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Fire Structures
Sept
17
to 27 Sept
Workshop, Tour, Exhibition

Fire Structures

  • Festival Printworks Gallery, Market St. Galway (map)
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Fire Structures - Ambacht studio

Exhibition/Workshop

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 

Walking Tour led by Róisín Mc Loughlin

“Níl aon tinteán mar do thinteán Féin:
Hearth to Hearth through Galway City” 

12:00 - 13:00, Sunday 27th September

Meeting point: Tigh Neachtains

Artist Talk / Workshop with Ambacht studio : 

13:00 - 15:00, Sunday 27th September

Ancient gathering around the hearth is explored through an installation of pre-modern structures in the form of cyanotype prints and a cyanotype print workshop.

Acknowledging fire’s role in human gathering and pre-modern architecture, this exhibition explores Irish settlement structures from the Grooved Ware period (3000-2400BC), a culture believed to be particularly centred around fire. The installation spatially interprets a typical circular enclosure featuring four internal posts and a central hearth.

The central hearth is represented by a rectangular podium where visitors can handle study prints. Beneath these, an undeveloped cyanotype print is affected by the changing light and visitor movement, serving as a "living" symbolic fire. Surrounding this are interconnecting stools (by Nocht Studio), creating a gathering space. Large-scale cyanotype prints—toned in ash and wheat grass—form a concentric semi-enclosure, interpreting the site plan, individual buildings, and art of the period. The exhibition culminates in a workshop led by Adela Gomez, where participants will create their own cyanotype prints and develop the print exposed under the hearth, actively engaging with the themes of architectural memory and communal creation.

Project credits Kinstools by Nocht Studio, and courtesy the KinShip project.

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Your Seat at the Table
Sept
17
to 27 Sept
Exhibition, Talk, Workshop

Your Seat at the Table

  • Festival Printworks Gallery, Market street. Galway (map)
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Your Seat at the Table 

Directed and produced by Michelle Delea

Festival Printworks Gallery, Market street.
FREE entry - All are welcome, no booking required 

Exhibition: 

Thursday 17th September - Sunday 27th September 

Workshop: 

12:00 - 14:00, Saturday 19th September

Artist Talk: 

14:00 - 15:00, Sunday 27th September

Your Seat at the Table is a creative, participatory workshop and interactive exhibition. Architectural representations often fail to capture the messiness of everyday experiences in our homes and the impacts that buildings have on our lives. 

Your Seat at the Table aims to collectively share our everyday experiences of inhabiting our homes and neighbourhoods.  

Your story could be about barriers to having a safe or secure home, or about things that you hold dear and long to hold onto. We will make visible the conditions that we need to turn a house into a comfortable and safe home. 

We recognise that people communicate, learn and share experiences in diverse ways. You are invited to join us - to sit around the table and tell your story in a way that feels right for you. Use your voice, your hands, your ears, your heart. 

Workshop materials and tools will be provided. 

Supported by * 

Your Seat at the Table is part of a wider research project funded by Research Ireland, in conjunction with TU Dublin (academic partner) and the RIAI (enterprise partner).

Project credits

Co-designed by Ailbhe Cunningham, Ample Space & Leo Keller, funkelgrund with support from Kevin Donovan & Paddy Dolan, TUDublin. 

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Film + Architecture Workshop
Sept
18
to 24 Sept
Exhibition, Film, Workshop

Film + Architecture Workshop

  • The Mick Lally Theatre, Druid Lane, Galway (map)
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Film + Architecture Workshop

Workshop, Exhibition, Film screenings

18th September – 24th September

10:00 – 18:00hr 

Based at The Mick Lally Theatre, Druid Lane

For AATE 2026, Le Chéile – The Architectures of Belonging invites us to reconsider architecture not as the production of isolated objects, but as the cultivation of relationships. This film workshop calls for an understanding of the built environment as a shared ecology, where humans, non-humans, infrastructures, landscapes, memories, and everyday practices continuously shape one another.

Workshop led by Sabrina Morreale, Lemonot Studio and Søren Nørkjær Bang, Architecture Forum (CAFx) with Thomas Kerr Bell. 

Guest tutors;
Dr Torange Khonsari 
Alessandro Pasero 
Docar Films - Jasper Meurer 

Films will premiere on Thursday 24th September at 17:00hr in the Festival Printworks Gallery, Q&A + Drinks.

Supported by: Screen Ireland, Skills Development Funding Scheme 

Part of the LINA Architecture Programme 

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Pálás Sí by Róisín Murphy
Sept
18
2:00 pm14:00
Talk, Workshop

Pálás Sí by Róisín Murphy

  • The Mick Lally Theatre, Druid Ln, Galway (map)
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Pálás Sí by Róisín Murphy FRIAI

Workshop / Talk >>>

The Mick Lally Theatre, Druid Ln, Galway. 

16:00 – 20:30h, Culture Night, Friday 18 September 

FREE entry - All are welcome, no booking required

‘After an egg was eaten, the shells were crushed or thrown in the fire as otherwise it was believed that they would become the home of the fairies.’

The action of the community by collecting and blowing eggs together and a reflection on an animal that is intertwined with human activity in forming settlements for millennia. In particular the relationship of the hen to the cottage when hens historically were kept indoors at night for protection and warmth: they were primarily minded by women and after the commodification of eggs through the “dirty egg “ campaign in the 19th century and the loss of access to market for women , the pin money tells a story of the impact of practices that separated women from land and animal husbandry. The proposal is built on theme of the authors research of the impact of the milk on cities and towns in Ireland , in this work the attention is drawn to the egg. The resultant pavilion is designed to be composted or reassembled in another site, drawings and photographs of the Aos Sí to remain.

Project credits

Special thanks Joe Hogan https://www.joehoganbaskets.com 

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Pálás an Phobail - tasting a sense of place
Sept
18
to 19 Sept
Exhibition, Event, Workshop, Talk

Pálás an Phobail - tasting a sense of place

  • Festival Printworks Gallery, Market St, (Next to the Portershed a dó.) (map)
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Blanka Major + Hinterland

Pálás an Phobail - tasting a sense of place

Festival Printworks Gallery, Market St, (Next to the Portershed a dó.)
19:00-23:00 hr, Friday 18 September, 2026
FREE entry – but prebooking is essential, no registration no entry.

AATE are working in collaboration with Blanka Major and Hinterland with the aim to connect food, people and place.

Architecture at the Edge is partnership with Hinterland will create a series of spaces of encounter for Culture Night, - curated by Blanka Major - connecting an outdoor installation on Druid Lane, a happening at the Mick Lally Theatre, and a culinary exploration at the Festival Printworks Gallery through the shared theme of belonging.

At its heart is an edible installation that takes the form of a Pálás an Phobail—a People’s palace—where the everyday rituals of gathering, eating, listening, and exchanging ideas unfold through food, sound, and conversation. Guests move through a sequence of spaces shaped by stories and sensory encounters, each revealing a different relationship between food, landscape and memory—inviting them to taste a sense of place. From a canopy of flags stretching across the street and a performative public interior, to solitary moments and shared tables, the evening explores how places—and people—come to belong through the encounters they foster, the stories they carry, and the memories they create.

The evening includes inputs by:

Professor Anna Davies, Geography, Trinity College Dublin & 

Michael Higgins, Political Liaison & Systems Change Lead, Bohemians Co-operatives.

Blanka Major / Curators Talk >>>

The Mick Lally Theatre, Druid ln, Galway.

17:00 – 19:30 h, Sunday 20 September 

Tickets: Free but prebooking is advised via Eventbrite

‘Pálás an Phobail - tasting a sense of place’, is part of the Culture Night Late programme, funded by the Arts Council and the Department of Culture, Communications and Sport under the Night-Time Economy programme with support from Galway City Council Arts Office.

For more details on Culture Night Late in Galway City, you can check out the @thisisgalway or @Archattheedge Instagram pages.

 

BIOS

Blanka Major is a Zurich-based architect with Hungarian roots whose work spans architecture, food, research, teaching, writing, and curation. She explores how everyday infrastructures shape collective life, using cooking as a spatial and social practice. She is part of ZAS*, a LINA Spotlight Fellow 2025, and was nominated for the Swiss Art Award in Architecture (2026).

The Hinterland Team are a west of Ireland based initiative dedicated to community-rooted research, creativity, and action that nourishes just, inclusive and sustainable food futures. Together with Blanka will we curate an event which responds to the intersecting challenges of climate, agriculture, access, and belonging by cultivating holistic, place-based models of change.

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14 Flags of Belonging
Sept
18
9:00 pm21:00
Exhibition, Talk, Workshop

14 Flags of Belonging

  • Druid Ln, (off Quay Street), Galway (map)
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14 Flags of Belonging

Druid Ln, (off Quay Street)
21:00 - 23:30hr, Friday 18 September, 2026
All are welcome – no booking required. 

Meet the designers >>>

The Mick Lally Theatre, Druid Ln, (off Quay Street)

20:00-21:00 hr, Friday 18th September 2026

FREE entry – but prebooking is advised. 

We are thrilled to announce a brand new public art flag display on Druid lane in collaboration with Galway City Council and supported by the Arts Council. The artists vibrant designs entitled 14 Flags of Belonging will adorn the Galway skies from 17th to 27th September 2026.

The 14 commissioned designers have worked to create a series of symbolic flags which represent various identities and communities in the city. These flags are a nod to the 14 Tribes of Galway,  created in response to ‘Le Chéile – the Architectures of Belonging. our theme for 2026.

Each flag showcases intricate geometric patterns, celebrating the multicultural fabric of the city and speak to a place, a feeling, a tribe or community, a memory, and/or ideas and concepts around collective ideas of belonging, wellbeing, identity, imagination and purpose.

Their artwork spills out onto the streets of the Latin Quarter, bringing vivid colours and vibrancy along Galway’s Druid lane.

For the duration of rthe Architecture at the Edge Festival, these striking designs give us a glimpse of what's in store for the city's streets. The designs, responding to the "Belonging" theme, reflect the liveliness and excitement of the city of the tribes. It’s a privilege to work on this project and bring the colour and vibrancy of art out of into the streets of Galway.  

To learn more about the designers follow @ArchAtTheEdge for updates.


Project credits

’14 Flags of Belonging’, is part of the Culture Night Late programme, funded by the Arts Council and the Department of Culture, Communications and Sport under the Night-Time Economy programme with support from Galway City Council Arts Office.

For more details on Culture Night Late in Galway City, you can check out the @Archattheedge Instagram pages.

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Gathering at Tigh Páidín 
Sept
19
3:30 pm15:30
Event, Workshop

Gathering at Tigh Páidín 

  • Tigh Páidín, Galway (H91 YW9W) (map)
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Gathering at Tigh Páidín 

Menlo’s vernacular heritage Gathering

Workshop / Community Event

Venue: Tigh Páidín (H91 YW9W)


Saturday 19th September, 2026



FREE entry - All are welcome, no booking required 

Galway City Council have been engaged in a vernacular survey and research over the past year in North Galway City in the townland of Ballindooley, which has been part funded by the Heritage Council.

Following on from this, Galway City Council have commenced Phase 1 of a Vernacular Heritage Survey of Menlo, a vernacular settlement to the north west of Galway City.

The survey will focus on revisiting and resurveying dwellings that were recorded by UCD Architecture students in the 1940s. The survey will utilise these drawings and mapping, which are held by the National Museum of Ireland, as a baseline to undertake the reassessment of Menlo’s vernacular heritage.

As part of the vernacular heritage survey process and in line with the spirit of this year’s AATE festival – ‘Le Chéile – the Architectures of Belonging’, the Galway

City Council Architectural Conservation Officer and the appointed vernacular consultants will host a community event to gather information on Menlo’s vernacular heritage.


Supported by: 

Galway City Council 

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