Slow Architecture Exhibition 2010
09.09.2010 - 21.10.2010
A travelling exhibition along the Grand Canal from the Shannon to Dublin , Ireland
The aim of the exhibition is not only to engage with architects but also with the wider public and thus the proposal is to exhibit the selected schemes within a specifically converted barge travelling slowly on the Grand Canal via various moorings including Belmont Mill and Tullamore and finishing in Dublin.
This canal-boat based exhibition looks at the themes suggested above, specifically:
- Rediscovering the joy of making and building
- Observing more closely the patterns and rhythms of a place
- Investigating issues around inhabitation and sense of community
Architects and artists have been asked to respond to this notion of slow architecture and to examine whether and how this might be achievable in a modern Irish building climate. The seven selected exhibitors have illustrated their ideas through one of their own projects and design methodology.
The chosen exhibitors are:
Sean Harrington Architects - a Dublin based practice together with Ballymun Regeneration Ltd - investigate the design process through the ecology of materials and the interaction with the community.
Caelan Bristow - a Limerick based spatial artist - investigates the fresh awareness of our surroundings that can be prompted when we tune into our senses.
Michael Carrol - an architectural graduate from County Galway - investigates the development of rural nodes for disparate and broken communities and the craft of communal building as means of bringing social and architectural cohesion.
Donaghy and Dimond Architects - a Dublin based practice - investigate the notion of 'slow' within ideas of dwelling, depth in time ? of sources, site, provenance of materials and a future archaeology
Susan Jane Dunford - a UK based sculptor - examines the physical effects of the passage of time on buildings, embracing the idea of aging gracefully and of impermanence.
Roisin de Buitlear - a Dublin based artist - looks to vernacular construction methods of rural crafts for making shelters and boundaries as a point of departure for investigating the reuse of waste glass.
Emmet Kenny - architectural graduate from Offaly - investigates the town of Birr and its slow development over two hundred years engendering the urban richness of today.
The canal boat-based exhibition is chosen for its inherent qualities of slow travel and as a means to take an architectural themed exhibition into more rural areas. At each mooring an opening night will see the exhibitors invited to discuss their exhibit. The barge will remain moored and provide the exhibition venue for the following day when school groups are encouraged to respond to the exhibition. The final mooring of the journey will take place in Waterways Ireland visitor centre in the Grand Canal docks |
September 2010
