Material Echoes: IAF Summer School 2025

The IAF Summer School offers participants the opportunity for collective exchange and collaborative making during two guided workshops. Participants are encouraged to join both workshops.

10:00-13:00 – ‘good for nothings’ workshop with Rubble (LINA Fellows and IAF gaplab participants)

‘Why is everything made of trash?’ (Dean Kissick, Five Years). And what in fact is trash? What is ‘good’, what do we value? When is a characteristic or piece of the city considered valuable? At a point when circularity and re-use are becoming ingrained as concepts within architecture, we begin to consider more deeply what it means to work with the existing and how we can find our own character within the melee of junk and discard which we have to work with.

Together we will make a wilfully purposeless ephemeral scenography. The workshop aims to equip participants with some basic DIY strategies and, more fundamentally, a feeling for the notion of appropriation itself, the understanding that our relationship with the city can be reciprocal and that we can each find space to build narratives within it.

14:00-17:00 – ‘Learning with Ghosts’ workshop with Jacques-Marie Ligot and Lucille Leger (LINA Fellows, based in Paris)

This workshop will explore the spectral nature of architectural representation, particularly architectures of light and observation. Participants will collaborate to create a collective model incorporating images and texts from their personal histories. This collective model will serve as both a subjective architecture and a three-dimensional poem. Using the 'cadavre exquis' method, it will offer an opportunity to reflect on the elements that haunt our everyday spaces.

We invite participants to bring a sketchbook / notebook and three printed images of architectures related to light or light infrastructures (such as lighthouses, astronomical observatories, street lighting, reflections and more).

The IAF Summer School takes place in Dublin and is presented as part of the LINA programme of architecture events across Europe, co-funded by the European Union.