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Hometown Architect Webinar
3rd July 2025, from 1pm to 2.15pm
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A Place Belongs Forever To
9 November 2024 10:00 am-6:30 pm
A one-day symposium aimed at promoting, challenging, and expanding interdisciplinary placemaking practice.
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Reimagine Session – Creating a Fundraising Plan
30 October 2024 1:00 pm-2:15 pm
Join us for an insightful Reimagine Session to learn the fundamentals for crafting an effective fundraising plan.
Wednesday, October 30th 2024 - 1pm
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Reimagine Café – This Place Makes Me Feel
Join us in Headford for a Reimagine Café as part of the Something In The Water Community Arts Festival.
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New Life for Old Buildings in Limerick: Onsite Insight
Join the IAF for hands-on advice and technical know-how sessions with contributions from Common Knowledge's Cian Corcoran and architect Caelan Bristow
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New Life for Old Buildings in Limerick: First Steps: No Finance, No Project
Join the IAF for a weekend of essential financial and practical guidance and inspiration for those beginning their journey of breathing new life into old buildings.
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New Life for Old Buildings launch weekend in Limerick – We Are What We Build
Join us for a unique Culture Night experience as we launch our New Life for Old Buildings Limerick series 2024.
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Reimagine Session – The Process of Placemaking
Join us for an inspiring webinar about the Process of Placemaking
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Bog Bothy Building Workshop
This August the IAF & 12th Field join forces with Common Knowledge for an exciting workshop testing methods for building sensitively on the unique landscape of Ireland’s peatlands.
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Reimagine Cafe @ Carlow Arts Festival – The Snug
Meet us in The Snug for the first Reimagine Cafe of 2024.
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Reimagine Session – Storytelling for placemaking
In this session you will hear about the fundamentals of storytelling and explore how to leverage your pitch when communicating with collaborators, community members, local authorities and potential funders.
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Reimagine Café – Spaces for Culture
Join us in Headford as part of the Something In The Water Festival for an informal presentation and discussion on how vacant buildings in town centres can be reimagined for cultural use, facilitated by the Irish Architecture Foundation.
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Reimagine Sessions at Misleór Festival of Nomadic Cultures
Join the Irish Architecture Foundation for "Where Is Our Meeting Point?", a morning of nomadic meeting and placemaking at the Misleór Festival in Galway.
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Reimagine Cafés – Hometown Architect
The Reimagine Café is a community space for all those involved in placemaking and reimagining their built environment.
This August we will have the opportunity to hear from the Hometown Architect teams developing placemaking projects in their localities.
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New Life for Old Buildings – Webinar
This online event invites you to hear from three property owners who have been bringing vacant and underused properties back into use, providing insights into converting commercial to residential, restoring above shop living, and undertaking renovations on a busy main street.
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New Life for Old Buildings – Site Visit Series: Georgian Limerick
Are you in the process of bringing a vacant property back into use? Join us on May 27th in Limerick to view a large scale renovation project and meet other people who are also undertaking this labour of love.
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Reimagine Session – Trauma Informed Placemaking
The Irish Architecture Foundation invites you to join a discussion on Trauma Informed Placemaking as part of our Reimagine Sessions programme. This online event has been guest curated by the Trauma Informed Placemaking project founders, Dr Anita Mckeown and Dr Cara Courage, and will feature five of its global cohort of creative and research practitioners.
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New Life for Old Buildings – Site Visit Series: Cloughjordan
Are you in the process of bringing a vacant property back into use? Join us in Cloughjordan to view a 200 year old stone house renovation project, and meet other people who are also undertaking this labour of love.
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New Life for Old Buildings – Site Visit Series: Dún Laoghaire
Are you in the process of bringing a vacant property back into use? Perhaps you have an empty shop you want to turn into a home? Join us in Dún Laoghaire to view a retail-to-home conversion in progress, and meet other people who are also undertaking this labour of love.
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New Life for Old Buildings
New Life for Old Buildings is an event bringing people together to discuss the future use of vacant buildings in our towns and villages. Join us on February 10th at 3pm, in the Science Gallery, Dublin.
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Reimagine Café – Town Centre First
Our final Reimagine Cafe for the year will be held in the Science Gallery, Dublin as part of the Housing Unlocked exhibition. This cafe will focus on Town Centre First initiatives, include the the IAF's Hometown Architect programme. Speakers in include Mairead Hunt and Philip Crowe.
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Estate: Reimagine Session with Verity Jane Keefe and Dominic Stevens
What is an estate? What could an estate be? This workshop is an exploration of the housing estate, open to everyone including architects, urbanists, artists, community groups and - most importantly - residents.
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Reimagine Workers Villages Colloquium – What Next?
As the Irish Architecture Foundation winds up this phase of the Workers' Village project, we are hosting an event that explores some of the themes connected to the project which will bring together academics, architects, and community members to think together about the legacy and future story of the Bord na Mona villages.
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Workers’ Villages – Exhibition
The Reimagine Workers' Villages exhibition is a celebration of the work and legacy of architect Frank Gibney by the Irish Architecture Foundation, and the contribution of the communities that were created through his innovative Bord na Móna villages.
Public Reception: November 9th, 5.30 pm
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Reimagine at the National Ploughing Championships
The IAF will be hosting an exhibition and series of talks on our Reimagine Workers’ Villages project at the 2022 Ploughing, celebrating the legacy of former Bord na Móna villages designed by architect Frank Gibney.
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Reimagine Café – Funds for Placemaking
The Reimagine Café is a community space for all those involved in placemaking and reimagining their built environment, meeting one Tuesday a month. On September 13th, join the café to hear from organisations that have funds and programmes that focus on building community placemaking assets.
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Reimagine Café – What happens when the shops sell up?
Our July Reimagine Café provides an opportunity for people to come together to reimagine the future of retail in Clonmel town centre as part of the Clonmel Junction Arts Festival.
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Reimagine Headford – The Bloom Room on Main Street
The Bloom Room on Main Street is a physical space to discuss, debate and get involved in the future reimagining of Headford Town Centre. You are all invited to experience this pop-up community space tucked away in a cozy courtyard just off Headford Main Street.
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Reimagine Café – City Parks
The Reimagine Café is a community space for all those involved in placemaking and reimagining their built environment, meeting one Tuesday a month. This cafe event will focus on City Parks, with examples of new and innovative park projects in Dublin and Cork.
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Reimagine Session – Communities in Transition
Communities in Transition - Reimagining Place, Communities and Climate Action. An IAF Reimagine Session and New European Bauhaus Festival online event
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Reimagine Café – Waterford’s placemaking successes
The Reimagine Café is a community space for all those involved in placemaking and reimagining their built environment, meeting once a month. The focus of this café is placemaking successes in County Waterford.
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Carlow Street Craft Workshop
Are you a regular user of College St and the old Dublin Road in Carlow? Join the Irish Architecture Foundation and Architect Deirdre Greaney for a practical and creative workshop that will shine a new light on these streets.
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Reimagine Café – DIY Placemaking
The Reimagine Café is a community space for all those involved in placemaking and reimagining their built environment, meeting on the first Tuesday of every month. The theme for this cafe is DIY Placemaking.
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Reimagine Café – Feeling Safe
How we design our public realm can have a huge impact on the threats we feel in public and how safe we are. The Café is a space for placemakers to share their thoughts and experiences. We particularly welcome those who wish to contribute from a design perspective.
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Reimagine Cloontuskert – Workers’ Villages event, “Festive Feast and Family Treasure Hunt”
Reimagine Cloontuskert - Workers' Villages event, "Festive Feast and Family Treasure Hunt".
Taking place this Saturday 11th December, 12 PM midday
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Reimagine Session #3 – What Could the Post-Covid Town Look Like?
Our third and final Reimagine Session for 2021 poses the question - what could the post-covid town look like?
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Reimagine Café @ Dublin Art Book Fair 2021
Reimagine Cafe: Manuals for Future Places. The Irish Architecture Foundation is hosting its first-ever live Reimagine Café as part of the Dublin Art Book Fair.
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Reimagine Café – Collaboration for Better Places
The Reimagine Café is a community space for all those involved in placemaking and reimagining their built environment, meeting on the last Tuesday of every month.
Our October café will focus on collaboration, and how this can build innovative, impactful and long-lasting improvements in our built environment
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The Creative Bureaucrat
The Creative Bureaucrat: Investing in strategic creativity in Ireland.
This one hour webinar is for those working within a local authority wondering how it’s possible to bring creativity into strategic planning in a meaningful way.
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Reimagine Café – Meanwhile Use Spaces
Our September café will focus on Meanwhile Use Spaces, a way of creating a temporary use for a place until a longer plan is in place.
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Reimagine Session #2 – Bring Back Main Street
This edition of Reimagine Sessions focuses on the centre of towns, areas that currently face major challenges as we undergo a shift in how we shop, work, travel and live. How can we reimagine a future for our town cores in the face of online retail and dereliction? Could remote working allow us to turn away from long commutes, and refocus our attention on our towns as places for social interaction and connection? What needs to happen for more people to return to Main Street living?
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Reimagine Café – Dereliction and Heritage at Risk
For our August edition, we will be focusing on the critical issue of dereliction in our communities, with widespread impact visually, socially, economically as well as representing a huge loss of our built heritage. If you would like to join us to discuss this topic or to share an example from your own area, join us on ZOOM on Tuesday, August 31st. We would love to hear about successful strategies and case studies, of buildings brought back to life and vibrant, lived-in streets.
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Reimagine Café – City Villages
The theme for our next Cafe is "City Villages". We want to celebrate these villages - to hear about why they are special and what we can learn from them as we develop new communities. This cafe is at 1 pm on July 27th.
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Reimagine Café – Rural Placemaking
With the launch of the Government of Ireland's Our Rural Future - Rural Development Policy 2021 - 2025, we are making "Rural Futures" the theme of June's Reimagine Cafe, on June 29th.
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Reimagine Session – From Mini Forests to Pocket Parks
"From Mini Forests to Pocket Parks - Greening Interventions in Public Space". We have invited three speakers to reflect on the value of these small and valuable spaces, and consider ways that we can design our surroundings with the health of our bodies, communities and planet in mind.
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Reimagine Café – Age Friendly Places
The Reimagine Café is a community space for all those involved in placemaking and reimagining their built environment, meeting on the last Tuesday of every month. For our second Café we’ll be sharing reports from around Ireland related to the theme of "Age Friendly Places" in quick-fire 3-minute slots.
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