MA ART AND ENVIRONMENT
ONLINE OPEN DAY / 2025
Booking on Eventbrite here: https://www.eventbrite.ie/…/ma-art-and-environment…
The MA Art and Environment Online Open Day will provide information and inspiration about this unique archipelagic master programme.
The MA Art and Environment programme is led by TU Dublin School of Art and Design in collaboration with Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre. It uniquely combines post-studio art practice, interdisciplinary research, virtual teaching, Island Studies and community engagement. Taking contemporary art’s relationship with environments (ecological, spatial, political, economic) as its object of study, the MAAE instructs students in artistic practices shaped by ‘archipelagic thinking’ and a pedagogy that is world-centred. To support these ambitions, the MAAE has developed a distinct, three-part curriculum focused on Mapping, Sensing, and Hacking. Where Mapping gathers historical and empirical knowledge, Sensing promotes sensorial and aesthetic engagement with materials, systems, and environments. Hacking then, encourages imaginative, site-specific interventions that excavate, repurpose, or recompose elements of the environment.
Initiated by Dr Glenn Loughran (TU Dublin) and Ann Davoren (Uillinn) in collaboration with it is the only archipelagic Master’s degree programme on the Island of Ireland. It is supported by a team of artists, lecturers, and researchers in the School of Art and Design (TU Dublin), by the community workers and technicians at Uillinn and the Sherkin Island Development Society (SIDS) and by an international, interdisciplinary network of peers and colleagues.
Schedule
12:00 – 12:20 / What is an archipelagic masters programme? Dr Glenn Loughran
12:30 -12:20 / Uillinn: Connecting Communities. Dir Ann Davoren
12: 40 – 12:55 / Songs on the Horizon. Terry Farnell. MAAE Graduate 2025
12:55 – 13:10 / Sea Skin. Niamh Seana Meehan. MAAE Graduate 2025
13:10 – 1:30 / Q&A
Applications for 2025 can be made at:
MA ART and ENVIRONMENT
For more information, contact: Programme Chair: Dr Glenn Loughran:
glenn.loughran@tudublin.ie
MAAE Website
www.art-environment.com
MAAE Media
https://www.irishtimes.com/…/the-art-of-blended…
https://www.southernstar.ie/…/west-cork-arts-centre…
https://www.irishexaminer.com/…/arts…/arid-41526944.html
Image. Sea Skin. Niamh Seana Meehan (2024)
