Summer School: City Life: Architecture, Art & Design - Dublin

City Life: A Shared Summer School

Celebrated for its rich cultural heritage and history, Dublin is at a crucial point of transition. Currently re-negotiating its approach to urbanity, the city is an exemplar of many of the most critical challenges facing the contemporary global metropolis.

In July 2015 (13th – 31st), UCD and NCAD will join forces to offer a unique summer school programme giving students the opportunity to pursue their disciplinary and scholarly interests through a creative and critical engagement with the ongoing transformation of Dublin today.

 

Revolving around a shared focus in contemporary critical urbanism, participants choose from one of five specialist programme tracks:

• Architecture 
• Culture, Memory & The City
• Interaction Design
• Researching Urban History & Material Culture
• Spatial Arts And Visualization

Programme features: 

• A base in Dublin’s inner city, which will be both setting for and subject of the School’s programme.
• Intensive workshops, studio sessions, plenary lectures and seminars.
• Unique access to leaders in the cultural and creative sectors, including practitioners, artists, museum directors, urban government officials, and critical thinkers.
• A three-week programme progressing from skills acquisition, studio work, and research to final projects to include exhibition, presentation, and publication.
• Accommodation in the heart of the city, minutes from the summer school’s headquarters. 

Further details about individual tracks and practical information are available on our website – ncad-ucd.ie/summer-school - or contact madeleine.lyes@ucd.ie with any queries.