Toby Blackman is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape at Newcastle University. Toby is interested in an expanded field of practice, conducting teaching and scholarship at the intersection of site-writing, architecture, film and photography. He has exhibited at the Royal Scottish Academy Summer Exhibition, and his work was Highly Commended in the 2019 Blueprint Architecture Photography Awards and 2022 Architecture Foundation Writing Prize. In his current work, Toby is exploring the house, the home and the situated practice of the architect — drawing on the discourses of feminist film theory and site-writing to explore the embodied, hidden and ambiguous experience of architectural temporality.

Gillian Brady is an Assistant Lecturer at ATU Sligo and PhD candidate at the School of Architecture, Planning and Environmental Policy, UCD where she is examining housing preferences and the resilience of low-rise, low-density suburban models. She has previously worked for Níall McLaughlin Architects, M.CO and the Office of Public Works.

Peter Carroll is Head of Architecture at The University of Limerick. He is Director of A2 Architects, an architectural practice with an abiding interest in quality of life and architecture for all. Alongside Peter Cody, Mary Laheen, Joseph Mackey and Elizabeth Hatz, Peter represent Ireland at the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2023 with ‘In Search of Hy-Brasil’.

Christakis Chatzichristou, PhD., Currently an Associate Professor of Architecture at the University of Cyprus. Received his first degree in Architectural Engineering in 1986 from the University of Texas at Austin and a Master of Architecture in 1991 from the same institution. Awarded a PhD. in Architecture from the Bartlett School of Graduate Studies at the University College London in 2002. Received a number of awards in architectural competitions and participated in the Venice Architecture Biennale for Cyprus in 2006 and 2008. Selected to curate the Cyprus Pavilion at the Architecture Venice Biennale in 2010.

Paul Clarke is Professor of Architecture at the Belfast School of Architecture and the Built Environment where he runs a vertical teaching studio across undergraduate and postgraduate years called WaterLands. This studio has explored the coastal edges, rivers and islands of Ireland over a number of years. Outwith studio teaching he lectures on history and theory and is a member of the school’s Architectural Research Group, where he supervises a number of PhDs, one of which is on the history of architectural education and the school’s unique vertical teaching structure. He leads the research cluster Drawing: Methodology, Making and Media. His research explores drawing as a material substance in itself, and to consider the potential of the translatory nature of drawing. 

He was born and trained in Glasgow and has collaborated and worked with many different architects, artists, composers, and filmmakers on a range of works, exhibitions and events. He is an External Examiner at a number of architecture schools in the UK an is a Lead Examiner for the Architects Registration Board. With Phaidon he collaborated on a number of publications in their Architecture and Detail series. He was part of an expert advisory panel working on the restoration of the Glasgow School of Art and in particular that of the Library. He has drawings in the collections of The Centre for Scottish Design at the Lighthouse, The Royal Scottish Academy and the Glasgow School of Art.

He was the curator of a two-year touring exhibition and research project called The Secret Laboratory on Architects’ sketchbooks. He directed and produced the film Drawing on Life which has been shown at a series of International film festivals, and with Peter Maybury he produced a folio collection of architect’s notebooks called Notations. His recent publication with mackbooks was on the Smithson’s Upper Lawn pavilion. He is a regular contributor to Drawing Matter.

Brenda Duggan is a design lecturer and researcher at Technological University Dublin. She teaches visual communication at BA and MA level. Her current practice-based doctoral research, at Sheffield Hallam University, questions visible/visual language as material-discursive practice. This is an inquiry examining boundaries between human and more-than-human ways of knowing, with interaction as a sensing, affecting and aesthetic practice.

Mark Durkan is an artist with a mobile practice that traverses Europe. His work involves creating temporary active communities that are collaborative and context led. Current work explores the experiential potential of co- created fictional realities. Engaging with the architectural presence of a space and the people that embody it, he transposes identity with alibi to explore a joint idiom of value and threat. Mark Durkan has led projects and exhibited extensively, including in Project Arts Centre, Kevin Kavanagh, Dublin Castle and the City Gallery Hugh Lane in Dublin, ZhdK in Zurich, Zair Azgur Museum in Minsk, The Museum of Moving Image in New York, Via Farini in Milan, 3331 Arts Chiyoda in Tokyo and German Chancellery in Berlin.

Jan Frohburg teaches design studio and lectures on the history and theory of twentieth-century modern architecture at the newly established School of Architecture at the University of Limerick. A graduate of the Bauhaus University Weimar, he studied, practiced and taught architecture in Germany, Great Britain, Switzerland, Ireland and the United States. His research interests include design education and the spatial expression of modernity, focusing on concepts characteristic to the work of Mies van der Rohe; he has presented and published on both aspects nationally and internationally. His doctoral thesis interrogates Mies’s Concert Hall collage of 1942 and the conditions that enabled its production at a turning point in the architect’s career. Jan remains in creative practice and contributes regularly to the All-Ireland Architecture Research Group, continuing to explore the past and present of modern architecture in Ireland.

Uncertain Futures is a collaborative working group started by Cillian McGrath, Rory McDonald and Oliver Redmond in 2020. We are friends who studied architecture together and had similar outlook and interest about more socially engaged work. Having all started working in traditional practices we felt somewhat alienated and separate from the industry and its relationship with capital and the consequences, realities and limits of this model of practice on cities, society and the planet. We were uncertain about our own futures and began thinking about what alternative modes of practice might look like. We are interested in design as a form of collective empowerment, story telling, drawing and working in a way that values the voices of everyone.

Cillian McGrath studied architecture in Dublin and graduated in 2018, he pursued a research masters in TUDublin in 2021 that explored how architecture is shared, produced and interacted with as content online. He has worked in architectural practice and works in TUDublin, researching and teaching architecture in the undergraduate course.

Rory McDonald is a multi-disciplinary designer based in Dublin. He studied architecture in the Dublin School of Architecture, DIT. After some time working professionally in architecture offices, Rory has transitioned into a practice of graphic design and illustration. In 2021 he completed an MA in Communication Design in NCAD exploring non-professional forms of design and the apparent divide between the general public and design culture and discourse. Day to day, Rory works in Dublin based graphic design studio, Post Studio.

Oliver Redmond studied architecture in Dublin School of Architecture. Since graduating he lives and works in London and practices in an architecture office that focuses on social housing delivery. His area of interest lies in interpretations of scale within built and rural environments, this interest has led Oliver to pursuing a masters in journalism that explores the political agency of peripheral urban ecologies. 

Giulio Galasso is an architect and researcher based in Zurich. 

He graduated from Politecnico di Milano, IUAV and TU Munich, and he is currently a researcher at the Chair of Christ and Gantenbein at ETH Zurich. His field of research is XX century Italian middle-class housing and he lectured at Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio, TU Delft, FAUP Porto, Biennale svizzera del territorio, ENSA Paris Val-de-Seine, and Politecnico di Torino. 

He is a recipient of the LINA Fellowship for the years 2023-24, and he runs continentale, an architecture practice based in Zurich. 

Mike Haslam is a lecturer and studio lead at School of Architecture, Building and Environment (SABE) TU Dublin and has been an exponent of sustainable design for over 25 years. He is director at Haslam & Co Architects (HCoA) and former co-director at Solearth Architecture in Dublin – both practices committed to green architecture. He is a graduate of the Universities of Edinburgh and Bath, UK and is a registered architect and member of the RIAI, RIBA and the IGBC. He has published papers on architecture and green design and his research has included applications of round-wood structures; Slow Architecture; building health (bau- biologie) and an M.Phil at TU Dublin researching Natural Ventilation strategies as part of NZEBs.

Kathleen James-Chakraborty is professor of art history at University College Dublin. She currently holds a European Research Council Advanced Grant for a project entitled “Expanding Agency: Women, Race, and the Global Dissemination of Modern Architecture. ERC project: Expanding Agency: Women, Race, and the Global Dissemination of Modern Architecture.

Merlo Kelly is a Grade 1 Conservation Architect, and a Design Fellow and Doctoral Researcher at University College Dublin. She is an elected member of the Irish Architectural Archive and ICOMOS. In 2012, she was awarded the ICOMOS Rachel MacRory Award for her Masters in Urban and Building Conservation (MUBC) thesis on Luke Gardiner and the development of north Dublin. This research led to her book An Introduction to the Architectural Heritage of Dublin North City (2015). Research forms an integral part of her teaching and practice, and Merlo has disseminated her research in several publications and public lectures, contributing chapters to Portraits of the City – Dublin and the Wider World (2012), More than Concrete Blocks vol.1 (2016), vol.2 (2018) and vol.3 (2023), Malton’s Views of Dublin (2021), States of Entanglement (Annex, 2021 Venice Biennale) and James Hoban: Designer and Builder of the White House (2021).

Colin MacSuibhne studied architecture Technical University Dublin (TUD). Post graduation he worked for Ryan Kennihan Architects for several years. He completed a design research based Masters of Architecture at TU Dublin in 2019. In January of 2020, he established the architecture practice REIR working as a team of five on a variety of projects from small scale extensions, exhibitions and extensions to schools. He was awarded the 2020 Architecture Bursary from the Arts Council of Ireland, which was used to facilitate some continued research into the use of ceramics as part of our architecture culture. He is an assistant lecturer in TU Dublin.

Aisling Madden is undertaking a PhD in Architecture at Queen's University Belfast, funded by ESRC via NINE DTP. Madden is interested in using both quantitative and qualitative methods to analyse urban fabric. They previously investigated the characteristics of the demolished area of Sailortown in Belfast, and are now exploring the impact of density on social housing residents' everyday life. A qualified architect, Madden has experience in residential projects at a range of scales.

Nicola Matthews is a Senior Architect in National Built Heritage Service, Dept. of Housing, Local Government & Heritage, a diverse and busy role which includes the development of a range of progressive national policies for cultural heritage including, the National Heritage Plan 2030, the National Policy on Architecture, all informed by European policy development such as the first EU architectural policy - Towards a shared culture of Architecture, the New European Bauhaus and the prestigious Europa Nostra European Awards for cultural heritage. Nicola's role as Senior Architect provides opportunity to identify information and practice gaps which has prompted on-going research to understand the cultural significance of Irish towns and cities to support policy development for heritage-led regeneration.

Dr Agustina Martire is a senior lecturer in architecture specialised in the study of everyday streets, their fabric, histories and experiences, through the StreetSpace project. Martire is especially interested in the way people experience the built environment, and how design can enable a more inclusive and just urban space.  Martire has worked in schools of architecture in Buenos Aires, Delft, Dublin and Belfast and collaborate with a range of government and non-government organisations to explore ways in which housing, mixed use and mobility can provide more sustainable and inclusive cities for all.

Peter Maybury is an Irish multidisciplinary artist. His practice-based research encompasses works as an artist, graphic designer, filmmaker, publisher, writer, editor, curator, musician, and educator. He is a graduate of Central Saint Martins, London, and is a Doctoral Candidate at the Centre for Socially Engaged Practice-Based Research, TU Dublin. He has collaborated extensively with artists and institutions, editors and curators, on more than 200 art and architecture publications. Peter is a longstanding collaborator with Tom dePaor, making books, films, and works for exhibition. Their Gall imprint has published 12 titles to date including Irlanda: of de Blacam and Meagher (2010), part of their co-curation of the Irish Pavilion at the 12th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia. Peter lectures in Visual Communication at TU Dublin.

Cillian McGrath studied architecture at the Dublin School of Architecture and graduated in 2018. I work practice in Dublin on variety of projects such as town renewal plans and urban housing projects of various scales. Recently he completed a research masters in TU Dublin that explored how architecture is shared, produced and interacted with as content online. He is a member of ‘Uncertain Futures’ who explore design as a form of collective empowerment and recently collaborated with Workhouse Union Callan as part of the Town Ecologies programme with Ballykeeffe amphitheatre community group. He is an assistant lecturer in TU Dublin.

John McLaughlin is a practicing architect and Associate Professor/Senior Lecturer in Architectural Design at CCAE in University College Cork. His eponymous architectural practice has won many awards including the Arthur Gibney Prize from the RHA in 2019 and the RIAI Award for Research in 2021. He co-edited the book Infrastructure and the Architectures of Modernity in Ireland 1916-2016 (Routledge, 2017) with Gary A. Boyd.

https://johnmclaughlin.ie

Kyriakos Miltiadou is an architect based in Nicosia, Cyprus. He graduated from the Architecture School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Dipl. Arch AUTh) in 2015, where he ranked first in his year. He continued his studies at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, by undertaking post-graduate research in the Advanced Architectural Research course (PGCAAR), graduating with distinction in 2017. In 2022 he received the National Architecture Award in the category ‘Project of Young Architect’. He is currently a PhD Candidate at the School of Architecture, University of Cyprus where he also teaches the course ‘Architectural Communication Media’. His PhD studies are supported by three grants from ‘Sylvia Ioannou Foundation’, ‘IKY’ and ‘Evagoras Scholarship’.

Cheryl Momo is a recent graduate with a Master’s degree in Design Research from Bauhaus Foundation in Germany. Her thesis focused on the significance of objects during the transitional period. Prior to this, she transitioned into interior design after earning a diploma in Architecture, marking an early sign of her longstanding research interest. She also holds a Bachelor’s degree in Art in Interior Design from the Glasgow School of Art, where her final year research delved into the impact of religious objects in Burmese houses. With over five years of experience in residential interior and architecture design in Singapore, Cheryl continues to explore the tension between life and design. She investigates how design and life shape each other highlighting the significant influence of human interaction on the built environment, objects and things within it, fostering mutual growth and adaptation.

James O'Leary is an architect and installation artist. He is Associate Professor and Programme Director for the MA Situated Practice Programme at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London.  As one half of the collaborative partnership Kreider + O’Leary he makes performance, installation and time-based media work in relation to sites of architectural and cultural interest. Since 2003, Kreider + O’Leary have made work in places such as prisons, military sites, film locations, landscape gardens, desert environments and more traditional gallery venues across the UK, USA, Europe, Australia, South America and Japan. Their work has been shown at venues including Tate Britain, Whitechapel Gallery and the Royal Academy of Arts and internationally at the Lisbon Architecture Triennale and the Istanbul Biennial. They have co-authored two books: Falling (Copy Press, 2015) and Field Poetics (Ma Bibliothèque, 2018). See: http://www.kreider-oleary.net

Dr Siobhan Osgood completed her PhD at Trinity College Dublin 2023, funded by the Irish Research Council. Her thesis, Building the Great Northern Railway (Ireland): Design, Communication and Construction, researched style, material and construction of the company’s characteristic brick-branded railway stations, and the evolution of engineering draughtsmanship through the training and education of the company’s engineers. She received the Desmond Guinness Scholarship (2021), was awarded the studentship prize for the Society of Industrial Archaeology (USA) conference in Chicago (2019). Her master's thesis passed with Distinction and was awarded the UK’s Association for Industrial Archaeology’s Dissertation Prize in 2017, published as a peer-reviewed article in their journal, and as an edited chapter in the Louth County History and Society book (2023). She is currently the Teaching Fellow in the Department of Art and Architectural History at Trinity College Dublin. Follow her research at Irish Railway Architecture on X and Instagram: @IrishRailArch. 

Patrick Quinlan studied architecture in UCD, graduating in 2008. His fourth year dissertation, To have and to hold, a study of landscape management and attitudes in the Suir Valley, was awarded a Commendation at the international RIBA President’s Medals Student Awards in 2007. Patrick specialised in healthcare architecture for several years before moving to pursue his lifelong interest in conservation and historic buildings. He completed a Masters in Urban and Building Conservation at UCD in 2014 and in 2021, he published a monograph on the architectural history of Ireland’s lunatic asylums with UCD Press, titled Walls of Containment, the Architecture and Landscapes of Lunacy. In November 2023 he submitted his thesis for the award of PhD at Birkbeck, University, titled Interpreting Institutional Architecture: the Long Lives and Layered meaning of Ireland’s Lunatic Asylums.  (supervisor, Prof. Leslie Topp, examiners, Prof. Christine Stevenson and Prof. Richard J Butler). 

Maša Ruane Bratuša (MArch, MSc Arch, MRIAI) is currently lecturing in the Atlantic Technological University where she is the Coordinator of the Fifth Year Architecture programme. She is currently undertaking PhD studies with a research interest in the role of language and semantics in the production and understanding of architecture.  

Dr Anna Skoura is a postdoctoral researcher specialised in urban heritage and public engagement.   Skoura's background includes working on architectural conservation projects in the private and voluntary sector in Brussels and Belfast, before completing their PhD on urban heritage. Skoura is interested in bringing together methods from the humanities and social sciences to study urban spaces, the way people use them, their history and heritage. 

Dominic Stevens is a practicing architect, writer and teacher. His work has been exhibited in Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, The Guggenheim Museum, New York, Botkryka Konsthall, Stockholm, The Swiss Foundation for Architecture, Mendrisio and the Venice Biennale of Architecture. His writings about architecture have been widely published. His forthcoming book “Architectural Stories’ will be published by Gandon Editions in 2024. He is a member of ARENA, the European Architecture Research Network and in this capacity he is active in organizing conferences, membership of scientific committees and the publication of research. He is a lecturer in TU Dublin and director of JFOC Architects.

Stephen Wall is a researcher currently engaged in PhD research at University College Dublin, studying the New European Bauhaus and its impact on the low-carbon transition of Irish towns. Stephen previously worked as an architect, educator, and illustrator, and sits on the working group of UCD’s Centre for Irish Towns. He was awarded the UCD Young Urbanist Prize in 2021 and was selected for exhibition in the Irish Architecture Foundation’s Housing Unlocked competition in 2022.Stephen has contributed to publications of UCD's Building in a Climate Emergency research group. 

Dr Caroline Watkinson (University of East London) is currently researching the history of women architects and how an awareness of this history might better shape architectural pedagogy and practice in the future. She is also working with Alan Chandler on a book about UK Literary Heritage focused on decolonisation, class, queer perspectives, and concepts of

national identity. She teaches courses on feminist art and architecture alongside interdisciplinary modules for postgraduates on research theory and methodologies.