Hosting this year’s Open House Europe Annual Summit in Dublin, the Irish Architecture Foundation will welcome over 70 delegates from 20+ countries to this exciting two-day conference held on 30-31 January in The Printworks at Dublin Castle. 

Titled The City Invites, the summit will have a private and public programme exploring how accessibility and inclusion can reshape cities into places that are open, vibrant, and welcoming for all.

The Summit will open with This City Imagined, a reflection by the architects who transformed Dublin’s Temple Bar district in 1991, followed by panel discussions on participatory democracy, creative reuse of urban spaces, and universal design homes. Co-organised with Open House Essen and Open House Brno, this Summit is the culmination of the 2024 Open House Europe programme, in which over a dozen festivals across the continent explored accessible and inclusive aspects of our built environment.

Join us and Open House Europe in Dublin for this exceptional gathering of ideas, perspectives and opportunities to shape the cities of tomorrow.

View the programme.

Project Partners

Open House Athens and Thessaloniki (Open House Greece), Open House Bilbao (Asociación Open Urbanity), 48h Open House Barcelona, Open House Brno (Culture and Management Club), Open House Dublin (Irish Architecture Foundation), Open House Essen (Forum Kunst & Architektur), Open House Praha, Open House Roma, Open House Stockholm, Open House Lisboa (Lisbon Architecture Triennale), Open House Slovenia (AFRONT zavod za prostorsko inovativnost), Open House Milano, Open House Tallinn (Mittetulundusühing Eesti Arhitektuurikeskus), Open House Valencia, Open House Vilnius (Architektūros fondas).

Photo: Dublin Port tour, Open House Dublin 2023. Photo by Ste Murray.