Ailbhe is an architect MRIAI and researcher engaged in cross-disciplinary and participatory design and people centered, creative evaluation & knowledge exchange. She is founding director of AMPLE SPACE, working collaboratively with communities of place and interest to generate resilient, regenerative landscapes. Through her lecturing and research at TUDublin Ailbhe is developing creative & collaborative people centered evaluation techniques. She is a commissioned architect in Self Organised Architecture’s Reimagining Elderhood project, which creatively evaluated ageing and housing in Ireland. In 2020, she co-founded TEST SITE – a collaborative art, architecture and ecology project that activates a vacant site in Cork city centre.
Ailbhe Cunningham
Architect, MRIAI and Researcher
Darren is a spatial practitioner engaged in expanded practice, co-design and activism within art and architecture. Darren is currently completing an M.Sc. Redesigning the Post-Industrial City at UNIC and is a graduate of the B.Sc. Architecture at UCC/MTU. Darren is a project coordinator at TEST SITE project, an Architectural Assistant at AMPLE Space. Outside of education, Darren has been actively engaged in developing their own spatial practice, both through volunteering in several communities organisations that engage with situated and collaborative architecture alongside forming their own personal projects. As an artist, Darren is interested in the notions of identity, memory, and sense of place. Darren engages in projects that uncover the history of a site through mapping, drawing, and researching.