Previous Seminars 2021-22
Seminar 1: Data and Irish towns
1-2pm, Thursday 7 October
- Dr Karen Keaveney (UCD Agriculture & Food Science): Understanding Data Needs for Participatory Democracy
- Dr Jennifer Keenahan (UCD Civil Engineering): Wind modelling for pedestrian comfort in the built environment
- Dr Luke Kelleher (UCD Architecture, Planning & Environmental Policy): Mapping town centres
You can watch the talk (opens in a new window)here
Seminar 2: Community participation in design and planning in towns
1-2pm, Thursday 4 November
- Dr Sarah Cotterill (UCD Civil Engineering) Community participation with water infrastructure
- Ms Sophia Meeres (UCD Architecture, Planning & Environmental Policy) Talking trees: the future forest and public participation
- Mr Tim Shea (UCD Masters in Regional and Urban Planning graduate) A transatlantic comparison of systems of town regeneration
You can watch the talk (opens in a new window)here
Seminar 3: Just Transition and Irish towns
1-2pm, Thursday 2 December
- Dr Aparajita Banerjee (UCD Business) Just Transitions and the future of small towns in Irish Midlands
- Dr Alma Clavin (UCD Geography) Exploring place-based opportunities for Just Transition policy and practice
- Mr Sean McCabe (TASC - Think tank for Action on Social Change) Just Transition in an Irish context
You can watch the talk (opens in a new window)here
Seminar 4: The border and Irish towns
1-2pm, Thursday 3 March
- Chair: (opens in a new window)Dr Karen Keaveney
- (opens in a new window)Caroline Creamer (International Centre for Local and Regional Development, Maynooth University)
- (opens in a new window)Killian Doherty (Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture)
- Dr Paula McCloskey and Dr Sam Vardy ((opens in a new window)a place of their own)
You can watch the talk (opens in a new window)here
Seminar 5: The Life of Towns through the lens of Public Space
1-2pm, Thursday 7 April
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Chair : (opens in a new window)Dr. Miriam Fitzpatrick, Assistant Professor at UCD
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Eleonore Bascoulergue, current student of Masters in Architecture at UCD: her recent research on photography.of Irish Towns.
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Valerie Mulvin, Architect, author of 'Approximate Formality, Morphology of Irish Towns' (2021), member of Aosdána, and founder of McCullough Mulvin Architects: the design of Irish Towns and her research journey through mapping and photographs.
Seminar 6: Transformations of life & work in towns
1-2pm, Thursday 5 May
- Dr Orla Byrne (UCD School of Business): Overcoming challenges of small business
- John Evoy (General Manager, Grow Remote): Remote working as a key component of developing towns and town centres in Ireland
- Stephen Wall (recent master's student in Architecture, Urbanism, and Climate Action, UCD): The co-benefits of co-working spaces in Irish towns.
Please register on (opens in a new window)Eventbrite.