Architecture At The Edge

Architecture At The Edge Architecture at the Edge (AATE) is not-for-profit organisation
established in 2017 dedicated to the promotion of architecture as culture.

AATE is an independent, not-for-profit organisation dedicated to the making of great places across the West of Ireland. AATE is composed of a multi-disciplinary team combining expertise and extensive experience in architecture, planning, visual art, design, social science, education, research and community engagement.

Cois Cuain Chorr na Mónaby Helena McElmeel Architects, Joanna McGlynn and Scoil Mhuire Exhibition + Culture Night Launc...
10/09/2026

Cois Cuain Chorr na Móna
by Helena McElmeel Architects, Joanna McGlynn and Scoil Mhuire

Exhibition + Culture Night Launch

At Corr na Móna Pier, art, architecture and community come together to explore new ways of experiencing Lough Corrib, its islands and its edges.

Following a series of workshops with local pupils from Scoil Mhuire, Corr na Móna, the project brings young people’s ideas and connections to the lake into the public realm.

A temporary installation will form the centrepiece of the project, accompanied by a series of interactive interventions across the surrounding landscape.

Together, they invite visitors to look at the lake and its environment from different perspectives.

The launch will also bring local musicians and performers to the pier for an evening of collective gathering and celebration — recognising the imagination of the students and their engagement with public space.

_Doirín na Locha, Corr na Móna, Co. na Gaillimhe
Launch: Friday 18 September
6:30pm
FREE - all are welcome, no booking required
The artwork and installation will remain open to visitors until Sunday 20 September.

Designed in collaboration with: Helena McElmeel Architects, Joanna McGlynn and Scoil Mhuire

Supported by: Corrib Beo, Coiste Forbartha Corr na Móna, Inland Fisheries, Seid na bhFear Dhuiche Sheoigheach, Glassworks Tuam, Fiachra Davoren, Paul Coyne and ECC Timber Products

Funded by: Architecture at the Edge and the Arts Council, Creative Ireland and Galway County Council

Helena McElmeel Architects

Pálás an Phobail — tasting a sense of placeby Blanka Major + Hinterland Interactive Exhibition + Creative Workshop + Ar...
09/09/2026

Pálás an Phobail — tasting a sense of place
by Blanka Major + Hinterland

Interactive Exhibition + Creative Workshop + Artist Talk

What makes us belong to a place?

For Culture Night Late, Architecture at the Edge is collaborating with architect, artist and curator Blanka Major and Hinterland to explore the connections between food, people and place.

At the heart of the evening is Pálás an Phobail — a “People’s Palace” — an edible installation where gathering, eating, listening and exchanging ideas come together around a shared table. Moving through a series of spaces and sensory encounters, the evening explores how food connects us to landscape, memory and belonging — inviting us to quite literally taste a sense of place.

As part of Culture Night Late, the evening unfolds across Galway through a series of connected experiences: beginning with an outdoor installation on Druid Lane, continuing with a Ceremonial Tea at The Mick Lally Theatre, followed by Pálás an Phobail at Festival Printworks Gallery, with the film screening of Les Glaneurs et la Glaneuse, and culminating at The Mick Lally Theatre with Cathedral AKA Shampain and Blanka Major’s DJ Set.

Across these spaces, food, sound, stories and spatial interventions come together to explore belonging, place and new forms of gathering.

_Festival Printworks Gallery, Market St.
Friday 18 September
7–11pm

FREE — prebooking essential. No registration, no entry.

With contributions from Professor Anna Davies, Geography, Trinity College Dublin, and Michael Higgins, Political Liaison & Systems Change Lead, Bohemians Co-operatives.

_Curators Talk with Blanka Major
The Mick Lally Theatre, Druid Lane
Sunday 20 September · 5–7.30pm
Free — prebooking advised via Eventbrite.

‘Pálás an Phobail - tasting a sense of place’, is part of the Culture Night Late programme, funded by the Arts Council and the Department of Culture, Communications and Sport under the Night-Time Economy programme with support from Galway City Council Arts Office. Galway City Council The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon

Supported by ProHelvetia, The Swiss Arts Council as part of the LINA Architecture programme. Pro Helvetia LINA

Níl aon tinteán mar do thinteán féin:Hearth to Hearth through Galway Citywith Róisín Mc Loughlin Cultural Walking TourW...
09/09/2026

Níl aon tinteán mar do thinteán féin:
Hearth to Hearth through Galway City
with Róisín Mc Loughlin
Cultural Walking Tour

What can the hearth tell us about how we gather?

This guided cultural walk explores the hearth as more than an architectural feature - as a place where stories are shared, ideas debated, relationships formed and communities sustained.

Moving through four historic locations in Galway City: Tigh Neachtain, Galway Arts Centre, Nora Barnacle’s House Museum and The Kings Head - the walk uncovers stories of politics, literature, creativity, domestic life and belonging.

Responding to Architecture at the Edge’s 2026 theme, ‘Le Chéile’, the walk invites us to think about the spaces that bring us together, and to reflect on our own understanding of home, community and belonging.

_Meeting point: Tigh Neachtain
Sunday 27 September
12 noon

FREE - all are welcome, no booking required

Nic Lochlainn Róisín

Galway

Fire Structuresby Ambacht Exhibition + WorkshopWhat can the fire tell us about how we gather?Fire Structures explores ...
08/09/2026

Fire Structures
by Ambacht
Exhibition + Workshop

What can the fire tell us about how we gather?

Fire Structures explores the role of fire in early human gathering and pre-modern architecture, looking to Irish settlement structures from the Grooved Ware period (3000–2400 BC). The installation reinterprets a circular enclosure and central hearth through large-scale cyanotype prints, study drawings and interlocking stools by Nocht Studio, creating a space for gathering, looking and making.

The exhibition culminates in a cyanotype print workshop with Adela Gomez, where participants can create their own prints and collectively develop the “living” print beneath the symbolic hearth.

_Exhibition
Festival Printworks Gallery, Market St.
17–27 September
Tue–Sat 11am–6pm | Sun–Mon 12-5pm

_Artist Talk / Workshop
Sunday 27 September, 1-3pm
Festival Printworks Gallery, Market St.

FREE entry - all are welcome, no booking required.

KinStools by Nocht Studio, courtesy of the KinShip project. nocht.studio

Ambacht

Welcome to the 10th edition of the Architecture at the Edge Festival, Le Chéile - the Architectures of Belonging. PROGRA...
08/09/2026

Welcome to the 10th edition of the Architecture at the Edge Festival, Le Chéile - the Architectures of Belonging. PROGRAMME IS LIVE!
From September 17th to 27th, discover a vibrant programme of exhibitions, talks, tours, workshops, panel discussions and screenings across Galway and the West of Ireland.
Frank Monahan, Director of Architecture at the Edge, says about this year’s festival:
“This year, we want to encourage people to think about new ways of practising architecture, and how involving local communities in decision-making can strengthen our sense of belonging and encourage greater participation in social life.
At the heart of it is a simple invitation: to have people at the table, to create spaces where we can come together, share ideas and shape our communities — le chéile.”
And this year, the theme invites us to explore what belonging can look like in practice and how architecture can help create the conditions for a more connected, participatory society.
The full programme of events is LIVE on
architectureattheedge.com with tickets available online too, via the link in bio or Eventbrite.
Among the highlights, AATE26 will present ‘A System for Ordinary Housing’ was highly commended in the 2026 RIAI
Silver Medal for Housing, alongside settle, a temporary public interior by TRESTLE exploring gathering and belonging through food and place. For Culture Night Late, with Pálás an Phobail, curated by architect Blanka Major in collaboration with Hinterland and Cathedral (AKA Shampain), will bring together food, sound, architecture and conversation across Galway. The festival will also unveil 14 Flags of Belonging along Druid Lane, celebrating the city’s communities and a nod to the 14 Tribes of Galway.
We can’t wait to share this year’s journey with you!

| 17 Sep - 27 Sep 2026
9 Galway & West of Ireland
• More info in bio & website

Cover image: Johanna Hullár STUDIO HULLÁR for Blanka Major event

Content creation by Take a Siesta Studio



Architecture at the Edge Festival acknowledges the support of its core funders at The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon, and its valued friends & sponsors:

galway

Your Seat at the Tableby Ailbhe Cunningham / Ample Space & Leo Keller / grundfunkel Interactive Exhibition + Workshop +...
07/09/2026

Your Seat at the Table
by Ailbhe Cunningham / Ample Space & Leo Keller / grundfunkel
Interactive Exhibition + Workshop + Artist Talk

What does it take to turn a house into a home?

Your Seat at the Table invites us to share the everyday experiences of inhabiting our homes and neighbourhoods — from the barriers to having a safe and secure home, to the things we hold dear and want to protect.

Through making, conversation and storytelling, the project asks us to make visible the conditions that help turn a house into a comfortable, safe and meaningful home.

There’s no one way to tell your story.
Use your voice, your hands, your ears, your heart.

_Exhibition
17–27 September
Festival Printworks Gallery, Market St.

_Workshop
Saturday 19 September, 12–2pm

_Artist Talk
Sunday 27 September, 2–3pm

FREE entry — all are welcome, no booking required.
Workshop materials and tools will be provided.

Co-designed by Ailbhe Cunningham, Ample Space & Leo Keller, grundfunkel, with support from Kevin Donovan & Paddy Dolan, TU Dublin.

Part of a wider research project funded by Research Ireland, in conjunction with TU Dublin and the RIAI.

Leo Lu



© Take a Siesta Studio

The Chloran Síle Flagby Miriam de Búrca & Áine Phillips Exhibition + TalkWhat happens when an object taken from a place...
07/09/2026

The Chloran Síle Flag
by Miriam de Búrca & Áine Phillips
Exhibition + Talk

What happens when an object taken from a place becomes a symbol of identity, resistance and belonging?

The Chloran Síle Flag represents a Sheela-na-gig taken from a site in Westmeath during British occupation and held in the British Museum since the late 1800s. The flag reclaims the Síle as a symbol of women’s power, body autonomy and resistance, while confronting the colonial histories behind the removal of Irish cultural treasures.

At the heart of the work is a call for restitution and repatriation: Síle come home.

_Exhibition
17–27 September
Festival Printworks Gallery, Market St.
Tue–Sat: 11am–6pm / Sun–Mon: 12–5pm

_Talk
Sunday 20 September, 2–3pm
Festival Printworks Gallery, Market St.

FREE entry - all are welcome, no booking required.

settleby TRESTLE ExhibitionWhat makes a public space feel like somewhere we can settle?settle is a temporary architectu...
07/09/2026

settle
by TRESTLE
Exhibition

What makes a public space feel like somewhere we can settle?

settle is a temporary architectural installation exploring the idea of the public interior as a space for gathering and collective experience. Inspired by the adaptability and functionality of Irish vernacular furniture, TRESTLE uses a considered arrangement of objects that can be reconfigured to host different events, gatherings and ways of occupying space.

A temporary public interior — and an invitation to the city to come together.

_Exhibition
Festival Printworks Gallery, Market St.
17–27 September
Tue–Sat 11am–6pm | Sun–Mon 12–5pm

FREE entry - all are welcome, no booking required.

Supported by the Arts Council of Ireland. The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon





© Take a Siesta Studio

Your Seat at the Tableby Ailbhe Cunningham & Leo Keller Interactive Exhibition + Workshop + Artist TalkWhat does it tak...
07/09/2026

Your Seat at the Table
by Ailbhe Cunningham & Leo Keller
Interactive Exhibition + Workshop + Artist Talk

What does it take to turn a house into a home?

Your Seat at the Table is a creative, participatory project inviting us to share our everyday experiences of inhabiting our homes and neighbourhoods. Through making, conversation and storytelling, the project explores the things that make a home feel safe, comfortable and truly ours - including the barriers that can stand in the way.

Everyone is invited to take a seat at the table and share their story in whatever way feels right for them.

_Exhibition
17–27 September
Festival Printworks Gallery, Market St.

_Workshop
Saturday 19 September, 12–2pm

_Artist Talk
Sunday 27 September, 2–3pm

FREE entry — all are welcome, no booking required.
Workshop materials and tools will be provided.

A collaborative project by Ailbhe Cunningham of Ample Space and Leo Keller of Grundfunkel, with support from Kevin Donovan & Paddy Dolan, TU Dublin.

Supported by Research Ireland, TU Dublin and the RIAI.
Leo Lu



© Take a Siesta Studio

Mayo Atlasby Aidan Conway, MarMar Architects ExhibitionWhat can a landscape reveal when we look closely enough?Mayo Atl...
07/09/2026

Mayo Atlas
by Aidan Conway, MarMar Architects
Exhibition

What can a landscape reveal when we look closely enough?

Mayo Atlas is an ongoing research project exploring the built environment and landscapes of County Mayo. Using detailed 3D models created through photogrammetry and LiDAR scanning, Aidan Conway explores individual sites through ecology, local history, geology, archaeology, construction, material, form and adaptation.

The exhibition brings together 11 sites, each forming a short story within a shared context, alongside collaborations with Aisling McCoy, Peter Molloy, Lottie Mac and Claire Kinsella.

As part of Aidan’s wider research into Mayo’s built environment, Book of References will also be exhibited at The Linenhall in Castlebar from 20 September – 2 October.

_Exhibition
Festival Printworks Gallery, Market St.
17–27 September
Tue–Sat 11am–6pm | Sun–Mon 12–5pm

_Artists Talk
Festival Printworks Gallery
Sun 20th 13-14h

FREE entry - all are welcome, no booking required.
Supported by The Arts Council (Project Award)
Tri-County Arts Council



MARMAR

© Take a Siesta Studio

Address

Druid Lane
Galway
GALWAY

Website

Alerts

Be the first to know and let us send you an email when Architecture At The Edge posts news and promotions. Your email address will not be used for any other purpose, and you can unsubscribe at any time.

Shortcuts

Share

Category