The Open Heart City Collective organises events to equip M.Arch. students and the architectural design teams to find ways to work with the socio-economic, political and cultural constraints in order to facilitate a creative response that can move within those contexts to design a liveable future for the precarious and vulnerable heart of Ireland’s capital city. The work of the Collective is guided by the question ‘How do we act in this space?’ A question we hold with an open heart.
Project Leaders
Professor Hugh Campbell – Head of School of Architecture, Planning and Environmental Policy, University College Dublin
Associate Professor Katherine O’Donnell – History of Ideas, School of Philosophy, University College Dublin
Members
Professor Gary Boyd – School of Natural and Built Environment, Queen’s University, Belfast.
Alice Clancy – Architect, Photographer and Lecturer, School of Architecture, Planning and Environmental Policy, University College Dublin.
Dr Mark Coen – Assistant Professor, Sutherland School of Law, University College Dublin.
Associate Professor Emily Mark-Fitzgerald – School of Art History and Cultural Policy, University College Dublin.
Professor Lindsey Earner-Byrne – Irish Gender History, School of History, University College Cork.
Dr Lisa Godson – Lecturer and Programme Leader, MA Design History and Material Culture, National College of Art and Design.
Dr Cheryl Lawther – Senior Lecturer, School of Law, Queen’s University Belfast.
Declan McGonagle – Founding Director of the Irish Museum of Modern Art.
Associate Professor Laura McAtackney – Department of Archaeology and Heritage Studies, Aarhus University, Denmark.
Dr Dervla MacManus – Architect, School of Architecture, Planning and Environmental Policy, University College Dublin.
Brenda Malone – Curator, National Museum of Ireland.
Dr Samantha L. Martin-McAuliffe – Assistant professor, School of Architecture, Planning and Environmental Policy, University College Dublin.
Claire McGettrick – Adoption Rights Alliance & Justice for Magdalenes Research Co-founder; Irish Research Council Postgraduate Scholar, School of Sociology, University College Dublin.
Dr Luke Moffett – Senior Lecturer, School of Law, Queen’s University Belfast.
Professor Sean O’Connell – School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics, Queen’s University Belfast.
Dr Maeve O’Rourke – Lecturer in Human Rights and International Human Rights Law Clinic Director, Irish Centre for Human Rights, National University of Ireland, Galway.
Dr Jennifer O’Mahoney – Lecturer in Psychology, Waterford Institute of Technology.
Dr Eoin O’Mahony – Postdoctoral Research Fellow, School of Geography, University College Dublin.
Professor Emilie Pine – School of English, Drama and Film, University College Dublin.
Dr Martin Quinn, Senior Lecturer, Management School, Queen’s University Belfast.
Dr Ellen Rowley – Research Fellow, School of Architecture, Planning and Environmental Policy, University College Dublin.
Associate Professor Douglas Smith – School of Languages, Cultures and Literatures, University College Dublin.
Associate Professor James M Smith – English and Irish Studies, Boston College.