Launch and discussion with Aisteach Housing Co-operative Society and Peter O’Grady and Laura Ferry.

What is ‘home’ to people in Ireland today? How might it reflect wider societal changes? With Ireland’s demographic enriched by immigration we believe a diverse population need to be represented in Housing discussions.

Join us for an evening of conversation, poetry, readings, music, and drinks at the Bí Linn and Squashed Living exhibitions at Charlemont Walk.

Bí Linn: An Aisteach Exhibition

Aisteach invites you to bígí linn, be with us, while we present our ongoing community work in Ireland, individual artistic and architectural pursuits and research, and international case studies which present alternative housing arrangements and economic development models not currently widely represented in Ireland.

Bí Linn, hosted by the IAF in its exhibition space and info hub on Charlemont Walk, will share works engaging with the notion of queer housing and domesticity. It will not reveal a queer future, nor does it claim to know how to achieve one, but instead simply engages with the subject, critiquing existing housing structures, and finding joy in confronting the normative ways we are expected to live with one another. Works include installation, photography, sculpture, illustrations, architectural studies, film, poetry and more.

Aisteach Housing Co-operative Society Limited is a group working on setting up a queer housing co-operative in Dublin.

Squashed Living Exhibition

This exhibition opens windows into how others live, documenting diverse living situations across Dublin and beyond. From young professionals to direct provision, the exhibition seeks to allow you to understand the ways that others experience housing. Housing is supposed to make our lives more comfortable, and particularly in the context of a crisis of scarcity this often isn’t the case.

Investigating Dublin’s culture of habitation, Squashed Living is a project led by Peter O’Grady and Laura Ferry. The project is supported by the Irish Architecture Foundation through the Open House Dublin Open To All call for ideas.