Are you a resident of Lanesborough, Cloontuskert or Kilcormac? Residents are invited to a free community gathering as part of our Workers' Villages programme.

Are you a regular user of College St and the old Dublin Road in Carlow? Join the Irish Architecture Foundation and Architect Deirdre Greaney for a practical and creative workshop that will shine a new light on these streets.

The Reimagine Café is a community space for all those involved in placemaking and reimagining their built environment, meeting on the first Tuesday of every month. The theme for this cafe is DIY Placemaking.

How we design our public realm can have a huge impact on the threats we feel in public and how safe we are. The Café is a space for placemakers to share their thoughts and experiences. We particularly welcome those who wish to contribute from a design perspective.

The Irish Architecture Foundation in partnership with Kilcormac Development Association invites Architects/Architect-led teams, to apply to deliver a programme of co-design, collaborative research and prototyping as part of Reimagine Kilcormac/Worker’s Villages. 

Reimagine Cloontuskert - Workers' Villages event, "Festive Feast and Family Treasure Hunt". Taking place this Saturday 11th December, 12 PM midday

Our third and final Reimagine Session for 2021 poses the question - what could the post-covid town look like?

Reimagine Cafe: Manuals for Future Places. The Irish Architecture Foundation is hosting its first-ever live Reimagine Café as part of the Dublin Art Book Fair.

The Reimagine Café is a community space for all those involved in placemaking and reimagining their built environment, meeting on the last Tuesday of every month. Our October café will focus on collaboration, and how this can build innovative, impactful and long-lasting improvements in our built environment

The Creative Bureaucrat: Investing in strategic creativity in Ireland. This one hour webinar is for those working within a local authority wondering how it’s possible to bring creativity into strategic planning in a meaningful way.

Reimagine is one of 14 projects selected nationwide as part of Creative Ireland's Creative Climate Action Fund. This Creative Ireland initiative supports creative, cultural and artistic projects that build awareness around climate change and empowers citizens to make meaningful behavioural changes.

Four new architects and teams have been selected to work with communities around Ireland to co-design an aspect of their built environment, as part of the Irish Architecture Foundation's Reimagine Programme. 

Our September café will focus on Meanwhile Use Spaces, a way of creating a temporary use for a place until a longer plan is in place.

This edition of Reimagine Sessions focuses on the centre of towns, areas that currently face major challenges as we undergo a shift in how we shop, work, travel and live. How can we reimagine a future for our town cores in the face of online retail and dereliction? Could remote working allow us to turn away from long commutes, and refocus our attention on our towns as places for social interaction and connection? What needs to happen for more people to return to Main Street living?

For our August edition, we will be focusing on the critical issue of dereliction in our communities, with widespread impact visually, socially, economically as well as representing a huge loss of our built heritage. If you would like to join us to discuss this topic or to share an example from your own area, join us on ZOOM on Tuesday, August 31st. We would love to hear about successful strategies and case studies, of buildings brought back to life and vibrant, lived-in streets. 

The theme for our next Cafe is "City Villages". We want to celebrate these villages - to hear about why they are special and what we can learn from them as we develop new communities. This cafe is at 1 pm on July 27th.

With the launch of the Government of Ireland's Our Rural Future - Rural Development Policy 2021 - 2025, we are making "Rural Futures" the theme of June's Reimagine Cafe, on June 29th. 

"From Mini Forests to Pocket Parks - Greening Interventions in Public Space". We have invited three speakers to reflect on the value of these small and valuable spaces, and consider ways that we can design our surroundings with the health of our bodies, communities and planet in mind.

The Reimagine Café is a community space for all those involved in placemaking and reimagining their built environment, meeting on the last Tuesday of every month. For our second Café we’ll be sharing reports from around Ireland related to the theme of "Age Friendly Places" in quick-fire 3-minute slots.

Check out our new Reimagine publication, and find out more about our Placemaking programme.

New documentary featuring the Play Park Ballyfermot, an exciting project facilitated by the IAF which created a new place to play, to skate, to run and to BMX!