Every month, architects and design experts share their recommendations for the latest exhibitions and events from across the country.
THIS MONTH:
Squashed Living: Laura Ferry and Peter O’Grady
Squashed Living is Laura Ferry and Peter O’Grady.
Laura Ferry is an architectural graduate from University College Dublin. She has studied sustainable material development in Dublin and Aarhus, Denmark. Her work engages with community led place-making which aligns with a local identity and a cultural expression.
Peter O’Grady is an architecture graduate from UCD. Having studied housing in Dublin and Paris, he is interested in reading, writing and designing housing that offers forms for sustainable cultures in our continuously urbanising societies.
Instagram: @squashed_living
After an invigorating and exciting display of Irish architecture in September and October, there is much to anticipate in November.
Our month will begin with a dance-disguised silent walk with Wanderlust as part of Common Ground in aid of Doras Ireland and the Liberty Soup Run on Sunday the 3rd November. Participants, with headphones, will move along Dublin’s Grand Canal listening to music curated by DJ JWY. The event will finish at Portobello Square with spoken word and a temporary exhibition ‘A Fractured City: from Hostility to Hospitality’ with Squashed Living and Rubble.
We thoroughly recommend a visit to the Irish Architectural Archive’s book sale from 10am to 5pm, Friday 8 November. It’s a great chance to pick up affordable books and resources on Irish architecture and design, an ideal opportunity for anyone looking to expand their collection.
This month sees the continuation of ‘This Is Where We Are Now’ at the IAF’s temporary venue on Charlemont Walk. BenchMark by Rubble displays a nomadic bench which facilitated a series of impromptu interviews about Dublin’s public spaces during the Open House Dublin festival of architecture. The project invites conversation about the possibility of social infrastructure provision in our cities, prompting the question: if so much happens in the absence of characterful, situated, or even basic infrastructure such as benches, what could be possible if the public are supported in their inhabitation of shared spaces?
November brings Irish Design Week, and we’re excited for its keynote event. Designer Colm Dillanne, recipient of LVMH’s Karl Lagerfeld award, will join IDI member and NCAD fashion lecturer Natalie B. Coleman for a conversation at the Royal Irish Academy of Music on Tuesday November 12th. The week has an extensive programme including workshops, panel discussions and exhibitions from 11th to 15th November.
Another evening we believe cannot be missed is Mariam Issoufou in conversation with Professor Lesley Lokko OBE from the Design and Crafts Council Ireland, in collaboration with the Irish Architecture Foundation. This will take place at the same Royal Irish Academy of Music Monday November 11th.
Finally a return to Charlemont Walk to view ON REST by Dominic Daly, a photographic series documenting the behaviour of the human body searching for respite. The work was created entirely over the course of two hours and set within a 200m section of O’Connell Street in 2022 as lockdown was lifted.
