About the Open Call 

For its 7th edition, The Architecture at the Edge Open Call is looking for visionary ideas and examples on Re-Mapping: What are the practical, architectural, and social features of the  lived environment in need of representation?

“Re-Mapping ” captures the invisible networks and connections between the places that are meaningful to us.

We invite you to make a map of your own devising which will appeal to anyone interested in how we visualize our worlds, physical or abstract, real or imagined.

We are searching for new perspectives from those interested in social geography, social policy, social justice and social change.

Selected submissions will be exhibited during the Architecture at the Edge Festival, 29 September - 08 October 2023, when everyone comes together to celebrate our built environment, its places and people.

The maximum allowance available of €2,000 includes the fee for your time, production costs, and contributing to the marketing and evaluation of the festival.

To reach the broadest possible audience, the piece should be accessible and created to provoke dialogue around the theme.

Deadline: 07 July 2023.

We'll select 3 projects and invite them to present at our Festival in Galway in October.

AATE recognises the positive value of a diverse production team reflective of our shared built environment. We welcome and encourage applications from people of all genders, backgrounds and abilities. Applicants need not have gone to university or be professionally qualified. Applicants must have an interest in architecture and the built environment and can be based in the Rep. of Ireland, UK or European Union.

Applicants will be invited to undertake the following work:

  • To conceptualise, programme and produce new cultural work for the AATE Festival 2023 Core Programme in October responding to this year’s thematic of ‘Re_Mapping’’ by means of a small self-directed budget,  provided by Architecture at the Edge.

  • To coordinate and project manage that work

  • To manage monies effectively and within budget for that work.

  • To develop and produce associated graphics and branding for that work

  • To undertake appropriate social media posting and audience engagement for that work

  • To undertake appropriate event management and logistics work

  • To present, host and be front of the house for the new work

Application requirements

  • Name

  • Email address

  • Why you want to apply for the AATE Open Call programme 2023 (250-300 words max)

  • Give us an example of an idea or project responding to the AATE Festival 2023 theme of Re-Mapping  that you would potentially like to produce through the AATE Open Call programme (100-200 words max)

  • You are asked to provide an outlined budget which must include any technical equipment that you might need.

  • Single page A4 CV

Application and Programme Timeline

  • Wednesday  07th June 2023 – AATE Open Call 2023 launched

  • Friday  07th July 2023 - Open call for the AATE 2023 programme closes at 12 noon

  • Friday 14th July 2022- Invitations issued to shortlisted participants

  • July & August 2022 - Production time

  • Friday 29th September  - Sunday 08th October 2022- AATE Festival 2023

Frequently Asked Questions

  • Who can apply to the AATE Open Call programme? Open to anyone interested in a progressive future for architecture - can be individual or a group!

  • Do applicants have to be architecture students or architects? No, applicants do not have to have gone to university or be professionally qualified and can have training in any discipline

  • Are successful applicants paid for their work? The €2,000 programme budget is to be self-directed by the recipients- how this is spent is up to the small team with advanced sanction from Architecture at the Edge. AATE is a volunteer-led organisation and encourages recipients to consider using some of their budget to pay themselves a small fee.

  • What can the new cultural work for the AATE Festival 2022 Core Programme be? The applicant determines what this cultural work is, with a mixture of creative outputs encouraged, and could include an exhibition, series of in-situ events, performance, written work, an installation...anything related to the built environment!

    We are very excited to launch this open call and look forward to receiving your applications.

Thank you! and good luck!