dogma&opinion is a digital newsletter published at type.ie. As part of the IAF’s Housing Unlocked programme, Type is bringing its monthly pamphlet to life with a ‘live magazine’ featuring four distinct themes regarding design in the built environment:

• Working Hard / Hardly Working is a series that presents two examples to emphasise the importance of good design and how considered decisions can make our shared spaces better.
• Future Reference is a time capsule. It covers current developments, debates, and trends in the built environment.
• Present Tense is a series aimed at uncovering perspectives and opinions from experts in their respective fields on the key issues and opportunities facing Ireland’s built environment.
• One Good Idea focuses on the simple, concise discussion of a complex spatial issue. In proposing a single but significant change, a starting point for a broader public discourse is imagined.

Talks will run concurrently from 18:30-20:00, with participants free to join rotating groups to comment, discuss, and learn more about the issues shaping contemporary Irish housing.

Conversations will take place with:

Michael Byrne (School of Social Policy, Social Work and Social Justice, UCD), Rob Curley (architect, Maremoto), and Miriam Fitzpatrick (Urban Design, UCD).

Reserve your free ticket here.

Visitor information:

The gallery is open Tuesday-Friday 12-5pm, Saturday 2-5pm until 21 January 2023 (but closed for the holidays 18 December-2 January).

Admission is free, and no booking is required to see the Housing Unlocked and Workers’ Villages exhibitions.

Free, drop-in tours take place every Tuesday and Thursday, 1pm and Saturday, 3pm.

Accessibility: Entrance is at ground level. Some displays are on the first floor. Please ask the gallery attendants to guide you to the lift if needed. Audio recordings of Housing Unlocked exhibition panel text are available via QR codes on the panels and on the exhibition webpages for the displays.

Housing Unlocked is a partnership between the Irish Architecture Foundation and The Housing Agency, sponsored by The Housing Agency with additional support from The Arts Council, The Land Development Agency, the New European Bauhaus, and venue partner Trinity College Dublin. The exhibition and public programme are curated by the Irish Architecture Foundation.