CITY LIFE: Architecture, Art and Design; Joint International Summer School in Dublin
A Shared International Summer School 2015 hosted jointly by University College Dublin (UCD) and the National College of Art and Design (NCAD)
Tuesday, 14th July - Friday, 28th August 2015
The ‘City Life: Architecture, Art and Design’ urban summer school provides for participants from diverse disciplinary backgrounds the opportunity to work in both single-discipline and interdisciplinary groups to observe and engage with the ongoing development of Dublin today. Workshops will run from July 14th – 30th 2015 utilising the NCAD Gallery as a studio lab space for students in which to work and experiment; the Gallery will showcase student project outcomes to the public through exhibition open from August 4th - 28th, Mon - Fri, 1 - 5pm.
Queries regarding the Summer School can be directed to ncaducdsummerschool@ucd.ie. Please read further below on this page for more information on the ‘City Life’ urban summer school and http://ncad-ucd.ie/summer-school/
Who owns the city? Who has a right to access it? How do we define spaces of overlap and contestation? What forces control the shifting landscape of the city? Why do some spaces become symbolic? Are there spaces which should be defended – for culture, or history, or diversity?
The ‘City Life: Architecture, Art and Design’ urban summer school, will address these core questions. Amidst the growing awareness of Dublin’s development as an urban space, still little is known about the forces governing the city and its changing landscape. Using multiple disciplinary perspectives, participants will be challenged to create new narratives for Dublin which address and give voice and image to the hidden parts of the city.
Working in both single-discipline and interdisciplinary groups located in one of the most vibrant and mutable parts of Dublin’s inner city, participants will observe the complex web of cultural, social and economic factors currently shaping metropolitan spaces across the world. While “in situ” in the college’s immediate environs, participants will research and realise projects which narrate new stories of Dublin as an urban space. Examining the nexus of powers shaping the streets directly outside the College doors, participants will partake in a critical evaluation of urbanism in the Irish context.
The summer school will give participants the opportunity to observe and engage with the ongoing development of Dublin today. Because of the compact scale of the city and its cultural and political structures, and the embedded positions of the school’s faculty in connection to key institutions, the school will offer participants unparalleled access to the stakeholders currently negotiating Dublin’s response to global urban conditions. Over a three-week period, students will explore and respond to Dublin’s rich urban culture. Along with numerous tours, visits and special events, the programme will combine shared studio activity with focused workshops, seminars and lectures. Expertise will be drawn from Schools of Architecture, Art History, Cultural Policy, Interaction Design, Material Culture Studies, and Visualisation.
http://ncad-ucd.ie/summer-school/
Queries regarding the Summer School can be directed to ncaducdsummerschool@ucd.ie
NCAD Gallery, 100 Thomas Street, Dublin 8.
Contact: Anne Kelly, Curator NCAD Gallery Programme gallery@staff.ncad.ie
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