The second in a series of conversations with architects of the Irish diaspora on design, distance and what it means to feel at home in the world today.
Ireland has long been shaped by migration, movement and lives lived across seas and borders. The Scale of Distance brings together architects from the Irish diaspora to explore what distance and home mean when their experience of place, belonging and identity has been formed in more than one country.
The series creates space for a different kind of architecture and place conversation, one that moves between the professional and the personal, asking not only how we design homes, but what it means to feel at home in the world today.
Webinar 2 with Donn Holohan and Elspeth Lee (Superposition):
Working between Hong Kong and Ireland, and through projects across China and southern France, Superposition founders Donn Holohan and Espeth Lee have spent the past decade occupying a position that is neither wholly outside nor inside any one context. This condition has shaped the way they work and think about what it means for architecture to be local. Although geographically and culturally distinct, these places are increasingly connected through systems of extraction, supply, technology and production, bringing their material cultures into closer alignment than might at first appear.
Drawing on recent residencies, fellowships, exhibitions and projects, they will consider how materials, skills and construction knowledge move between places and whether architecture can move beyond dominant models of scalability and material substitution. Rather than rejecting these systems of production, the work asks how they might be recalibrated to accommodate specific resources, skills and environmental conditions and how distance might sharpen an understanding of place.
Hosted by Peter O'Grady.
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