EASA Seanchaí
Exhibition
Festival Printworks Gallery, Market St.
Exhibition open from Thursday 17 – Sunday 27, September
Tuesday - Saturday 11am - 6pm, Sunday - Monday 12 noon - 5pm
FREE entry - All are welcome, no booking required
What happens when people meet, make, exchange and imagine together?
The 46th European Architecture Students Assembly, EASA Seanchaí, brought 600 architecture students from across Europe to Waterford for two weeks of collective practice and gathering. Across 41 workshops, participants worked through drawing, making, performance, publishing, spatial experimentation and documentation, producing a diverse body of work and experience.
What remains from such an intense and temporary gathering? Stories, ideas and fragments left in its wake now resurface in Galway, drawn from the many forms of making and exchange that shaped the assembly. Rather than reconstructing EASA as a single story, the exhibition brings together fragments that are partial, overlapping and unfinished, allowing different connections and readings to emerge.
What was made, shared and remembered at the assembly becomes something to encounter again, differently. Taking its theme from the tradition of the Seanchaí, the exhibition considers how stories, ideas and experiences shift as they are carried from one moment to another.