For Project 20×20 content we have looked to three key sources:

We will collaborate with our community and share ideas relevant and essential to the unprecedented times we live in. This will be an appropriate response to our current reality as we use this time to take stock, research and evaluate the potential of architecture and its connection to society. We expect it to generate conversation and exciting perspectives on our relationship with the spaces that we live in, and the built environment within our newly defined world, and crucially what role architecture plays when we come out of it.

We possess a store of ‘never been seen before’ content that has been patiently waiting for its online debut. This includes filmed interviews with current Irish architects; a performance merging architecture, literature and music; and fresh work created by architects and transition year students just before the schools unexpectedly closed.

We have been burrowing through the IAF’s rich archive of recorded talks, featuring global thinkers on architecture and cities. We will collate this content and gradually reintroduce it to you.

Without doubt, however, the most important part of Project 20×20 will be the bold responses that will be generated by you. How are you reassessing your built environment through the prism of Covid-19? What role does architecture play during an emergency (or situation?) such as this, and how might that role alter in future?

Project 20×20 will help form a new overview of our relationship with architecture and with the communities that architecture serves.

Project 20×20 – A Year Like No Other was the brainchild of Maya McClelland. We would like to acknowledge her inventiveness.