Interested in running an event? Architecture at the Edge has issued an #OpenCall for entries for the 2023 event, which promises a city and county-wide exploration of the theme “Re-Mapping’ through a wide range of events between 29 September – 08 October 2023.
The Architecture at the Edge, (AATE ) Festival is an annual public celebration of architecture and the built environment. The Festival programme will feature talks, tours, workshops and exhibitions with many of Ireland’s leading architectural, cultural and academic institutions participating from around Ireland, the UK and Europe.
Architecture at the Edge celebrates the west of Ireland and its potential as a hub of architectural experimentation, practice and debate. The annual festival provokes questions about the contemporary and future life of our city, and promotes positive change to its public realm. The city and county-wide programme is delivered by leading cultural and academic partners alongside associated projects by practices and individuals.
The 2023 AATE Festival aims to connect with as many people as possible, in ways that demonstrate how a well-designed built environment can help enhance the quality of our lives and our diverse communities.
Our provocation for the festival is (Re )Mapping! The Re-Mapping theme will explore how Galwegians and visitors to the city & county can be active participants in this conversation, our growth and evolution – from reinterpreting or redesigning familiar places and spaces through drawing, walking, writing, making to testing interactive forms of consultation and planning for future development.
AATE is open to anyone with an interest in a progressive future for architecture and the built environment. Mapmaking is one of the fundamental ways humans are able to imagine this world. Through maps, the unknown is made visible and understandable.
‘How we define ‘the Edge’ is the question we at AATE are most frequently asked’ Architecture at the Edge director Frank Monahan says. ‘ Where are we situated in response to the various challenges we are now facing – inequality, the multi-faceted consequences of the climate emergency – and how we understand and make sense of our place, our location in the world.’ Re-mapping serves to improve our understanding of where we are and what surrounds us.
Working with close assistance from the AATE production team, and with a small self-directed budget, AATE invites contributions from event producers – individuals and collectives - in submission of new cultural work for the AATE Festival 2023 core programme in October.
Selected submissions will be exhibited during the AATE Festival in the Autumn, to an audience of the broad public. The open call closes for confirmed submissions at 12 noon on Friday 07 July.
The maximum allowance available of €2,000 includes the fee for your time, production costs, contributing to the marketing and evaluation of the festival.
The advice is to make your proposal accessible for a broad range of audiences and if possible, delivering your proposal bilingually.
Through a range of events and activities we invite the public to experience the invisible networks and connections in the spaces that are meaningful to us. Together with our architects, planners and designers we need to imagine if our world was redrawn not based on territories, the socio-political structures , but conceptually via diagram ideas and concepts rather than physical places. The emphasis is on the our environment as social community, on behaviour, our interdependence and rituals.
‘“Re-Mapping ” asks us to look at how we see ourselves and our city, the countryside and our communities, and focus on the dynamic relationship between the natural and the man made and how this can be revealed to enhance the experience of the architectural landscape.
We need a roadmap for change, for different ways of seeing and understanding what surrounds us. “Re-Mapping ” asks us to look at how we see ourselves and our place in this world, and how we might describe it to those others we share it with. Every experiences of ours is equally valid and meaningful; we all need to be part of the process of creating a world that works for everyone.
To take part and get involved visit the AATE website: www.architectur eattheedge.com
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