• May 29 - May 30
  • 9.30am - 5.30pm

Book your ticket for the RIAI & AoU Conference 29-30 May

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Date:
Wednesday 29 May 2024 - Thursday 30 May 2024
Time:
9.30am - 5.30pm
Cost:
Location:
The Hardiman Hotel, Galway
RIAI CPD:
6 Structured CPD per day

Event Information

Building on last year’s very successful event and on the principles of the Greater Galway Charter the 2024 conference will focus on Planning, Designing and Delivering the 21st Century Neighbourhood.

RIAI Members can book with a 10% discount by using the code RIAImember or via the link.

Meet the Speakers 

The conference will hear from a range of national and international experts who have first-hand experience of delivering lifelong liveable neighbourhoods. The conference will include the voices of a wide range of those involved in place-making, included policy makers, local representatives, architects, planners, urban designers, engineers, developers, community activists and local residents.


Cany Ash
Cany Ash is a co-founder of Ash Sakula Architects, one of the UK’s leading housing and regeneration architects. Award-winning projects include the Malings, a new riverside neighbourhood in Newcastle-upon-Tyne and the Wickside project. A common theme in their work is a focus on community wealth building as part of the construction of a sustainable architectural culture.

Arno Goossens
Arno Goossens is a strategic city planner for the city of Amersfoort, which was awarded the Urbanism Award for European City of the Year. During the last 18 years he has been involved in formulating many of the major policy developments in the city regarding structural planning.


Jonny  McKenna
Jonny McKenna is a Partner at Metropolitan Workshop Architecture and Urbanism and serves on the RIAI Urban Design Committee and on DCC’s Strategic Committee for Planning and Urban Form. Jonny specialises in residential-led master planning and housing and has particular skills in regeneration and public engagement.

 

Conference Themes:

The discussion will pick up on one of the themes of last year looking at Emerging Galway and the potential for this city to chart a way forward for smaller cities generally.

International Perspective:  The conference will present evolving international best practise in urban design and place-making with speakers from cutting edge smaller cities across Europe and the UK.

Planning:  It will explore recent progression in the areas of vision led and participative planning and how these new methodologies can be applied to reimagine and remake our cities, towns and neighbourhoods.

Participation: It will examine how communities can be engaged in shaping and delivering the liveable, sustainable and affordable neighbourhoods which we so desperately need in responding to the twin challenges of climate change and housing.

Principles: It will examine how the principles enshrined in the Greater Galway Charter can be used to support innovation in design and delivery and will look at how Galway can be an exemplar in this area.

Practise: The two days of presentations and discussions will be of interest to Architects, Engineers, Planners, Urban Designers, Community Groups and Development Agencies, Builders and Developers, Policy Makers and all involved in looking to shape and deliver Sustainable, Liveable and Affordable future neighbourhoods in our towns and cities.

The Conference qualifies for CPD points for a number of professional bodies.

The programme is available below. It is subject to change.

The conference is jointly organised by the RIAI, Academy of Urbanism and Galway City Council.