Making Place Better

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Reimagine Place is a central portal for placemaking that harnesses the agency of communities across Ireland to amplify their potential in a way that can transform their physical, social, psychological well being.

Reimagine is a nationwide placemaking programme by the Irish Architecture Foundation, working with communities across Ireland to co-create and co-design solutions to problems or opportunities they’ve identified in their locality.

Reimagine matches architects with local partners, enabling communities to play an active role in the development of their neighbourhoods, streetscapes, parks, villages and towns.

Find out more about our projects in the “Fieldwork” section, and stay up to date on the “News“ page. Go to “Resources“ for toolkits, videos, essays, and information on our clinics, and to “About“ to find out more about us.

News

Reimagine Session – Storytelling for placemaking

In this session you will hear about the fundamentals of storytelling and explore how to leverage your pitch when communicating with collaborators, community members, local authorities and potential funders.

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Job Opportunity: Engagement and Placemaking Manager

We are seeking an individual with passion, commitment and imagination to continue and further develop the IAF Place/Reimagine programmes.

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Announcing the Reimagine Hometown Architect projects 2024

Community groups in Cavan, Laois and Donegal team up with local architects to co-develop regeneration projects

Reimagine Session – Storytelling for placemaking

Thursday, May 16th, 1pm-2pm

Job Opportunity: Engagement and Placemaking Manager

10 April 2024

We are seeking an individual with passion, commitment and imagination to continue and further develop the IAF Place/Reimagine programmes.

Announcing the Reimagine Hometown Architect projects 2024

21 March 2024

Community groups in Cavan, Laois and Donegal team up with local architects to co-develop regeneration projects

Bog Bothy – Project Update

To mark World Wetland Day, we are sharing an update on our Bog Bothy Project! Find out about what the team have been up to, and how to track their journey to creating a new peatlands architecture.

Reimagine Session – Town Centre First in practice

Friday, 24th November, 1pm-2pm

Reimagine Café – Spaces for Culture

Friday October 6th, 6.30pm - 7.30pm

Join us in Headford as part of the Something In The Water Festival for an informal presentation and discussion on how vacant buildings in town centres can be reimagined for cultural use, facilitated by the Irish Architecture Foundation.

Reimagine Sessions at Misleór Festival of Nomadic Cultures

Join the Irish Architecture Foundation for "Where Is Our Meeting Point?", a morning of nomadic meeting and placemaking at the Misleór Festival in Galway.

Reimagine Cafés – Hometown Architect

Tuesday 15 & 22 August, 1pm-2pm

The Reimagine Café is a community space for all those involved in placemaking and reimagining their built environment. This August we will have the opportunity to hear from the Hometown Architect teams developing placemaking projects in their localities.

Fieldwork

Reimagine Moville

16.04.2024

Hometown Architect in Moville, Co Donegal, aims to improve workability, vitality and the sense of belonging in the heritage town.

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Reimagine Mountrath

16.04.2024

Hometown Architect in Mountrath, Co Laois, explores creative ways to reconnect the town with the Whitehorse River as a link to its rich history of linen and cotton weaving.

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Reimagine Bailieborough

16.04.2024

Hometown Architect in Bailieborough aims to develop a design vision for a vacant town centre site in Bailieborough, Co Cavan, to create a new street that would link the Main Street and a major local supermarket.

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