As part of a new series of conversations, hosted by Niall Maxwell from Rural Office for Architecture, creative practitioners are invited to discuss their own practice and engagement strategies to inform how Galway may host its own summer school in 2021. This year's festival theme explores the topic of boundaries, and this series of conversations explore the progressive practice of participatory design and the role professionals play in removing boundaries to community participation through innovative engagement strategies. The first conversation brings together three individuals working in England, Wales and Ireland who have developed their own specific praxis relating to research, community engagement, education and outreach: Fiona Macdonald, Head of Learning at the Design Museum, London and one half of Matt &Fiona, offering young people a chance to ask how their built environment might be improved, empowering them to bring that vision to life; Owen Griffiths, a social practice artist based in Wales, working with food systems, land use and collaborative processes; and Tom Keeley who runs Keeley Travel, "a travel agency that doesn't sell holidays", working between architectures, geographies, landscapes and histories through practice-based research, who is currently working on a participatory project in Ireland along the border between North and South.
For Architecture at the Edge Festival 2020, Rural Office for Architecture will explore the topic of boundaries in the context of progressive practice. To discuss the role of the profession in changing normative behavior for engagement strategies in order to remove boundaries to community participation.
The conversation is designed to set the scene for a summer school or design/build project in Galway for AATE 2021. This will be the first in a series of conversations relating to the topic, which will be hosted during the autumn.
ARCHITECTURE AT THE EDGE
Architecture at the Edge (AATE) is a Galway based not-for-profit organisation dedicated to the promotion of architecture as culture. The leading voice for excellence in the built environment in the west of Ireland, Architecture at the Edge investigates the role and impact of architecture in our lives and the world we live in, demonstrating how design enhances the quality of life, while addressing important issues of society through responsible architecture. [ Ссылка ]
