AATE Festival Film + Architecture Workshop

Josephine Michau, CAFx with Lemonot, (Sabrina Morreale, Lorenzo Perri).

Date: Saturday 30th September – Saturday 07 October

Time: Daily 10:00am - 17:00pm

Location The Mick Lally Theatre

FREE but prebook is essential  as places are limited [Applications closed ]

About

Architecture at the Edge and Copenhagen Architecture Festival have partnered up to organize a film & architecture workshop in response to the AATE23 thematic provocation of ‘re-mapping’, focusing on filmmaking and environmentally conscious, socially inclusive design, architecture and urban planning.

PROGRAM

During the one-week program, through lectures, group exercises and guided explorations of Galway, we invite participants to response to the AATE23 thematic provocation of ‘re-mapping’. Participants are introduced to practices of investigative observation, archival research, and new ways of mapping the city - interrogating issues of land ownership, material extraction, environmental, ecological and physical qualities of the landscape but as well considering the human interactions, the convivial strategies of resistance created by citizens, and apply this knowledge to create your own short film documenting or addressing design solutions found in the built, grown and/or planned environment of Galway city.

Aided by experimental, tactical and speculative methodologies, we will explore the urban environment through multiple scales - at the scale of the body, the object, the building, the urban, and the territory.

After developing the concept for your film in the first sessions with the guidance of international guest lectures, you will explore the process of filmmaking, gaining concrete knowledge about organizing, filming and editing your work, as well as creating a relevant, dramaturgically well-functioning story. Professional filmmakers and editors, Conor Horgan, Treasa O’Brien, Connie Farrell and others, will instruct you and assist you in the production of a maximum 3-minute-long film.

The course is open to anyone interested in the intersection of film and architecture - students and professionals alike, with a background in a relevant field of film, visual arts, photography, architecture, design, urban planning, anthropology, ethnology, social sciences and humanities. Participants are expected to have a basic knowledge of film production. 

All the films produced during the workshop will be premiered at the PALAS cinema on Saturday 07th October at 16:30pm

Faith in the Future

Presented by Beibhinn Delaney

Workshops:  29/09, 03/10, 07/10, 14:30 - 16:30

Exhibition: 29 September – 08 October, Open 12:00 - 17:00

Location St John's Church of Ireland, Church Hill, Ballinasloe, Co. Galway H53 XP90

This event is FREE and open to the public. There is no booking required, but places are limited and will operate on a first come first serve basis. 

About

A close look at revitalising church buildings; an exhibition of architectural drawings and a series of hands-on wool-felting workshops at St. John’s Church, Ballinasloe.

This exhibition presents a study of St. John’s “Church on the Hill” through survey work, mapping, and archival material, alongside exploratory drawings of church repurposing projects in Flanders, Belgium. Additionally, as a form of church revitalisation, a series of wool-felting workshops will take place, where up to 20 participants will be guided through the process of wet-felting a large-scale textile artwork together to be displayed within the church as part of the exhibition. No previous experience is needed - the workshops are intended to be inclusive and convivial, bringing people together for conversation, storytelling, and exploring a shared vision for the future of St. John’s.

The project is led by Beibhinn Delaney, in collaboration with Marie-Caroline Kawa and Lara Clifford, and is based on previous research supported by the Arts Council Agility Award 2022 and assisted Prof. Sven Sterken and Charlotte Ardui of KU Leuven, whose expertise is in adaptive reuse of Flemish churches.

Supported by:

Galway County Council.

Donegal Yarns have kindly provided locally sourced Galway sheep's wool for the workshops.

‘Re-Thinking the Coastal Edge in the face of Climate Change’

Helen McFadden

Exhibition: 11am - 6pm, 29th September – 08 October 

at the Festival Printworks Gallery

Presentation & Panel Discussion with;

Dr.Anna Ryan Moloney, University of Limerick (SAUL)

Dr. Steve Larkin, architect, musician and lecturer at SABE, TU Dublin

Ailbhe Cunningham, architect, researcher and lecturer

Alice Clarke, architect and co-founder BothAnd Group

Dr. Kevin Donovan, architect and lecturer at SABE, TU Dublin

2:00pm – 3:30pm, Saturday 30 September , 2023

at the The Mick Lally Theatre, Druid ln,.

All welcome!

About

The shore, as Seamus Heaney once wrote, is where 'things overflow the brim of the usual', and that brim is the heart of this project. 
Located in the intertidal-zone where land meets sea are the coastal wetlands at Mulranny, Co.Mayo. Architecture graduate and native of the area, Helen McFadden is conducting a PhD research-through-design project (UL) which is building on a M.Arch thesis (TUD), with the local community, and invites the public to explore “re-mapping” as a means of “rethinking the construction of the coastal edge”. 
The brim, in its Germanic roots, meant the turbulence of a breaking sea, a place where the world roars. Owing to climate change, habitats at the brim are being lost at a rapid pace and, analogous to other landscapes, the coastline of Mulranny in County Mayo is hanging in the balance. At the Festival Printworks Gallery, a presentation of the ongoing project will be made by Helen to make visible the dwindling entanglements holding our landscapes together. The presentation will be followed by an interdisciplinary panel discussion – with - to strengthen these ties by initiating a discussion about the future of the coastline. 

This is part of a series of events to be held in Mulranny and Galway as part of the Architecture at the Edge Festival 2023 which will communicate and discuss Helen’s research. 

EVENT 01 - PRIMARY SCHOOL WORKSHOP, 
13th September, Mulranny National School 

EVENT 02 - COMMUNITY WORKSHOP, 
16th September, 1:00 – 6:00, Mulranny Arts  

EVENT 03 - GUIDED WALK OF MULRANNY COAST, 
17th September, 1:00, Meet at Greenway 

EVENT 04 - TALKS AND PANEL DISCUSSIONS, 
20th September, 2:30 – 7:30, Mulranny Park Hotel 

EVENT 05 - EXHIBITION OF PROJECT, 
29th September - 8th of October, Galway Printworks  

All above events are FREE but prebook is essential for presentation and panel discussion in Galway on 30th Sept.

Note: Spots are limited, once the eventbrite fills up we encourage those interested to join a waitlist by emailing info@architectureattheedge.com. If you sign up and can no longer make it, please let us know so we can give the spot to someone else.

With thanks to the following for their support:

University of Limerick (@sci_engul), SABE Technological University Dublin (@architecture_tudublin), Mulranny DZ Group, Mulranny Community Futures (@mulrannytourism), Climate Action Group at Mayo County Council (@mayo.ie), Mulranny Park Hotel (@mulrannyparkhotel ),Mulranny National School, Mulranny Arts (@mulrannyarts), LIFE IP Wild Atlantic Nature (@wan_lifeip), Marine Institute (@marineinstituteireland), Irish Research Council, Mayo Dark Skies (@mayodarkskies), Ailbhe Cunningham (@ailbhe_see), Kevin Donovan, BothAnd Group (@bothandgroup), Atlantic Technological University (@atu_ie ),ArtsCouncil Ireland (@artscouncilireland).