Design Lab
Architecture at the Edge (AATE), learning programme Design Lab pairs schools and creatives to work with students on an innovative and inspiring architecture education programme. The programme involves hands-on designing and making using real- life process and collaborating with leading practitioners and current students in the field. It enables and empowers each student to participate in a genuine creative, design process that results in real design proposition for a space or place.
AATE believes all young people should have the opportunity to shape their built environment. Through our collaborations Design Lab offers unique, hands-on education programmes for children and young adults, which enable them to directly create full scale places and spaces.
Architecture at the Edge (AATE) is seeking expressions of interest from schools, architects and other creatives to participate in the programme 2025 -2026.
The aim of these bursary awards is to provide an opportunity and support for creative practitioners from or living in Galway City and County to develop a workshop-based schools program that invites young people to be part of a creative design process that results in a real design for a space or place to build. Over the course of the program, young people will not only learn about, but take part in and manage the design and build process from start to finish. With the guidance of our Design Lab ambassadors, students will channel their ideas and inspiration into creating a real, tangible, design for a large- scale build.