Town Planners
This year-long programme included design activities, a changing exhibition, workshops and an international conference co-produced by VISUAL Carlow and Workhouse Union.
The project examined our sense of belonging in civic space, planning principles, and relationships with the built environment and the world around us.
Speakers
Professor Ali Roy, Social Research School of Social Work, Care and Community, UCLan (UK); Michelle Browne, Artist; Je Ahn, Studio Weave (UK); Arts Action Group, Take A Part Carlow; Shem Caulfield, Thomastown Community River Trust; Free Market Architect, Emma Geoghegan, Tara Kennedy and Jo Anne Butler; Helena Fitzgerald, Architect;Etaoin Holahan, Fennelly's of Callan; Hollie Kearns, Butler Gallery; DIT; Alison Harvey, Heritage Council; Rosie Lynch, Workhouse Union; Éilís Lavelle, Workhouse Union; Marjetica Potrc, Artist and Architect (SI), Martin Rafter, Kilkenny Leader Partnership.
Town Planners was funded through the Arts Council Engaging with Architecture Award.
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Date
2018
Artists/Designers
Paul Bokslag, Michelle Browne, Ruth E Lyons, Ita Morrissey, Todo Por La Praxis, and Studio Weave.
Collaborators
Carlow Beekeepers Association, Bí URBAN.The 'People, Place and Participation' conference brings together examples of creative civic engagement and place-making in rural and urban areas, planning and design.
IMAGE CREDITS
Todo Por La Praxis designed a civic plaza, with Paul Bokslag's vinyl floor and wall drawing, which took cues from road marking patterns.
The making of Sugar Sometimes, in artist Ruth E Lyon's kitchen
Ruth E Lyons worked with the Carlow Beekeepers Association while developing her new work Sugar Sometimes.
Fabrication of Todo Por La Praxis' civic plaza space JM Steel, Cuffesgrange, County Kilkenny.
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