All Ireland Architectural Research Group (AIARG) Annual Conference 2022

Gary Archibald Boyd (Session chair)
John Tuomey (Speaker)
Dominic Stevens (Speaker)
Katherine Fama (Speaker)
Lia Mills (Speaker)

School of Natural and Built Environment

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Description

'Architecture and its Stories’ is underpinned by optimism and by openness. We invite contributions relevant to the theme from across the architectural humanities and sciences, and from the adjacent disciplines of geography, literature, philosophy, engineering, history, folklore and sociology. Possible themes include :

A critical consideration of oral histories and their role in architectural history
The use of narrative techniques to produce new histories, expanding agency to human and non-human actors, incorporating hitherto excluded perspectives and experiences
The intersection of narrative, science and technology in the development of built form
The role of space and built form in literary narratives - how architecture can drive and shape stories
Narrative and climate change – the role of architectural stories in changing minds and making change happen
Narrative as a design method and tool – past examples and in current practice
These themes are indicative and by no means exhaustive. We are open to proposals for sessions as well as for individual papers or other forms of presentation. Confirmed sessions include ‘Stories of Obsolescence’ and ‘Architectural (Hi)stories: Telling Tales of the Past’.

Period	24 Mar 2022 → 26 Mar 2022
Event type	Conference
Location	Dublin, IrelandShow on map
Degree of Recognition	International

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Story-telling is central to architecture. Whether as academic discipline, as popular discourse or as built form, it has a capacity both to absorb and to transmit stories. Architecture orients us in the world: its elements of walls and ground, of rooflines and footprints frame and structure every episode of our lives. It is a storybook of past and of present, of public and of private, of facts and of feelings. Building on Donna J. Haraway’s tongue-twisting proposition, we consider architecture as the matter and the means of our storyful world: as the ‘knots’ and the ‘ties’ that knot and tie. ‘Architecture and its Stories’ will celebrate and interrogate architecture’s many, multi-faceted narratives. The conference is prompted by the re-emergence of narrative as a subject and method of interest across many fields. In architecture, there has been a renewed interest in narrative as design method, in narrative as a means of expanding and enriching histories, drawing in marginal and excluded voices and experiences, and there has been an increasing recognition of the need for the urgent, overarching narratives of social and climate justice to direct the discipline’s endeavours. At the same time, the humanities have expanded their remit to include consideration of climate and environment. Stories, it seems, can help us to make sense of the environments we have already created and to imagine the ones we need to create in the future. ‘It matters what stories make worlds, what worlds make stories.