An evening of two talks hosted and run by the Irish Landscape Institute. 
Speakers:

• David Andrews, Landscape Architect
• Sam Bishop, Upstart. 

The Temporary City – David Andrews, MILI

Increasingly, traditional approaches to public realm development are being challenged by more agile, responsive, and iterative methods of city making. The recent economic downturn has highlighted the rigidness and inflexibility of traditional methods of development and has sparked a trend in community-based initiatives. David Andrews, a Dublin-based landscape architect, will discuss how hands-on community engagement, "lighter, quicker, cheaper" techniques, and the adoption of a curatorial role to site management can create vibrant and engaging public spaces. International and local examples, including recent work from David's own research and practice, will be presented.

Granby Park – Samuel Bishop, Upstart Collaborative

This year the Upstart Collaborative transformed a vacant space on Dominick Street in central Dublin into a pop-up park over four weeks from August to September. The park consisted of up-cycled, recycled, donated and found material and featured some of the city's most talented artists, architects, performers and planners contributing to making an empty space a playground for all. They now intend to create a toolkit in order to inspire parks across the country. Hear more about Granby Park, what was achieved, why Upstart did it, and what is next from this innovative Irish collaborative.

About the speakers:

David Andrews, Landscape Architect, MILI, is based in Dublin Ireland. His work covers a range of project types: open space and play space strategies, residential housing schemes, natural play space design, residential garden design, urban streetscape design, placemaking strategies, community design facilitation, and hands-on landscape design and build workshops. He is also a senior tutor at the University College of Dublin in the Landscape Architecture Department.

All welcome, RSVP to ili@irishlandscapeinstitute.comto reserve your place.

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