Architecture at the Edge Festival

01-09.10.2022

Galway and West of Ireland

For its 6th edition, Architecture at the Edge invites architects, artists, academics, activists and others to submit projects, practices and perspectives to contribute to the Festival aim: to showcase architectural projects that are conceived through ‘acts of repair’.

What are the practical, architectural, and social features of our communities in need of repair? How can we remake the built environment to become more diverse and socially and environmentally sustainable? 

In everyday usage the term ‘repair’ can mean to ‘fix’, ‘mend’, ‘renovate’ and ‘restore’. Additionally, it can mean to ‘have recourse to’, or ‘to return’, as in the phrase ‘repairing to’. Stretching across this web of synonyms lies a multitude of differences, but fundamental for architecture today is the actual need to rethink the construction and production of how we build.  

Repair aims to expand the point of view from the object of architecture, to the way it operates in its context, advocating a role for architecture that catalyses or actively engages with the environmental, social and cultural repair of the places it is a part of.

Galway Events

Mayo Events

Architects

Valerie Mulvin, Tom dePaor, Plattenbau Studio, Islander Architects, 7L Architects, Canice Architects, Helena McElmeel Architects, Mark Stevens Architects, Stephen Foley Architects, A2 Architects, Pasparakis Friel Architects, O'Donnell+Tuomey 

Film

Klostės / Folds Director: Aideen Barry
We left you this Director: Yvonne Mc Guinness
On being there A Gall film by Peter Maybury

Talks

Urban Lab Galway, Andrew Karvonen, Julia Corwin, Tim Edensor, Mark Justin Rainey, Valerie Mulvin, Helena McElmeel, Canice Architects, Jim Higgins ( Heritage Offficer GCC), Fergal McNamara (7L Architects). 

Exhibitions

Interpreting Landscape: Tim Robinson and the West of Ireland
Groundwork Broken Stones

Architecture at the Edge would like to thank all of our funders, sponsors and supporters for their help in making this festival possible. We would like to thank you and our audience and hope that you enjoyed exploring the many ways architecture transforms our lives.

Ba mhaith leis an Ailtireacht ag an Edge buíochas a ghabháil lenár gcuid maoinithe, urraitheoirí agus lucht tacaíochta ar fad as a gcabhair chun an fhéile seo a dhéanamh. Ba mhaith linn buíochas a ghabháil leat féin agus lenár lucht éisteachta agus tá súil agam go mbainfeadh tú taitneamh as iniúchadh a dhéanamh ar an iomad bealach a athraíonn an ailtireacht ár saol. Thank You