The Housing Incident Room
In collaboration with the architect Dominic Stevens, IAF presents ‘The Housing Incident Room’; an architect led workshop that draws on the systems and structures of A Fair Land in which to produce A Housing Manifesto. The drive of The Housing Incident Room, is to explore the long history of radical thinking on social, political, environmental and architectural issues, as an essential framework to respond to urgent questions on how to move forward with creating housing in Ireland.
Invited workshop leaders will draw on A Fair Lands proposition for a new order and system of living brought on by re-invention and fuelled by self-determination, to address the biggest issues facing society in terms of the built environment, architecture and housing.
Workshop findings and agreed goals will be compiled into a Zine designed by Paul Guinan, titled The Housing Manifesto, to be launched at a later date.
Sharing the spirit of A Fair Land, The Incident Room thus becomes a place of industry and re-invention, through its production of The Housing Manifesto.
Join us on Saturday 27 August at IMMA for:
11.00am-4.00pm/ Drop In Conversations
All day from 11am-4pm, people can drop by and talk to the curators Dominic Stevens and Nathalie Weadick, see teams at work, make observations, comments and interact.
4.00pm -5.00pm/ Public Pin UP
Following an intensive industrious day developing manifestos the teams will Pin UP their ideas, drawings, plans and present to each other and also to the public who are invited to respond to five newly formed provocations on Housing.
Curators Dominic Stevens, Architect Nathalie Weadick, Director of Irish Architecture Foundation Producers Irish Architecture Foundation (IAF) Commissioners IMMA
Teams #1
Emmett Scanlon, Architect & Researcher Laurence Lord, Architect, Architecture Practice + Experimentation Dorothy Smith, Visual Artist Alan Driscoll, Irish Housing Network Niamh McDonald, Irish Housing Network Nathan O Donnell, Writer #2
Brian Barber, Graduate Architect, Nósworkshop Joseph Mackey, Architect & StudioTutor UCD Paul Mooney, Chartered Surveyor, Benchmark Property Stephen Coyne, Urban Planner Noel Cahill, National Economic & Social Council
#3
Rae Moore, Architect & Lecturer Willie White, Dublin Theatre Festival Elizabeth Gaynor, Architect Brain Gallwey, Research Officer DCC Maude Hendricks, Theatre Maker #4
Claire McManus, Architect, Open Architecture Manuel Diaz, Urban Design Dermot Lacy, Politician Aideen Lowery, Architect Eoin McElroy, Architect #5
Tara Kennedy, Architect & Researcher John McLaughlin, Architect & Academic Tracy O’Brien, Photographic Artist & Housing Activist Ben Readman, Artist & co-founder Block T
Support Team Paul Guinan, Graphic Designer Ste Murray, Photographer Sile Stewart, IAF
This talk is part of A Fair Land: Reinvent/Discuss/Debate, daily talks by project participants and invited speakers to prompt discussion about the function of creativity in our lives, alternative perspectives on living, and the elemental things we need in our individual systems.
A Fair Land 12 – 28 August 2016 This year IMMA is collaborating with Grizedale Arts who, following a period of research and development in IMMA’s residency programme, will create an extraordinary new project, in collaboration with IMMA, that examines the ‘usefulness’ of art by inviting artists and creatives to take over the iconic IMMA courtyard this summer. Echoing the role artists played in creating in articulating a new vision for Ireland pre-1916, A Fair Land will be developed and activated by a range of artists and creative practitioners with the aim of creating new, artist-led visions for a functioning future society.