Engaging with Architecture Scheme launched

he Arts Council and the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government have launched a new scheme with the purpose of engaging the public with architecture. The Engaging with Architecture Scheme was developed as a partnership initiative in response to both the Government Policy on Architecture 2009 - 2015 Towards a Sustainable Future: Delivering Quality within the Built Environment and the Arts Council's research into Public Engagement with Architecture (2009). The closing date for applications is Thursday 16 September 2010 and projects must take place before the end of August 2011.
http://www.artscouncil.ie/en/news/news.aspx?article=1021b91f-44a0-40ba-a793-e71eae39c4eb

Open Call for Architecture Republic Exhibition, Dublin

Architecture Republic is opening their AAI award-winning project ‘The Plastic House’ as an exhibition space. Artists are invited to submit a proposal for an installation piece to be exhibited in the Plastic House. The exhibition is called ‘right place, right space?’ and will take place from 27 – 29 August. For more details please visit our facebook site. Applications should be sent to the email address below containing:
1. Brief description of your piece.
2. Your preference of space in the house.
Email:
office@architecture-republic.com
Deadline:
 13 August 2010

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3TWENTY10 - RIAI Research Competition

The RIAI wants to promote the ideas and problem-solving abilities of Architects and develop a number of research projects that will provide solutions to problems in the built environment, whether existing or impending and to give Architects the opportunity take the initiative by providing solutions. Architects are in a unique position given their training, which is based on strategy and lateral thinking to identify and resolve problems.
www.riai.ie/competitions/detail/3twenty10_riai_research_competition/

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Solar Energy Solutions for Non-Residential Buildings - Free Seminar - 14th May 2010

On Friday 14th May, The Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI) are hosting a free seminar on Solar Energy Solutions for Non-Residential Buildings at:
Kingspan Renewables, 180 Gilford Road, Portadown, Co.Armagh.
To book your place at this free event please email renewables@reio.ie including your full contact details and an indication of which seminar you wish to attend:
Portadown morning
Portadown afternoon
Numbers are strictly limited to 30 for each session. If you require any further information please contact Paul Dykes, SEAI REIO - Tel: 023 8863393 Email: pauld@reio.ie.

Aoibhneas Children’s Centre Architectural Competition

The RIAI is administering a competition on behalf of the competition promoters, Aoibhneas Women and Children's Refuge www.aoibhneas.ie. This open, two-stage architectural competition is for the design of a children’s centre on the existing site of Aoibhneas Women and Children’s Refuge in Coolock, Dublin. Each short listed competitor invited to participate in Stage 2 of the competition will be paid an honorarium of €10,000 for a Stage 2 submission. Registration Deadline is the 30 April 2010.
More information http://bit.ly/9DBCmO

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Lunchtime events at darc space: Thursday 22 April, ‘Meet the President’

Meet – Talk – Lunch
darc space, on 26 North Great George’s Street, will host a new series of Thursday lunch-time gatherings from Thursday 22 April 2010 that will provide architects and those interested in the built environment with the opportunity to meet, talk, debate and lunch together.
The themed lunches will run on selected Thursdays between April and July and again from September. The lunches will take the form of a ‘conversation’ with a leading speaker and will take place between 1.00 and 2.15pm, accompanied by a sponsored lunch. Lunch is free but places are limited and booking is therefore essential.
Each Thursday lunch will have a dedicated theme and the first lunch on 22 April – Meet the President – will be led by the new RIAI President Paul Keogh, discussing how the profession can play an active role in Ireland’s economic recovery. This lunch is sponsored by the RIAI. Other Thursday lunch-time topics will include: ‘NAMA and our Built Environment’; ‘Passive, Active or Zero – What’s Best in Low Energy Design?’; ‘Architectural Practices: Stay Small and Survive?’; ‘Un-Building our Environment’; and ‘How can the planning system work better?’
Suggestions for other topics welcome. To reserve a place contact Maggie Moran at darc space, T 01 8788535 www.darcspace.ie/

RIAI/ IAF Architectural Tours Project Manager

A 3 month position to develop and launch an architectural tours programme. Deadline for entrants is noon on March 12th.
More information at http://www.riai.ie/news/article/project_manager_temp_contract/

Workshop Proposals Wanted

The 30th European Architecture Students Assembly will be held in Manchester UK on July 31st - August 15th 2010. The Assembly, as ever, centres around workshops producing work as investigation of the Assembly’s theme - this year Identity. Working closely with civic authorities easa010 will be coming to the people. Throughout the assembly specially arranged events will allow public access and interaction with the most creative and exciting for-student-by-student event of its kind and scale in the world. The Assembly culminates in a city wide exhibition of workshop output and public engagement.

The Workshop Application Form which all prospective tutors must fill out needs to be submitted before midnight 12-02-2010.

Applications and questions regarding workshops should be sent to workshops@easauk.net.

More information and the Tutorpack can be found at
http://www.easauk.net/

Exchange Dublin

Exchange Dublin is a new collective arts centre in Temple Bar, Dublin run entirely by young people and holding discussions, gigs, visual arts and performance.
This is a space for new ideas.
This is a space for connections.
This is a space for action.
http://exchangedublin.ie

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Scholarships in USA

The Fulbright Program was established in Ireland in 1957 to provide scholarships to Irish citizens to lecture, research or study in the United States and for the US citizens to lecture, research or study in Ireland.
http://www.fulbright.ie/

Scholarships for Postgraduates Abroad

If you are interested in doing a postgraduate or Masters abroad, more information regarding scholarships and grants can be found at the department of education website http://www.education.ie/home/home.jsp?pcategory=10900&ecategory=21393&language=EN
Forward planning is crucial with many of the application deadlines 6-9 months in advance eg. January for a September start.

Work & Study in Japan

Vulcanus in Japan is a programme that consists of work placements for EU students. It starts in September and ends in August of the following year. The students follow a one-week seminar on Japan, a four-month intensive Japanese language course, and then an eight-month traineeship in a Japanese company. Previous students have done traineeships with Architecture studios such as Suo Fujimoto, Sendai+ Kobe, and NKS Architects. The European students are awarded a grant (Yen 2.000.000) to cover the cost of travel to and from Japan and living expenses in Japan. There is no charge for the language course and seminar, and accommodation is provided free of charge during the course and seminar and the company traineeship.

While Part I and Part II students can avail of this it is also worth mentioning that Part III students with UCD can also participate. The deadline for application is in January of each year.

More information available from http://www.eu-japan.eu/global/vulcanus-in-japan.html

DARC Space

Recently launched Dublin Architecture Space is located on 26th North Great George's Street. More info is available from www.darcspace.ie/ and Denis Byrne Architects www.architects-dba.com

Volunteering Options for Architects

Architecture Sans Frontieres - http://www.asf-uk.org/
Architecture for Humanity - http://architectureforhumanity.org/
Article 25 - http://www.article-25.org/
Habitat for Humanity - http://www.habitatireland.ie/
Haven Partnership - http://www.havenpartnership.com/
http://www.volunteeringoptions.org/

FÁS | Work Placement Programme

The Work Placement Programme offers unemployed people, including unemployed graduates, the opportunity to obtain 6 months work experience while on a work placement with a company. While on the work placement participants retain their social welfare status and entitlements. If you are a unemployed architect or graduate of architecture, view the Work Placement Programme page for additional information on eligibility or visit your local FÁS Employment Services Office to register your interest in the programme. http://www.fas.ie/en/Job+Seeker/WPP/default.htm

Is your company interested in offering someone a work placement? On the Work Placement Programme page on the FÁS website you can find out further details on whether you are eligible to apply and you can download an application form. You can also freephone: 1800 611 116. http://www.fas.ie/en/Employer/WPP/default.htm

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Kevin Kieran Award

The award is a partnership between the Arts Council and the OPW to offer an emerging architect the opportunity to develop a research project worth €50,000 over two years and to design and run a building contract for the OPW. For further information on this specific award, contact Aisling McKone, Architecture Assistant on: Phone: +353 1 6180253 Email: aisling.mckone@artscouncil.ie
Previous recipients:
2009 - 2011: Orla Murphy
2007 - 2009: Stephen Roe

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Arts Council releases research

The Arts Council of Ireland recently published two research reports on visual artists’ workspaces and public engagement with architecture. More at the Arts Council Website http://www.artscouncil.ie/en/news/news.aspx?article=346ae8fe-baca-4513-a44b-63866619b924

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Desmond Guinness Scholarship

The Desmond Guinness Scholarship is awarded annually by the Irish Georgian Society to an applicant or applicants, either resident in Ireland or registered for a degree in Ireland, engaged in research on the visual arts in Ireland including the work of Irish architects, artists and craftsmen at home and abroad, 1600-1900. Preference will be given to work based on original documentary research.

The Scholarship is intended primarily for applicants who are not yet established at an advanced professional level in research or publication of the visual arts.
The Scholarship does not have to be awarded in any one year, and the decision of the assessors, appointed by the Irish Georgian Society, is final.
The total value of the scholarship fund available for distribution in 2009 is in the region of €1,200.00

Applications must be submitted by Friday 8th January 2010
For further details or an application form please contact Aoife Kavanagh, Irish Georgian Society, 74 Merrion Square, Dublin 2, tel: +353 1 6767053, email: aoife.kavanagh@igs.ie

‘9 to 5 residency’ Call for Proposals

PS2 offers artists, architects, creative practitioners… its space for a series of daylong residencies. Used for exhibition, performance, research, office work, hide out, craft workshop, studio, cinema, museum, living room, shop or observatory, the space will change daily in a fast turnaround. Please send a short proposal + few images till 31 October 2009 to pssquared@btconnect.com

RIAI Annual Conference, Limerick - Conference Lottery

In recognition of the current economic conditions, the RIAI is operating a lottery to provide 5 free places on the Monday session and 5 free places for the Tuesday session— for unwaged / hardship members.

The Tuesday workshop is designed for practitioners to hear how some members have taken innovative approaches to dealing with the recession; and to get tips from business advisors on public relations, internationalisation and new business opportunities. The RIAI’s 2009 Conference in Limerick will focus on what Architects and Architecture can contribute to Shaping Ireland’s future.

RIAI/OPW Architectural Graduate Training Scheme 2009

The Office of Public Works and the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland run an established Architectural Graduate Training Scheme. It provides practical experience for those wishing to prepare for the RIAI or UCD examination in Professional Practice. Placement, in the OPW Architectural Services, Trim, Co. Meath, will be for a maximum of 36 months. Closing date for applications 12 noon, Monday, 21 September 2009.