ALL-IRELAND ARCHITECTURE RESEARCH GROUP

History of Town Planning

Arts and Crafts Movement

History of Walking

Democracy and Architecture

Forthcoming -  ‘Supertramp, Raymond Unwin’s Town Planner’ Chap. in Writing the Modern City: Perspectives on Literature, Architecture and Modernity’, Routledge

Sep 08 ‘Transport us to Eternity and Fill us with Bliss’ Chap. in The Lives of Spaces, IAF and UCD Catalogue of Ireland’s Participation in 11th Architectural Biennale, Venice

Sep 07 ‘eBay and Google in Dublin’ (with Dr Hugh Campbell) Chap. in e-book, Global Cities/Local Sites, University of Melbourne Press, Melbourne

Spring 05 ‘Landscape in the Work of John McGahern’ building material 13, AAI, Dublin

Autumn 04 ‘Notes On Niemeyer’ building material 12, AAI, Dublin

Brian Ward

283 Captains Road

Crumlin

Dublin 12

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Boundaries, Urbanism, Architecture and Conflict

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I am currently involved in the Queen's University Belfast research project "Planning for spatial reconciliation", which is ultimately targeted towards building institutional capacity among key stakeholders in planning and regeneration to:

(a) empower them to address more innovatively and effectively the issues of division and reconciliation relating to the sectarian geographies of the spatially segregated society that endures in Belfast;

and (b) appreciate the potential of new approaches such as spatial and community planning for proactive and civically-inclusive forms of peace-building.

I consider myself to be a research-minded architect with a strong affinity towards urban theory, urban planning and urban policy.

I am currently involved in the research project "Planning for spatial reconciliation", which is ultimately targeted towards building institutional capacity among key stakeholders in planning and regeneration to empower them to address more innovatively and effectively the issues of division and reconciliation relating to the sectarian geographies of the spatially segregated society that endures in Belfast.

Institute of Spatial and Environmental Planning

School of Planning, Architecture & Civil Engineering

Queen's University Belfast

David Keir Building, Stranmillis Road

BT9 5AG Belfast

Urban design and planning

I am currently research stairs as architectural spaces rather than architectural elements. My research hopes to explore the pyschological and phenomenological character of stairs. How this intensely physical space is perceived and how this perception is translated into symbolism and metaphor in art, literature and cinema.

Urbanism, Urban Design, Architecture

Architect, art historian, artist and art curator.

Currently a doctoral candidate at UCD School of architecture I am researching the catalysts, conditions and contributions of architectural and art collaborations to the practice and dissemination of architecture.

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Built Environment education

Higher Education assessment

Sustainability

Timber frame construction

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I am a registered Architect and a Planning and Development Valuer. I have variously worked ;- as an architectural assistant in commercial architectural practices, as studio master for 7 years in UCD School of Architecture, as a developer of inner city mixed-use properties, as an Irish furniture design gallery owner, as a technical expert for local community development, as a principle of an ecological architectural practice.  I have also served voluntarily on public and voluntary sector boards such as Comhar, IEN, RIAI Sustainability Task Force, BREG Advisory Board, Environmental Pillar, and currently, on the Tipperary Energy Agency.

I have been an advocate of sustainability since 1980 firstly as a community architect for social change and since mid 90s mainly for environmental objectives. I co-founded Feasta, the Foundation for the Economics of Sustainability in 1998. I am currently director of EOS Future Design a small multi disciplinary practice that develops real and virtual systems for sustainable living in both the built and natural environments.

• Better ways to plan, develop and finance settlements;- similar the two stage process that the improving Irish landlords used so well in the 18/19th Centuries.

Specifically, I am exploring a commons approach where the land is held in trust separately from buildings; also new relationships between architects, clients, users and builders that eschews private competition and public patronage. I set up and participate in the Community Land Trust Initiative to promote CLTs and, recently the Design Team Cooperative to facilitate development of land held in trust by various bodies.

• Sustainability in the built and natural environment. In particular distributed energy and waste systems using anaerobic digestion and pyrolysis for energy and soil fertility.

I am just finishing an EPA funded 'Agrichar' project that carries through 'PBx2' Report SEAI funded learnings re inter laia use of biochar to reduce emisisons from Irish agriculture. I am Chair of the newly formed Biochar Cooperative.

• New banking and credit systems for the above. Working with the Irish Public Banking Forum previously and now irish Rural Link to establish local owned banks along the German Sparkassen model in Ireland.

'Community Land Trusts ': Article in Housing Ireland Magazine. Autumn 2015

'The Magic of Public Banks': An interview with Ellen Brown. The Village Magazine. November 2014

'The Fair Tax' Book : Editor and Contributor. Published by Shepeard-Walwyn ( London) 2012

'Local Energy Resilience': Section in 'Aspriations for ireland' Ed. Susannah Kingston. Published by The Columba Press (Dublin) 2 010

'Cutting Transport and Emissions through Integration': Chapter in Fleeing Vesuvius Book , Ed. Richard Douthwaite and Gillian Fallon. Published by Feasta (Dublin) 2010

EOS Future Design

39 Windsor Road, Rathmines, Dublin 6

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