2024 Programme, Placemaking, Reimagine, Talk
Reimagine Session: Storytelling for Placemaking
16.05.24
17.05.24-18.05.24
Event Information
Event Information
The City Unknown: IAF Summer School 2024, with Spolka
Irish Architecture Foundation, Bachelors Walk, North City, Dublin 1, Ireland
17.05.24-18.05.24
Friday 17 May 2024
18:30-20:00
Saturday 18 May 2024
10:00-17:00
The City Unknown: IAF Summer School 2024 continues with Spolka at IAF House, 17-18 May.
Conversation: On Friday evening Spolka (Viktória Mravčáková and Zuzana Révészová) will introduce their collective practice, inviting discussion and debate.
Friday 17 May 2024
18:30-20:00
Workshop: In Saturday’s workshop participants will engage in collaborative drawing and mapping in Dublin city, with Spolka (Viktória Mravčáková and Zuzana Révészová).
Saturday 18 May 2024
10:00-17:00
Register for The City Unknown with Spolka.
A call for participants for The City Unknown, the IAF Summer School 2024.
“In-between collecting and drawing“ – Spolka’s contribution to The City Unknown – is an invitation to generate a visual narrative through drawing and mapping activities in Dublin’s city centre, with a focus on what holds collective relevance for participants. Employing cartological explorations as a medium for engagement, this workshop will examine universal urban issues beyond the visible.
The IAF Summer School is open to all, including professionals, academics, graduates and students. It will be of particular relevance to architects, artists, activists, creatives, cultural practitioners, community workers, urbanists, geographers, film-makers and anyone with an interest in architecture, sustainability, design and the built environment. CPD points are available for participating registered architects.
The City Unknown is free to attend, but booking is essential as places are limited.
Please note that Friday’s Conversation and Saturday’s Workshop are interdependent, so we suggest that you register for both days and attend on both days.
The IAF Summer School is in three parts. It also runs on 11-12 May with METASITU (in-person at IAF House, Dublin) and on 14 May with continentale (online).
It is possible to book for one, two, or all three parts of the IAF Summer School. Please book for each event separately.
Read the full announcement for an overview of the IAF Summer School programme.
All IAF Summer School events are presented as part of the LINA Programme.
Viktória Mravčáková and Zuzana Révészová are LINA Fellows 2024/25 with Spolka’s collective project, Never Never School.
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 responding to this year’s Open Call.
Photo: Corso pro nás 2022 by Aleš Bárta, courtesy of Spolka.
Spolka was founded in 2016 in Košice as an informal collective of six young women from the fields of architecture, sociology, and urban planning, united by their interest in their hometown. Building on the values of care and sustainability, Spolka has been engaged in urban topics ever since, working on projects across core themes of care, participatory planning, and education in Central Europe. In 2022, the organisation established Spolka Studio, which implements the values of care and sustainability in projects in collaboration with various NGOs and municipalities. Part of Spolka’s critical approach is to see urban planning as a political tool and responsibility, including curatorial activities and the cultivation of education – professional or popular, formal or informal. This is also where the focus of Spolka’s non-profit activities lies – to nurture, and to experiment with inclusive, peer-to-peer, dialogical, and future-oriented ways of learning.
Photo by Barbora Bačová
Viktória Mravčáková is an architect and urbanist trained in Košice, Prague, and Kyoto with a divergent mind and love for cooking and gardening. For several years she worked at the Office of Public Space in Prague’s Institute of Planning and Development in diverse roles as an architect, project manager, researcher, and curator.
Photo by Urban Cerjak
Zuzana Révészová graduated in art theory, law, sociology and regional economics with a research focus on culture-led urban development. She worked for the National Center for Culture and Further Education and for Creative Industry Košice as a project manager and researcher. She enjoys demanding theories, conversations with people, and working with data of all kinds.
Photo by Gréta Čandová
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