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These five rural towns have been awarded €10,000 each to tackle vacancy and dereliction and increase accessibility

Are you in the process of bringing a vacant property back into use? Join a new peer network to share learning and experience.

This IAF open call for new Reimagine placemaking projects invites community groups to apply in partnership with an architect who has a connection to their town or village.

The IAF are pleased to announce four new projects selected to join the Reimagine programme.

Exploring the impact of minimal home sizes and housing policies on the lives of communities and artists.

Creative Places Tuam, led by Create, have announced a brand-new commission opportunity for collaborative and socially engaged artists and/or arts collective.

In collaboration with the London Festival of Architecture, Irish Architecture Foundation will host a live, virtual panel discussion entitled Together We Care About Public Spaces.

The layers of fabric unveiled at Clandon Park in Surrey by a destructive fire in 2015 have proved a remarkable showcase of eighteenth-century building techniques.

Hosted conversation in Loughrea and public consultation in Letterkenny on evening of Friday 18 September

Rathmullan-based architects Pasparakis Friel have been announced as the successful design team for Reimagine... Letterkenny.

The Walks in Loughrea set for an environmentally focused architectural installation.

Our designers at Unthink have completed the hoarding displaying the narrative for the process of this exciting community place-making initiative.

The 18th December 2019 marked the launch of the public consultation process on a new National Policy on Architecture

This process is open to the public until the 13th of March 2020. Have Your Say!

The Play Park, Ballyfermot community-led design project will break ground in August!

Reimagine... aims to highlight the importance of people using architecture and design to take ownership, increase use and heighten their enjoyment of the space that surrounds them.

The IAF worked with Imagine Dundrum as part of our Reimagine… programme of nationwide community engagement projects, funded by Creative Ireland.

Open House Dublin 2018 will soon arrive in the city and we're looking for volunteers

Led by architect/curator Emmett Scanlon, photographer Aisling McCoy and made in collaboration with graphic designer Paul Guinan, Home On The Grange is a community-based public art project that aims to harness our latent but often unacknowledged creativity in homemaking. Even in seemingly identical houses, people occupy, use and creatively appropriate the places they inhabit with an often modest but typically sophisticated enthusiasm and they do this over time and on a daily basis. This process reflects their individual histories and personalities but is rarely discussed in this way.

Summer update on the proposed Play & Skate Park at Le Fanu Lawns in Ballyfermot.

A conference exploring participatory practice and projects both at home and abroad.

Anne Bedos is a social entrepreneur known for cycling and community development in Ireland. Originally from France, Bedos moved to Ireland in 2004 and founded Rothar in 2008.

Naoise Nunn was living in Belfast, working odd jobs after finishing a politics degree before doing a “little bit of work” on Sky Cat Laughs comedy festival in 1996.

A design agency with their finger in all of the creative pies: architecture, furniture, exhibition making and photography.

Douglas Carson is co-founder of Carson and Crushell Architects which he runs with his wife Rosaleen Crushell who began their collaboration in 2003.

Independent curators Rosie Lynch and Hollie Kearns are based at Callan Workhouse Union, Co. Kilkenny.

Emmet Condon is Creative Director of Homebeat, a music promotion and production outfit with a particular interest in non traditional spaces. Homebeat started off as gigs in your living room.

A ground breaking new commission is now open to the public and is already proving popular, especially with the town’s youngest citizens.

Manchán Magan is a writer, traveller and television maker. He has made over 30 travel documentaries focusing on issues of world culture and globalization.

We are delighted to announce that the Place Shapers project in Blanchardstown won the Participatory Planning Award at the National Planning Awards 2013-2014.

The children of Killybegs town will soon have an exciting new Play Space as a ground breaking new commission gets underway.