The SPAB Approach to preserving vernacular Irish buildings
The SPAB Approach to preserving vernacular Irish buildings
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£5/€6pp - SPAB Members
£6/€7pp - Non-members
Event details
Presented by SPAB Ireland
The first lecture in the 10-part on-line series, 'Conserving Irish Vernacular Houses'
The series is part of the SPAB Ireland Vernacular Irish Buildings Campaign 2021 and is generously supported by the Heritage Council under the Heritage Sector Support Fund 2021
Lecture 1: The SPAB Approach to preserving vernacular Irish buildings
Wednesday 18 August 2021, 19.00 - 20.30
Live Online Lecture
£5/€6 pp - SPAB members
£6/€7 pp - Non-members
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£50/€60 - Non-members
Lecture description:
Authentic belonging really matters. Irish vernacular houses make up a significant element of Ireland’s folk architecture. Made by the people, for the people, they are of their place and ‘fit in’ well. They ‘belong’. Just like buildings, we, humans, find our own belonging and identity in places, amongst the people there. Without belonging we suffer. Places suffer.
Protecting, maintaining, and repairing the original fabric of our Irish vernacular houses – as we find them - using similar and/or complementary materials; and making necessary changes to meet today’s needs, creatively, and in a contemporary way ensures we hand on the genuine article – the real McCoy - to future generations.
Setting an intention to create the possibility of authentic belonging in Irish vernacular houses we warmly invite you to join architect Mary Kerrigan and participate in a unique interactive inquiry into how the SPAB Approach makes all the difference and why that matters.
About the speaker:
Mary Kerrigan
Working at the nexus between people, places, and communities - and their transformation – Mary Kerrigan stands for the possibility of a world that’s truly alive, and full of beauty and belonging. Creating conversations that catalyse communities, Mary is like an alchemist transforming disconnection into connection. A design/conservation architect and specialist community engagement animator, she is the first Irish SPAB Scholar architect to practice on the island of Ireland. In 2018 she was awarded a Getty Scholarship. A transformational leadership practitioner | speaker | coach Mary loves opening peoples’ eyes to what’s unique and special in their places. She works internationally devising and leading cross-cultural, cross-generational, cross sector community empowerment/envisioning processes that equip participants to create new futures, together - that weren’t going to happen on their own.
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Image Credit: Mary Kerrigan