3. Rosie Lynch | Callan Workhouse Union | COLLABORATION

In this concluding episode of a three part podcast introduction on collaboration in architecture, design and space making, host Emmett Scanlon talks to Rosie Lynch, the Creative Director of Callan Workhouse Union. They speak at length about one project, Nimble Spaces - New Cultures of Housing. This is an ongoing housing project being made in Callan for and in collaboration with the Camphill Community. Rosie describes the research process of inventing new methods to discuss and debate and eventually design homes, working with a range of artists and architects. This data is gathered and then translated into a housing project for 26 residents which is due for construction in 2021. The project highlights that new ways and means are necessarily needed when we seek to offer agency and a voice to those often excluded from processes of spatial provision and design. Drawings and models and the usual language of architecture often fail in new participatory planning processes. Situated in the former Workhouse in Callan, the building is now home to an array of local and civic functions and uses, reappropriating this building in new ways into the lives of those who live and work in Callan. Music is by Rachael Lavelle.