RESOURCES
Transmedia resources around This is Where We Live.
Dublin could be heaven: Frank McDonald reimagines the capital
'Dublin could be heaven' writes Frank McDonald as he looks at the opportunities #covid19 presents to re-think and re-imagine the city, and step away from some of the negative trends which have stripped living communities from the city centre.
BBC StoryWorks - Building communities
When the coronavirus pandemic hit and many countries went into lockdown, the impact was felt across the world. Not only was our health at risk but our work and home lives were enormously disrupted. In housing development, it meant that construction sites emptied, work came to a halt and a spike in unemployment made the need for safe, affordable homes even greater than ever. Now, as parts of Europe begin to tentatively emerge from Covid-19, we are seeing public, cooperative and social housing associations more focused than ever on delivering safe and affordable homes, which also strive for sustainability.
Davis Now Lectures: MAKING HOME 2020
Podcast Series - 'Clearing Hovels and Building Homes: an Architectural History of Irish Housing' by Dr Ellen Rowley, architectural historian and consultant editor of the series.
Through The Cracks
A short documentary exploring the unique challenges faced by families living in emergency accommodation.
‘Through the Cracks’ explores the experiences of three families who have or are currently living in state-funded emergency accommodation. Our film explores the unique challenges faced by families living in emergency accomodation. In particular, our film focuses on the emotional and psychological toll on these families – highlighting the long-term mental health consequences for parents and children growing up in homelessness.
Where We Live 2020
Where We Live is an explosive 10 day festival of new work from THISISPOPBABY that interrogates and celebrates what it means and how it feels to live in Dublin and Ireland right now, from some of the best storytellers and makers on the Island.
The 4th Act
The 4th Act examines regeneration, memory and loss in the Dublin suburb of Ballymun, through a rich local video archive collated over decades.
How can a new government get house building underway?
Orla Hegarty, Architect and Assistant Professor at the School of Architecture at University College Dublin; and Dr Lorcan Sirr, Senior Lecturer in Housing with the Technological University Dublin, discuss what the new government must do to get housing construction underway. Morning Ireland, 11/02/2020
Inside Out Outside In, Stories from O'Devaney Gardens
The redevelopment of O'Devaney Gardens, a public housing complex in Dublin, has been much in the news recently with the controversial Dublin City Council decision to approve a deal which sees a private developer, Bartra, get public land to develop a new complex with just 30% public housing and a mix of what's been described as 'affordable' housing (where the houses will be bought back at market price and discounted in what has been described as a remarkably poor return for public money) and private.
There's a good background piece here and you can hear Dublin City Council's Brendan Kenny defend the deal in this podcast with us.
Here's a film 'Inside Out, Outside In' by Joe Lee about the community at the heart of O'Devaney Gardens made in 2013.
The NERI Podcast Ep7 Tackling Ireland's Housing Crisis
In this episode, Orla Hegarty and Dr Michael Byrne discuss problems in the Irish housing market with NERI economist Paul Goldrick-Kelly and give their take on solutions to addressing those problems.
HOUSING FINANCIALIZATION TRENDS, ACTORS, AND PROCESSES
Extensive pdf guide on the financialization of housing by the European Action Coalition for the Right to Housing and to the City.
14 Henrietta Street
Set in a Georgian townhouse, 14 Henrietta Street is a museum that tells the story of the building’s shifting fortunes, from family home and powerbase to courthouse; from barracks to its final incarnation as a tenement house.
Listen to our podcast with curator and architectural historian Dr Ellen Rowley.
Herbert Simms City
This short film by Paddy Cahill observes some of Simms designs, while we hear Nell Regan’s poem inspired by him, and Irene Buckley’s original musical composition.
'Owning The Sky or The Flats that Simms Built' by Nell Regan was commissioned by Simms120. Original Music Composition by Irene Buckley
Jeanette Lowe Photography: Pearse House
Photographer Jeanette Lowe captures what she calls 'invisible' communities in the heart of Dublin's social housing; like the Herbert Simms designed flat complex Pearse House off Pearse Street, where her mother was reared.
Listen to our podcast with Jeanette taking us on a walk through Pearse House
UCD Housing Story Maps
Short online presentations on Dublin’s housing with interactive story maps, featuring Joe Brady.
Listen to our podcast with Joe Brady walking us through the history of Marino, Dublin
PUSH (2019) Official Trailer
Housing is a fundamental human right, a precondition to a safe and healthy life. UN Special Rapporteur for Housing Leilani Farha’s movement The Shift demands a different paradigm: those who are homeless and inadequately housed must be treated as rights claimants and key actors must implement the right to adequate housing in a new urban rights agenda.
PUSH is a new documentary from award-winning director Fredrik Gertten, investigating why we can’t afford to live in our own cities anymore.
Housing co-op sells Dublin houses for €140,000
Irish Times video profile of Ó Cualann Cohousing scheme in Poppintree, Ballymun.
Listen to our podcast interview with Ó Cualann CEO Hugh Brennan.
HOME - documentary by Gansee Films
Home is a documentary short telling the story of people who have come from homelessness and are now, with the help of the Peter McVerry trust, getting the homes they need. We see interviews with those people involved, hear their stories and find out what it means to have a home. Produced by Gansee Films. (2015)
Moving On
The movie tells the story of two young homeless people who are rehomed in a Peter McVerry Trust project in Dublin 8 in a former derelict Dublin city council building. The project is funded by global building material company Saint Gobain. This movie shows the true nature of homelessness in Ireland today. (2015)
RTÉ Archives - House and Home
From the chronic housing shortages of the 1960s to the boom and bust years of the early 21st century, the RTÉ Archives show how in less than 50 years, Ireland went from a critical housing deficit with often appalling living conditions to a property glut resulting in ghost estates across the country.
Take a look also at some Irish housing of the past, from medieval Dublin to Georgian homes in various states of neglect and preservation, and see the traditional use of stone in construction.
CYCLING WITH ELLEN
Ellen Rowley is an Architectural Historian who lives with her family in Ballybough, Dublin.
Ellen takes the viewer on a cycling tour around parts of Dublin that often goes ignored, the architecture of the 20th Century and her special interest the social housing schemes by the former prolific city architect Herbert Simms. (2012)
Credit: Paddy Cahill & Michael Ryan
Irish Times video by Enda O'Dowd on architect Herbert Simms and his social housing complexes in the city
Two Dublin flat complexes, designed by renowned architect Herbert Simms, face demolition following a decision to initiate their removal from the Record of Protected Structures (RPS).
The council’s housing committee has voted to start the process of “delisting” Pearse House and Markievicz House so that the dilapidated flats can be demolished and replaced with “decent modern accommodation”.
Residents of the two complexes on Townsend Street in the south-east inner-city have long campaigned for the redevelopment of their blocks and recently protested outside the council’s officers over a rat infestation.
Credit: Enda O'Dowd, The Irish Times
Inside 14 Henrietta Street, Dublin's newest museum
14 Henrietta Street – Georgian townhouse to tenement dwelling
Set in a Georgian townhouse, 14 Henrietta Street tells the story of the building’s shifting fortunes, from family home and powerbase to courthouse; from barracks to its final incarnation as a tenement hall.
The stories of the house and street mirror the story of Dublin and her citizens.
video credit: Donal Corkery, The Irish Independent; article by Pól Ó Conghaile