PLACE

24/02/2020

Ever wanted to ? As part of RSUA is hosting drinks and nibbles with a panel of female architects. Come along and ask a question or just to chat over what you might be able to do.

https://www.rsua.org.uk/events/ask-an-architect/ask-an-architect-salon/

Thinking about booking through but not sure where to begin? As part of we're hosting drinks and nibbles with a panel of female architects. Join us on Tuesday 10th March at the Sunflower Public House & Live Music?

https://www.rsua.org.uk/events/ask-an-architect/ask-an-architect-salon/

07/02/2020

Dreaming of a building project? Then ask an architect is for you. For a minimum £40 donation to you can take advantage of an hour-long appointment with a friendly architect-no strings attached. Choose from 30 practices right across Northern Ireland.

https://askanarchitect-ni.com/

06/11/2019

In May 2019 the Linen Quarter BID produced a new vision to help shape the future development of the district. In the last four years £250m of new hotels and offices have been delivered. In the next five years the District will see a brand new Transport Hub, a redeveloped BBC building, and flagship offices for Deloitte and Kainos. The N-S Glider extension, the Gasworks foot/cycle bridge, and a swathe of new public realm will also be underway. Yet so much more can be done, and this is your opportunity to help shape the debate.

Join the Cafe Conversation https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cafe-conversations-tickets-79003285955

If you are interested in urban design, sustainability or social regeneration then please join us for a café conversation at Pug Ugly’s.

04/11/2019

Architects Ian McKnight and Alastair Hall are giving a talk on their current international design work and the ‘Unique instruments, Expectant Spaces’ installation (currently installed in the Belfast Campus Foyer). Tomorrow 6pm.

https://www.ulster.ac.uk/artsandculture/events/hall-mcknight-public-talk

Talk by architects Ian McKnight and Alastair Hall on their current international design work and the ‘Unique instruments, Expectant Spaces’ installation ( currently installed in the Belfast Campus Foyer)

01/11/2019

If you are interested in urban design, sustainability or social regeneration then please join Linen Quarter for a café conversation at Pug Ugly’s, Thursday 7 Nov from 5-7pm.

https://linenquarter.org/news-events/news/cafe-conversations/

If you are interested in urban design, sustainability or social regeneration then please join us for a café conversation at Pug Ugly’s, Thursday 7 Nov from 5-7pm.

26/09/2019

Daniel Libeskind is coming to Belfast to deliver a keynote public lecture on architecture and the built environment. Tickets are selling fast - don't miss out...

https://www.rsua.org.uk/events/lectures/rsua-building-inspiration-lecture-2019-by-daniel-libeskind/

RSUA in partnership with ARUP and Belfast City Council is delighted to announce Daniel Libeskind of Studio Libeskind will deliver the annual Building Inspiration Lecture in Belfast on Friday 11 October 2019.  The Building Inspiration Lecture is a public talk in Belfast delivered by one of the world...

17/09/2019

Positive news on PLACE. RSUA - Architects in Northern Ireland has agreed an initial plan to keep the work of PLACE alive and explore future possibilities. See more detail here:

https://www.rsua.org.uk/news/rsua-agrees-initial-plan-for-regeneration-of-place/

RSUA Council has today agreed an initial plan to sustain elements of the programme of work carried out by PLACE and to establish a Committee to explore the regeneration of PLACE. The plan follows the closure of PLACE at the end of August 2019. Under the plan RSUA will establish a PLACE Committee and...

11/09/2019

28/08/2019

19/08/2019

Urgent: anyone Belfast-based with a van who can help us today? We have a no-show. Paid, obviously!

15/08/2019

Hi again! We still need your help. If you can lend us a hand we'll be very grateful. We'll be here all day. Thank you.

12/08/2019

We need your help! Could you spare a few hours to help us clear our space this week? We're here today, tomorrow (Tuesday 13) and Thursday (15). There's a lot of sorting and occasional heavy lifting. If you're happy to support us in these last few difficult days, then give us a call on 02890232524. Thanks!

05/08/2019

18/07/2019

New episodes of PLACE's podcast, The Infinite City, this July - https://mailchi.mp/f406cfb0f37d/theinfinitecity_july2019

11/07/2019

Ulster Architectural Heritage say 'Belfast’s architecture is one of our City’s, most important, valuable, and yet under-valued, principal art forms.'

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10/07/2019

Just published: our podcast, The Infinite City, is back for a special Summer Season this July. First episode is part 1 of a live episode with Aisling O'Beirn and Garrett Carr, stream now from our website or find it in your favourite podcast app: http://www.placeni.org/theinfinitecity/summer-season-2019-episode-1-aisling-obeirn-and-garrett-carr

The Infinite City is our podcast. Through it, we tell stories of people and place, design and belonging, survival and celebration in Belfast & beyond. ​Supported by Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios &...

04/07/2019

As the marketing building on the former Sirocco site is demolished, we wanted to share this video from the launch of last year's Open House Belfast - which, it turns out, was the first and last event to be held in that building over its 10 year history. Thanks to our partners at Waterside, who granted us and audiences access to the site.

20/06/2019

Also launching this evening: Urban Intervention, curated by Mirjami Schuppert.

Urban Intervention deploys strategies similar to the ones used on the “TBC” tag campaign associated with the Cathedral Quarter redevelopment plans. The campaign aroused social media fury and inspired creative engagement with Belfast city centre by local arts organisations.

Historical news and media imagery from the UTV Archive, printed onto posters and scattered around the Cathedral Quarter, are brought into the present day to coexist with contemporary life. Alongside printed material, selected UTV archive footage enters into the commercial and not for profit spaces in the area. Roaming TV monitors are hosted by local shops, cafes and organisation, creating chance encounters with the old films, displaying longer glimpses of the programmes used as source material for the posters. The presence of various temporalities in the streets of the city highlights the difference that time and perspective can make; what once was taken as true, through the passing of time may be revealed to be lies.

Urban Intervention is part of Belfast Photo Festival 2019. This is part of the PRONI, Northern Ireland Screen Digital Film Archive and ITV partnership project to preserve the UTV Archive for future generations.

This week look out for televisions in Belfast's Cathedral Quarter:

Previous locations: Windsor Photoprints (17 North Street), Belfast Exposed (23 Donegall Street), A Sailor’s Grave Tattoo Studio (139 Royal Ave), (PS2, 71 Royal Avenue), Established Coffee (54 Hill Street) and the Black Box (18-22 Hill Street). The original archive footage will appear throughout the festival in this special online collection: https://digitalfilmarchive.net/collection/urban-intervention-109

20/06/2019

Belfast StreetSpace Exhibition Opening tonight at 6pm! Free, all welcome. We're delighted to be hosting this amazing project again this year. Congratulations and thanks to Agustina Martire Urquijo and her student cohort Queens University Belfast, as well as all of the participants and workshop facilitators. The material generated from this year's workshop is stunning, and we can't wait to share it with you all. See you later!

13/06/2019

We're currently installing materials for Kate Catterall's forthcoming workshops taking place tomorrow and Saturday. If you've pre-booked to join us, we look forward to seeing you there. We also have a few walk-in spaces available for Saturday, and a So What? Making Research Public event on Sunday (more information: https://www.facebook.com/events/564007247339440/)

If you can't make it along, you can always catch up on Kate's Infinite City podcast 'Remembering the Ring of Steel' here: http://www.placeni.org/theinfinitecity/season-1-episode-2-kate-remembering-the-ring-of-steel

06/06/2019

Just today and tomorrow left to catch the Queen's University Belfast end of year show. Open until 8pm tonight! Queen's Architecture Society

05/06/2019

PLACE newsletter June 2019 - forthcoming workshops, events and exhibitions https://mailchi.mp/dff0e62cdbf3/newsletter-june-2019

05/06/2019

SUPERSTUDIOS 2019 opens Ulster University Belfast School of Architecture and the Built Environment at 6pm, Friday 7 June. Can't wait to see what everyone has been working on!

16/05/2019

Invitation: Memory and Meaning in Downtown Belfast, plus architecture tour and exhibitions - https://mailchi.mp/cdcb593ba98c/invitation-workshop-tour-exhibitions-june2019

11/04/2019

PLACE update from board - https://mailchi.mp/3f5a90639ff5/public-update-from-place

You will be aware that last Wednesday 3 April 2019, PLACE was notified by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland (ACNI) that our application for core and programme funding for 2019/20 has been declined. While this news has been deeply disappointing for us, we have been encouraged and buoyed by the m...

11/04/2019

Words of support... from Seedhead Arts "It's been a week since PLACE received the devastating news of a 100% funding cut from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland.

It's hard to articulate the level of disbelief and anger that we at Seedhead feel about this insane decision. There are other organisations which we are angry for (Terra Nova Productions in particular), but PLACE is an organisation to which we owe a particular debt. At a time when we were just setting up Seedhead, PLACE was an organisation who were prepared to take risks on some of the mad ideas we had. Open Source Belfast was an amazing project that really kick started our interest in meantime space and Hit the North only exists because PLACE were prepared to partner with us on it in year one. Just two examples.

But that's the easy part. That's actual STUFF that happened. PLACE is about so much more than that. PLACE changed how we felt about cities and Belfast in particular. PLACE made us think about meantime space in a way translated into Vault Artist Studios. PLACE gave people the language to be able to articulate the arguments which made the Save CQ campaign a success. PLACE showed us a lens with which to interrogate how the built environment works which in turn enabled Adam to make Culture Night Belfast a success in his time there. And so it goes on...

These ripples, this lens, that VOICE is invaluable to Belfast. At a time when finally people in power are coming round to the ideas of place making and a more wholistic approach to public space and planning, the Arts Council decide it's not worth funding the only organisation dedicated to advancing this debate? It's beyond belief.

We stand with our friends.
We stand with their agenda for change.
We stand with PLACE."

09/04/2019

PLACE newsletter April 2019 - a thank you to our supporters, plus April/May exhibitions and events https://mailchi.mp/85980d20e7d1/newsletter-april