The 2011 Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space has issued a call for participants for "What is a Theatre next?", an 11-day open laboratory in the architecture section of the festival. Asking "what is a theatre now and what could it be next?" the Open Laboratory will see selected participants collaborate and work with renowned international experts in theatre architecture, theor ...

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CUBE, Centre for the Built Environment has announced its annual open submission competition. Artists, architects and designers are invited to submit work that responds to the theme of the urban built environment. This year's selectors are Peter Kelly (Editor of Blueprint Magazine, Office for Subversive Architecture and Manchester Modernist Society. The most outstanding project will be aw ...

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Objective The RIAI wants to promote the ideas and problem-solving abilities of Architects and develop a number of research projects that will provide solutions to problems in the built environment, whether existing or impending and to give Architects the opportunity take the initiative by providing solutions. Architects are in a unique position given their training, which is based on strate ...

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Art in Slack Spaces is a self-published text by curator and collaborator Annette Moloney which discusses how artists and practitioners are using vacant high street shops and commercial buildings to set up temporary or pop-up galleries and studio spaces. The document aims to provoke further discussion and dialogue about what one curator sees as a circumstantial shift in Irish contemporary ar ...

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What is the role of the cultural and creative industries and how can they contribute to the other sectors of society? The European Commission has asked for our opinions and Temple Bar Cultural Trust is coordinating the response from the Cultural and Creative sectors in Ireland. They want to know what you think! Do you have any ideas, examples of best practice, or opinions you'd like to share? ...

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Who should design a better Dublin? How can Dublin become a World Design Capital? People who live in a world design capital understand that every part of the city - how it works, looks and feels - is designed. They know the difference between good and bad design. They know that good design costs less than bad design. People who live in a world design capital expect design that enriches and i ...

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The first annual LIFELINE Broombridge to Broadstone spring clean and biodiversity study will take place on Sunday 27 June. Start times: Morning session: 10 am Afternoon session: 3 pm Meeting place: the Broadstone Bus Depot This event will provide an opportunity for members and friends of the communities who live along the historic Great Midwestern Railway Line cutting to meet and expl ...

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In September of 2009, Design Twentyfirst Century, a not for profit charitable organisation, ran a pilot called Designing Dublin: Learning to Learn (DD:LL). Structured as a twelve week learning project, it involved seventeen multidisciplinary people. Half were volunteers who were looking for new ways of learning and half County Council employees who were seconded from their positions to lear ...

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A new International Award scheme has been developed to recognise initiatives that help children and young people to understand architecture and the built environment. There will be awards for ‘Schools', ‘Institutions', ‘Written Media' and ‘Audio-Visual Media'. The RIAI, as the professional body for architects in Ireland, announces the launch of the Irish Nomination Process and invites ...

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Street Feast is a new national event to celebrate community. It's a not-for-profit, all-for-fun, do-it-yourself celebration. Street Feast will be hosted by you and your neighbours, and repeated in communities all over Ireland, at the same time. This 18th of July at around 12noon, communities across Ireland will sit down for a feast to celebrate community. They can be anywhere really - out o ...

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