Dublin Institute of Technology’s annual Regeneration Conference takes place in DIT Grangegorman on Friday afternoon, 9th December between 12 and 5pm. This year we have some great speakers from Rotterdam, Belfast, Dublin and Galway. They will discuss the immediate need to provide affordable housing; refurbish existing buildings in cooperation with communities, as well as tackle the global challenge of climate change.

The speaker presentations will be fifteen minutes long and there’ll be plenty of time for questions and discussion afterwards. We’ll also fit in a whistlestop walking tour of the new award-winning DIT Grangegorman campus. We start with sandwiches and refreshments, and after the conference concludes you’re invited for a craft beer in the Orchard Inn on Grangegorman Lower, close to the venue.

St. Laurence’s is in the heart of the new Grangegorman Campus. There’s ample bike parking on site, and the new campus is a few minutes walk from the 46A bus route on the North Circular Road. It is just over ten minutes walk from the Luas Red Line Smithfield stop. There is no parking on site, but Smithfield car park is ten minutes walk away on Queen Street.

The schedule for the day is as follows:

12.00 pm Registration, St Lawrence’s, DIT Grangegorman (across the road from the Clock Tower Building), Grangegorman Lower, Dublin 7

12.30 pm Tour of DIT Grangegorman led by:

Terry Prendergast, Grangegorman Development Agency, and Dr. Paul Horan, Head of Campus Planning, Dublin Institute of Technology

1.00 pm Sandwich lunch, St Lawrence’s

1.30 pm Keynote Gert Jan te Velde, Vanschagen Architects, Rotterdam

-regenerating post-war social housing in the Netherlands

2.00 pm Panel 1 Future cities in an age of uncertainties, Chair Dr. Deiric Ó Broin

Professor Barry McMullin, Dublin City University

-Planetary Boundaries and Societal Resilience: peering (reluctantly) into the Age of Consequences,

Clare McKeown, Sustainability Manager, Belfast City Council

-reimagining cities for resilience

Philip Lawton, Lecturer in Human Geography, Maynooth University

-urban public space and creativity

3.00 Afternoon refreshments

3.30 Panel 2 New models of human settlement, Chair, Ciarán Cuffe

Jim Keogan, Former Assistant Chief Executive (Planning and Development), Dublin City Council

-a vision for Dublin’s Docklands

Brid McGrath, Head of Social Policy, Respond! Housing Association

-creating vibrant, socially integrated communities

Patrick Lydon, Rosie Lynch and Mark Dwan, Camphill Communities of Ireland

-Nimble Spaces: creating inclusive neighbourhoods

4.30 pm Plenary

5.15 pm Launch of Irish Journal of Social, Economic and Environmental Sustainability by Professor Brian Norton, President, Dublin Institute of Technology

Followed by a Craft Beer at Barber’s, formerly the Orchard Bar, Grangegorman Lower