Ailbhe Cunningham
Practice Architect, MRIAI
Ailbhe is an architect MRIAI who works collaboratively with communities of place and interest and engages in cross-disciplinary collaboration and participatory knowledge exchange to generate resilient, regenerative urban landscapes. She is founding director of AMPLE SPACE, an architectural design studio in Cork City. She is a founding member of Cork Community Land Trust, an emerging, cross-disciplinary group investigating alternative community-led methods and structures for providing housing and amenities in Ireland. She is a commissioned architect in Self Organised Architecture’s Reimagining Elderhood project, which explores 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.
Darren O’ Connor
Spatial Practitioner, Architectural Assistant
Darren is a spatial practitioner engaged in expanded practice, co-design and activism within art and architecture. Darren is a recent graduate of B.Sc. Architecture at UCC/MTU. Darren is a project coordinator at TEST SITE project, an Architectural Assistant at AMPLE Space and an Archive Assistant at Cork LGBT Archive. 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.