Materials Matter Summer Workshops

Clare Breen's account of the Materials Matter Summer workshop series

Materials Matter, Ábhar Ábhar is a container, a holder, a way of thinking and a movement, that explores the production of sustainable art materials. The aim is to bring together practices and forgotten ways of working that are passed along, embellished, reworked, indigenous or partially remembered.

Interview with Deirdre O'Mahony

Deirdre O'Mahony talks with Dee Sewell about PLOT

PLOT is part of Sustainment Experiments, a new project that considers what actions can be taken in the face of ecological and climate crises. It looks back to a technology, the potato ridge that was born out of the need for food security in Ireland’s past, and forward to future food security, biodiversity and resilience in the face of climate change.

Engaging with Architecture

A project exploring the former Braun building by Emma Geoghegan and 4th year students from TU Dublin School of Architecture.

The Listening Project

Documenting children and young people’s experiences of Covid 19, this project by VISUAL and CYPSC aims to collect an archive of children's experiences, positive and negative, of the past year.

To Care

VISUAL In collaboration with Workhouse Union project engages with Care on a social, public, artistic and environmental level. Grounded In an Ethics of Care as an approach to personal, social, moral and political life.

Arts and Humanities Entrepreneurship Hub

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