The Temporary City – David Andrews
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
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.
Thursday November 28th from 6.30-8pm
Goethe Institut, 37 Merrion Square Dublin 2 (East side, opposite National Gallery)
All welcome, RSVP to ili@irishlandscapeinstitute.com to reserve your place.
Speakers:
David Andrews, Landscape Architect MILI
Samuel Bishop, Upstart Collaborative
