There are many ways to present your work and communicate your ideas with other people.

Get your project up on this website!

Get in touch with the IAF Education team on education@architecturefoundation.ie

We would be delighted to post up your project in the blog section, just send us some images and written articles. Include a list of names of everyone involved.

Exhibition at school:

Display your project work at school. If you can, choose somewhere brightly lit which is visible to students, teachers and visitors. Use neat labels to present the title of the project and any explanatory text.

Exhibition in public place:

See if you can organise an exhibition of your work in your local public library, civic centre, arts centre or gallery. It’s always worth asking!

Another possibility is to ask a friendly local business if they have a window space or other suitable area to host your exhibition for a short time.

For both types of exhibitions, it’s a good idea to organise a presentation to launch the exhibition and get people looking at and talking about the work.

Presentation Events:

A brief guide…

Planning your event: Who is your audience? Consider who you’d like to invite. It could be your class, your year group, the whole school, parents etc.

How does it work? Ask someone to give a brief introduction to the project. This could be a student, a teacher or an architect or someone else from the community.

Next, get each student-team to do a short presentation on their work. Nominate someone from each team to introduce the project and describe what the exhibited work is about.

At the end of the presentation, ask your audience if they have any questions or comments in a Q&A (question and answer session).

School Newsletter

Write a piece for the school newsletter or create a new zine about your project. Photographs or other images will make it the article stronger and more memorable.

Local media

Get in touch with your local newspaper and/or radio station. Suggest that they interview you about your architecture project.

School Exhibition
Fourth Year students of St. Paul’s College Raheny presented their project to the rest of the school. Maps, models and films were on display, with students standing by to discuss their projects with the audience during a one-day exhibition

Presentation Event
Students from Beara Community School, West Cork took part in a presentation event at Triskel Arts Centre, Cork. They displayed their exhibit and  3 of the TY students did a stage presentation. Each said a few words about their architecture project -what they liked and what they learnt.

Beara CS presenting their project at the Triskel Arts Centre, Cork during the exhibition tour of A Space for Learning

Local Media
Local newspaper and radio are always looking for good stories and they love to hear about creative projects by young people.

Some of the newspaper headlines about A Space for Learning, from newspapers all over Ireland

 Exhibitions
The exhibition showcasing the 10 winning projects from A Space for Learning toured to venues across Ireland:
NCAD Gallery, Dublin (National College of Art and Design) Nov 2010 -Jan 2011
VISUAL, Carlow (July 2011)
Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast (September 2011)
Triskel Arts Centre, Cork (October 2011)
Regional Cultural Centre, Letterkenny (March 2012)

The exhibits were created by architects working with teams of secondary school students. Exhibits included models, drawings, posters, films, installations and furniture designs. Here are some examples of the range of exhibits:

Students from St. Mary’s Mallow putting the finishing touches to part of their exhibit, a model made from surprisingly ordinary materials, such as cotton wool balls and nuts & bolts from a toolbox.

Details of model made by St.Mary’s Mallow students with architect Paul O’Brien from CHORA Design.

Another element of the Mallow exhibition consisting of digital drawings rendered in 3D software, showing how the students ideas would look in professional presentations.

Mallow TY students with the whole exhibit, consisting of models, collages and digital drawings. The exhibit is titled “Inside Out Centre”

Idir architecture and students from Dundalk Grammar School created this giant map of Dundalk “School (E)Scape” for the exhibition A Space for Learning. It was printed on vinyl using the same method as advertising banners. The audience were encouraged to walk on it and to add their own notes using pencils provided.

“Parkland for Learning” is the title of the exhibit by students of St. Dominic’s Ballyfermot working with GreenanRed Architects. This “cabinet of ideas” contains models, photographs and drawings produced during A Space for Learning workshops.

models for “learning cubes”, made from diverse materials

“Plotlines” exhibit by Limerick’s Castleroy College with Donoghue Corbett Architects.
The cabinet’s drawers and cupboards contain models, castings and drawings by students

Students from St. Patrick’s Cavan, with their exhibit “Palace of Rooms”, made with NJBA+U