PLACE
OBG and PLACE have collaborated on several events including the major symposium: Lives and Spaces: Art, Architecture and the Public which took place on 25th March 2010
This symposium looked at the intersection of art, architecture and curating in the public realm, through exhibitions, public art and the built environment.
A range of speakers from backgrounds in art, architecture, curating and commissioning came together to address overlapping issues facing these professions. The symposium aims to initiate dialogues to better support healthy collaboration and communication between these areas.
Speakers included:
- Chair: Professor Hugh Campbell: Professor of Architecture (UCD) and Co-Curator of ‘The Lives of Spaces
- John Reid: (Robinson McIlwaine Architects)
- Nathalie Weadick: Director of Irish Architecture Foundation (IAF)
- Denis Byrne: Architect and Curator of Darcspace Architecture Gallery
- Jo Anne Butler and Tara Kennedy: (Culturstruction)
- Chair: Michael Hegarty: Director PLACE
- Barrie Todd: Ministerial Advisory Group (MAG)
- Robert Kidd: Urban Regeneration & Community Development Group, DSD
- Doug Elliott: Owner/ Founder/ Managing Director of four Belfast organisations
- Ailbhe Murphy: Dublin based Visual Artist and co-founder of Vagabond Reviews
- Chair: Marie Louise Muir: BBC
- Noirin McKinney: Director of Arts Development, Arts Council Northern Ireland
- Philip Napier: Visual Artist and Head of Fine Art/ Sculpture at NCAD
- Annette Moloney: Curator + Collaborator and Public Art Specialist with Arts Council of Ireland.
- Ciaran Mackel: (Ard Architects)
OBG and PLACE have also worked on other workshops and events such as the Belfast Sculpture Journey with Sinead Bhreathnach Cashell which took place on 6th November 2010.
OBG looks forward to working with PLACE in 2011, in particular in taking part in the ‘Somewhere to..’ project. For more information on this project please click here.
