Facilitators:

Isoilde Dillon (Housing Unlocked Advisor, RIAI Universal Design Taskforce); Nicola Ryan (Studio Red Architects, who were highly commended in the RIAI Universal Design category for their adapted ‘House at Chapelizod’, 2022); Michelle Thunder (CEO, St. John of God Housing association); and Shelley Gaynor (Peer Mentor, Independent Living Movement Ireland).

Please note this event is now fully booked.

Visitor information:

The gallery is open Tuesday-Friday 12-5pm, Saturday 2-5pm until 17 February 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.

Photo: Building Societies installation by Tom Cookson and Sarah Carroll at Housing Unlocked. Photo by Ste Murray.