UCD Earth Institute Democracy & Environment Series III: ‘Building Stories: Irish Towns, Vacancy and Data’

The upcoming seminar session, 'Building Stories: Irish towns, vacancy and data' will report on and discuss the implications of SFI-funded research that explores the generation of reliable and dynamic baseline data on the likelihood of vacancy as a mechanism for managing the efficient use of our built environment. This research acknowledges the potential for the reuse of existing building stock to provide much needed homes, reduce the embodied carbon of the construction industry, and contribute to the revitalisation of town centres for sustainable communities.

The seminar will open with welcome remarks by Earth Institute Director Professor Eoin O'Neill and feature Dr Philip Crowe (Co-founder UCD Centre for Irish Towns -CfIT- and Assistant Professor in the UCD School of Architecture, Planning and Environmental Policy and the UCD School of Civil Engineering) with the presentation ‘Building Stories: Irish towns, vacancy and data’. This will be followed by a panel discussion with the participation of Ali Harvey (Principal Planner & Project Manager with Nicholas O’Dwyer Ltd) and ​​Dr Gavin McArdle (UCD School of Computer Science and CeDAR), where the audience will be able to engage in a Q&A session, and participants will be able to make connections with similar perspectives around the theme of vacancy in Irish towns and the role of vacant properties in sustainable town regeneration.

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About the 'Democracy and the Environment' Seminar Series

The UCD Earth Institute presents the 'Democracy and the Environment Series', a sequence of seminars and discussions focused on the role of democracy and the environment, citizen trust in public institutions, and the sustainability agenda in the context of the local and presidential elections.