On the eve of Dublin City Council’s new Development Plan, 2022 – 2028, Trinity Long Room Hub asks a panel of experts: where next for the capital’s civic future? - Valerie Mulvin is delighted to take part in this discussion at 7pm on Wednesday 9th February 2022.

In 1922 -- the year of Ulysses, James Joyce’s love letter to his native city -- Dublin of the future: the new town plan was published by Patrick Abercrombie, Sydney Kelly and Arthur Kelly, having won a competition launched by The Civics Institute of Ireland to gather ideas for the city’s development. One hundred years on, and on the eve of Dublin City Council’s new Development Plan, 2022 – 2028, we ask: where next for the capital’s civic future? Can Dublin citizens look forward with confidence in the management of our city? Or have recent controversies around the redevelopment of Dublin’s civic and cultural spaces compounded the suspicion that corporate interests come before the public good? And what must we secure, or sacrifice, as we build for sustainability?

In this Behind the Headlines discussion on the planning of Dublin, we ask our panellists what the historic development of Ireland’s cities can tell us about the capital’s future; how architecture and urban design should respond to changing social needs; and what it means to take responsibility for the civic identity of one of Europe’s greatest cities.

Panel speakers:
David Dickson, Professor Emeritus, Trinity College Dublin.
Valerie Mulvin, McCullough Mulvin Architects.
Owen P. Keegan, Chief Executive, Dublin City Council.
Frank McDonald, Author and Former Irish Times Environment Editor

Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin, Committee Organiser with ‘Dublin Is Dying’

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Listen to Valerie Mulvin speaking about the event on Near FM here.