05.04.25
Event Information
Event Information
Material Echoes: IAF Summer School 2025
Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Temple Bar, Dublin 2, Ireland
05.04.25
10:00-17:00
Free
Booking required
The Irish Architecture Foundation’s 6th annual Summer School, Material Echoes, is a day of participatory workshops and creative experimentation.
Taking place on Saturday 5 April 2025 in Dublin, this full-day event is free and open to anyone with curiosity about architecture and the city, with particular relevance for architects, artists and creative practitioners of all disciplines.
The IAF Summer School offers participants the opportunity for collective exchange and collaborative making during two guided workshops. With a focus on playful interpretations of the city and new modes of representation, we invite you to join in as we discuss, make and create!
The workshops will be led by design and research collective Rubble (Ireland, Spain, UK) and Lucille Leger and Jacques-Marie Ligot (France). All are featured LINA Fellows, and the IAF Summer School is presented as part of the LINA programme of architecture events taking place across Europe.
This full-day event will feature two linked workshops. Participants are encouraged to join both workshops.
10:00-13:00 – ‘good for nothings’ workshop with Rubble
‘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. How do we think about the aesthetics of reuse, both of materials and implicitly the ideologies which existing forms and places represent?
Together we will make a wilfully purposeless ephemeral scenography. Freed from function we can explore narrative and performative building practices, those which connect the inhabitant to the city through the act of interpreting it and altering it, considering the potential for new and playful aesthetics which arise from processes of repurposing.
Over the course of the workshop we will discuss these ideas collectively and consider how the way the city is built impacts our daily enjoyment of it. 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.
13:00-14:00 – lunch (not provided)
14:00-17:00 – ‘Learning with Ghosts’ workshop with Jacques-Marie Ligot and Lucille Leger
This workshop, inspired by Ligot and Leger’s Periple Duet residency-on-the-move, 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 is free to attend, but booking is essential as places are limited and are allocated on a first come, first served basis.
Booking is now open and will close on 31 March, 18:00 or when we reach capacity (whichever is earlier). Reserve your place.
The IAF Summer School is open to all, including professionals, academics, graduates and third-level students. It will be of particular interest to architects, designers, artists, cultural producers and anyone with an interest in architecture, sustainability, design and the built environment. CPD points are available for registered architects.
No particular skills are required to participate in this event.
Participants are encouraged to join both workshops.
The Irish Architecture Foundation endeavours to offer programmes that are accessible and inclusive to all. The booking form invites you to tell us if you have any accessibility requirements and what especially interests you about this Summer School. Your answers will help us with planning.
The IAF Summer School forms part of IAF’s contribution to the LINA programme of architecture events all over Europe.
IAF is a member organisation of LINA, a European network of 34 institutions working at the intersection of architecture and other fields related to spatial culture. LINA’s goal is to help steer the architectural sector towards clean and circular practices through Learning, Interacting and Networking in Architecture and by supporting emerging professionals (competitively selected LINA Fellows) with innovative and forward-looking projects.
LINA is coordinated by the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia and co-funded by the Creative Europe initiative of the European Union.
Each year LINA has Open Calls for emerging professionals to join their programmes as LINA Fellows. Becoming a LINA fellow offers you opportunities to collaborate with LINA member organisations all over Europe. Please follow this link to learn more about last year’s Open Call. The next LINA Open Call will be announced in May 2025.
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Rubble collective was founded by María Daly Bermúdez, Dominic Daly, David Hurley, Nicolas Howden and Emily Jones in 2022, after graduating from University College Dublin. They are currency based in Madrid, Barcelona, London and Dublin. As part of LINA, Rubble is also running a three-day workshop with Barleti University, Tirana, and working with Theatrum Mundi, Paris, on a publication entitled Staging Ground. Rubble are also members of gaplab, the IAF’s programme of mentoring and support for emerging cultural producers in architecture.
Lucille Leger is an artist and curator, and Jacques-Marie Ligot is an architect, researcher, and teacher. Both are currently based in Paris. Supported by LINA, they will travel through France, Portugal and Spain to Ireland, visiting Architecture at the Edge in Galway, and then stopping in Dublin as part of Periple Duet, a residency-on-the-move with Lisbon Architecture Triennale. They will also collaborate with Architektūros Fondas in Vilnius, Lithuania.
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