This August the IAF & 12th Field join forces with Common Knowledge for an exciting workshop testing methods for building sensitively on the unique landscape of Ireland’s peatlands.

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.

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.

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

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.

Are you in the process of bringing a vacant property back into use? Join us on May 27th in Limerick to view a large scale renovation project and meet other people who are also undertaking this labour of love.

The Irish Architecture Foundation invites you to join a discussion on Trauma Informed Placemaking as part of our Reimagine Sessions programme. This online event has been guest curated by the Trauma Informed Placemaking project founders, Dr Anita Mckeown and Dr Cara Courage, and will feature five of its global cohort of creative and research practitioners.

Are you in the process of bringing a vacant property back into use? Join us in Cloughjordan to view a 200 year old stone house renovation project, and meet other people who are also undertaking this labour of love.

Are you in the process of bringing a vacant property back into use? Perhaps you have an empty shop you want to turn into a home? Join us in Dún Laoghaire to view a retail-to-home conversion in progress, and meet other people who are also undertaking this labour of love.

What is an estate? What could an estate be? This workshop is an exploration of the housing estate, open to everyone including architects, urbanists, artists, community groups and - most importantly - residents.

The IAF will be hosting an exhibition and series of talks on our Reimagine Workers’ Villages project at the 2022 Ploughing, celebrating the legacy of former Bord na Móna villages designed by architect Frank Gibney.

Our July Reimagine Café provides an opportunity for people to come together to reimagine the future of retail in Clonmel town centre as part of the Clonmel Junction Arts Festival.

The Bloom Room on Main Street is a physical space to discuss, debate and get involved in the future reimagining of Headford Town Centre. You are all invited to experience this pop-up community space tucked away in a cozy courtyard just off Headford Main Street.