Reimagine Projects Around Ireland



















Reimagine Projects Around Ireland

News

Reimagine Café – What happens when the shops sell up?

5th July, 1-2pm
Reimagine Café – What happens when the shops sell up?

When: 5 July, 1-2pm

Where: Market Place Shopping Centre, Clonmel

Click here to book your free ticket through the Clonmel Junction Arts Festival website!

 

Do you live in or near Clonmel, or are you attending the Clonmel Junction Arts Festival? Our July Reimagine Café provides an opportunity for people to come together to reimagine the future of retail in Clonmel town centre in a creative environment.

As part of the Clonmel Junction Arts Festival, this café will meet in the former Superquinn shopping centre. Together, we will ponder and discuss a question facing many towns around Ireland: what happens when the shops sell up?

Trade has been a primary function of most of our towns, yet with the prevalence of cars, out-of-town retail and online shopping, many places face a major crisis of vacancy and dereliction. Could a thoughtful refocus on lived-in, walkable urban communities create a new era for the Irish town? 

This Café will be hosted by Emily-Ann Gilligan.

 

Bio:

Emily-Ann Gilligan MRIAI is an architect and director at CANICE Architects. Prior to founding CANICE Architects, Emily-Ann worked in London for award-winning architecture practices. She is a registered architect in both the UK and Ireland. She acts as an external architecture critic at Irish and international universities and is an ongoing contributor to the professional Architecture Ireland publication. Her Masters project explored the decline of retail in our cities and the regeneration of vacant sites and was awarded the Scott Sutherland Purchases Prize.

In her practice she is interested in the collaboration of the arts and architecture. CANICE Architects have gained a reputation for high quality adaptive reuse projects within historically sensitive sites and bringing a contemporary artistic approach to vacant buildings and brownfield sites. Emily-Ann is passionate about carving out more public space from the existing fabric of our settlements. She holds a strong focus on the connection of the built environment and natural environment with the aim of developing human centric and liveable settlements.

 

About Reimagine:

The Reimagine Café is a monthly online or in-person gathering created by the Irish Architecture Foundation for all those involved in placemaking and reimagining their built environment. Reimagine is funded by the Arts Council, the Department of Rural and Community Development, and the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage. Reimagine was made possible through seed funding by the Creative Ireland Programme’s National Creativity Fund.

 

Photos: (top) by Kevin O’Sullivan of the Market Place Shopping Centre’s empty supermarket, during a rehearsal for the play Everything Must Go! by Aideen Wylde and Donal Gallagher. Courtesy of Clonmel Junction Arts Festival. The play will be performed during the festival.

(bottom) Emily-Ann Gilligan, courtesy of Emily-Ann Gilligan.

Black and white photo of Emily-Ann Gilligan

Related News

Reimagine Session – Town Centre First in practice
  • Reimagine Session – Town Centre First in practice

Friday, 24th November, 1pm-2pm

    Read More
    Reimagine Cafe – Spaces for Culture
    • Reimagine Cafe – 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.

      Read More
      Reimagine Sessions at Misleór Festival of Nomadic Cultures
      • 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.

      Read More

      Reimagine powered By

      iaf

      Visit Site
      IAF Re-Imagine