

Event Organiser

Brock Finucane is led by Nicci Brock and Ruairi Finucane.  The practice is engaged in research, design and education. .Way collaborators are Lucas Dobbin, Sarah Fox, Rodhlann Mossop, James Mooney, Alex Pollock.

Faith in the Future - Exhibition

Exhibition

Date: Friday 27/09 - Monday 30/09 and Friday 04/10 - Sunday 06/10

Opening Hours: 12pm - 5pm

A close look at revitalising church buildings and their curtilage; an exhibition of architectural drawings and models along with crios-weaving workshops St. John's Church, Ballinasloe, and a felting workshop and talk at the Mick Lally theatre.

An exhibition at St. John's Church during the Ballinasloe Horse Fair exploring the adaptive reuse of two historic sites in East Galway, St. John's and Holy Trinity Church, Aughrim, through craft and the use of sustainable timber structures. The exhibition features architectural drawings and scale models created by young architects collaborating between Ireland and Belgium, building on their engagement with these places and their communities during last year’s festival. In addition, there will be three hands-on crios-weaving workshops, offering participants the chance to engage directly with traditional crafts while reflecting on the themes of heritage and community.

At the Mick Lally Theatre, there will be a felting workshop, followed by a talk presenting the work of the Faith in the Future project so far.

Event Organiser

Faith in the Future is led by Beibhinn Delaney, in collaboration with Marie-Caroline Kawa, Lara Clifford & Caoimhe Walsh. Support comes from the Arts Council, Donegal Yarns & Ballinasloe Credit Union.

Faith in the Future - Crios-Weaving Workshops

Workshop

Date: 14:00 - 16:00 Friday 04/10, Saturday 05/10 & Sunday 06/10

Opening Hours: 12pm - 5pm

A close look at revitalising church buildings and their curtilage; an exhibition of architectural drawings and models along with crios-weaving workshops St. John's Church, Ballinasloe, and a felting workshop and talk at the Mick Lally theatre.

An exhibition at St. John's Church during the Ballinasloe Horse Fair exploring the adaptive reuse of two historic sites in East Galway, St. John's and Holy Trinity Church, Aughrim, through craft and the use of sustainable timber structures. The exhibition features architectural drawings and scale models created by young architects collaborating between Ireland and Belgium, building on their engagement with these places and their communities during last year’s festival. In addition, there will be three hands-on crios-weaving workshops, offering participants the chance to engage directly with traditional crafts while reflecting on the themes of heritage and community.

At the Mick Lally Theatre, there will be a felting workshop, followed by a talk presenting the work of the Faith in the Future project so far.

Event Organiser

Faith in the Future is led by Beibhinn Delaney, in collaboration with Marie-Caroline Kawa, Lara Clifford & Caoimhe Walsh. Support comes from the Arts Council, Donegal Yarns & Ballinasloe Credit Union.

Inishbofin Archaeological Walk

Guided tour led by by Michael Gibbons, Walking Ireland

Walk/Tour

Date: Wednesday September 25th, 2024 

Time: 11am, for 11.30am ferry / Return 5pm ferry.

Location: Cleggan Pier, Co Galway

Archaeological Field Trip to Inishbofin Island, exploring Bronze Age landscapes emerging from beneath the cutaway bogs and the 17th century fort that controls the natural harbour.

Inishbofin’s early settlement history is evident from the dozens of Bronze Age monuments, which we will see during our Field Trip.  The island was first mentioned by the Venerable Bede in the Early 8th Century and used as a refuge for Northumbrian Monks.  It was raided by the Vikings in 795AD and long retained strong associations with Anglo-Saxon England.  

Located on the border between the two powerful Gaelic maritime lordships of the O’Malley’s and the O’Flaherty’s, Inishbofin has a turbulent history.  It was the last Gaelic stronghold to fall to Cromwell and subsequently had strong links with 17th Century France and 18th Century America.  Its fragmented coastline boasts dramatic sea cliffs and sea caves and is home to a rich variety of marine life.

Tickets cost €30, Includes Ferry to the Island. Book here via Eventbrite

Photo courtesy www.walkingireland.com