2020 Archive
- UCD architectural graduate wins RIBA President's Medal
- Assistant Professor Samantha Martin-McAuliffe new editor-in-chief of Architectural Histories.
- The Just Transition
- Timber buildings: reuse and recycling for sustainability
- Hugh Campbell's 2020 Architecture Student Induction
- Samburu Stories: Communicating Architecture in the Climate Emergency
- Virtual Ceremony 2020
- Irish Research Council announces 100 new awards to support research collaboration and dissemination
- Eco-Health: Ecosystem Benefits of Greenspace for Health
- UCD Staff reflect on COVID-19’s Transformation of Education
- Minor Harbours of Ireland
- RIBA names Farrell and McNamara as 2020 Royal Gold Medal winner
- Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara Receive the 2020 Pritzker Architecture Prize
- The growing research impact of APEP; a global leader in UCD
- Davis Now Radio Lectures
- 50 people to watch in 2020 contains two members of APEP
- Exploring Social Acceptance of the Bioeconomy. Funded PhD Opportunity in Environmental Policy.
Aoife Corcoran & Philip Crowe on the 50 people to watch in 2020
Thursday, 9 January, 2020
AOIFE CORCORAN AND PHILIP CROWE OF SPACE ENGAGERS. PHOTOGRAPH: DARA MAC DÓNAILL
Aoife Corcoran and Philip Crowe
Space Engagers
Over the past decade, as urban areas have continued to grow, so too has the conversation around what makes them sustainable. How can we future-proof our towns and cities? Founded by Aoife Corcoran and Philip Crowe, Space Engagers is a research and design collective of architects, social scientists, urban planners and others, working to make towns and cities more resilient. “It’s very clear that we are not integrating science and climate change impacts into planning,” Crowe says. “There needs to be more attention on bringing people along on these processes of change. It’s not going to work if you don’t bring everyone along.” Recently they have researched issues like vacancy in city buildings. A Limerick-based EU-funded project for 2020 is +CityxChange (positive city exchange), which involves taking a block of the city and trying to make it produce more energy than it consumes.