Design Lab/ Showcase Exhibition and Live Creative Workshops

Printworks, 15 Market Street, Galway

Saturday 09 October 2021, 12:00 -18:00

How many young people look around them and feel that they have had a say in what they see?

AATE is paving the way to create the conditions, expertise and network to enable our young people to directly shape their world - to create future spaces, places and inhabitations at a variety of scales. In working with award-winning grassroots architecture education organisation, Matt +Fiona, www.mattandfiona.org , Architecture at the Edge through this process, invited young people in Galway, via what Design Lab, to help shape the places they live, work and play.

6 local emerging artists and creatives – our Design Lab Ambassadors - worked alongside Matt + Fiona / AATE, to introduce ideas and concepts to the school children. Participating schools for the 2020/21term were Coláiste na Coiribe, Dominican College, Taylors Hill and Coláiste Bhaile Chláir.

The journey enabled 50 TY students to develop their ideas about the built environment into a collective brief and design ideas for a more young-person friendly proposal for an agreed project centred on the city of Galway. This enabled the young people to build three collective concept structures based on their own proposals.

These installations will be on display, thereby celebrating and sharing the young people’s ideas, alongside live creative workshops with the AATE Design Lab Ambassadors.

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