Open House Europe - Open House Dublin 2025

Open House Europe Annual Summit – The City Invites

 

The IAF hosted the second Open House Europe Annual Summit in Dublin Castle in January 2025.The Summit gathered 900 people, including delegates from 24 Open House festival cities, for a unique opportunity to explore and discuss how accessibility and inclusion can reshape cities into places that are open, vibrant and welcoming for all.

The Summit’s title, The City Invites, captured its essence — a call to action and a challenge to imagine cities as places that embrace diversity, celebrate inclusion, and thrive on collective creativity.

Public Programme
Open House Europe Visual Stories Exhibition
The City Imagined – A discussion on Dublin, thirty years in the making
The City Belongs – Participatory democracy in city design and planning
The City Reused – Unlocking potential in the city that is already built
The City Includes – Housing for a city, accessible to all

White on black graphic of all funder and partner logos.

 

About Open House Europe

Open House Europe is a cooperation project that connects Open House festival organisers across Europe and enables their collaboration and knowledge exchange. By encouraging and promoting an interest in architecture among various audiences, Open House Europe helps residents gain new perspectives on their local surroundings and invites them to envision the shared future of European architecture.

Project Partners

Open House Athens and Thessaloniki (Open House Greece), Open House Bilbao (Asociación Open Urbanity), 48h Open House Barcelona, Open House Brno (Culture and Management Club), Open House Dublin (Irish Architecture Foundation), Open House Essen (Forum Kunst & Architektur), Open House Praha, Open House Roma, Open House Stockholm, Open House Lisboa (Lisbon Architecture Triennale), Open House Slovenia (AFRONT zavod za prostorsko inovativnost), Open House Milano, Open House Tallinn (Mittetulundusühing Eesti Arhitektuurikeskus), Open House Valencia, Open House Vilnius (Architektūros fondas).

This cooperation project unfolds a multi-layered view of quality architecture across Europe and unites people of all professions, interests and visions – from volunteers and curious enthusiasts to young and experienced professionals and organisations.

Together we aim to connect through our built environment, and facilitate a common ground between the creators of architecture and its users. Open House Europe encourages and promotes an interest in architecture among various audiences, helps them gain new perspectives on their local surroundings, and invites them to envision the future of architecture in Europe.

The project is coordinated by Architektūros fondas and co-funded by the European Union.

Open House Dublin 2025

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