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 1 with Rory Corr (Office Corr Higgins):
Creative influences can be simultaneously rock solid and constantly in flux. We all have inheritance, strong foundations gained in education, but lessons learned in youth are — and should be — challenged as we grow into our careers. Some drift away, some persist. Some endure despite ourselves. Some are only ever received at one remove, but are equally important.
Rory will take a meandering route through work and life experiences to reflect on these themes and how they impact his work today. By looking specifically at the domestic realm — homes he has lived in and those he has designed for others — ideas of belonging and distance will be explored.
Hosted by Peter O'Grady
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