Sunday 21 Oct, 5pm
Sonic Lab, SARC, Cloreen Park
Tickets: £5 from Belfast International Arts Festival

We are so excited to tell you about our first live show, which is coming up really soon!

It's a joint event as part of Open House Belfast 2018 and the Belfast International Arts Festival. We will take over the Sonic Lab at the Sonic Arts Research Centre in Belfast with our panellists on the night, Agustina Martire, Darran Anderson, Garrett Carr and Aisling O'Beirn.

Plus we'll have musical performances from Arborist and Die Hexen and a reading by Eunice Yeates. 

It promises to be a really enjoyable evening of chat about public space, architecture and city life in Belfast and beyond. We can't wait to meet our listeners in person!

Get your tickets now for only £5 from the Belfast International Arts Festival.

In this final episode of Season 1, we explore a lesser known chapter in the tumultuous history of housing in Belfast. Marianne Elliott, a retired professor of history, walks us through the place she grew up.

The estate in North Belfast where Marianne’s family lived was built as part of a radical experiment in social housing. Its successes and its failures hold important lessons for a city still struggling with how to build a shared future.
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In this episode, we meet the conservation architect Andrew McClelland. He tells us about the hidden history of Castlecourt - one of the biggest city centre developments of the twentieth century in Belfast.
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How does a big development like this happen in the city? And what else - demolished or unbuilt - might have stood in its place?

For this special episode, Conor sat down with our PLACE colleague Jane Morrow to talk about an exciting upcoming project, the Urban Design Academy.

In 2015, Gallaudet University in Washington DC set about finding an architect to design a new part of its 150 year old campus. Fifty-one architecture firms from across the world threw their hat in the ring, but it was Hall McKnight, a small practice based in a humble brick building on an East Belfast industrial estate that clinched the prestigious project.

In this episode, architect Richard Dougherty, an associate at Hall McKnight who has been deaf from birth, talks about bringing his personal experiences into the design of "Deaf Space" for the Gallaudet project.

See the full transcript for this episode below.

We're back with Episode 4 on Thursday 14th June. In the meantime, Conor and Rebekah have some recommendations for good 'city listens'. See you next week!
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In this episode, Mark, who is partially sighted, leads us on a route from his house in North Belfast into the city centre. On the way, he shows us some of the challenges he faces and the skills he's learned to lead his life. We consider the impact of design - good and bad - on people who have a disability.
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This is the first of two episodes of The Infinite City where we meet people whose experience, and consideration, of space is influenced by disability, and consider what truly inclusive urban design might be like.

The Infinite City is produced by Rebekah McCabe and Conor McCafferty for PLACE, with assistance from Maria Postanogova and Stuart Gray. It is supported by Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios and Arts and Business Northern Ireland. Special thanks to the RNIB for their assistance with this episode.

​See the full transcript for this episode below.

​In this episode we follow designer Kate Catterall on a route around Belfast, following the traces of something that no longer exists - at least not physically...

​​The Infinite City is produced by Rebekah McCabe and Conor McCafferty for PLACE, with assistance from Maria Postanogova and Stuart Gray. Music for this episode was composed by Conor McCafferty. The podcast is supported by Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios and Arts and Business Northern Ireland.

See more episode notes and an episode transcription below.

In our first episode, artist and writer Daniel Jewesbury takes us on a walk through Belfast - past and present. Along the way, we revisit three moments in Belfast’s history that give us particular insight into enduring questions about art and the city.

​The Infinite City is produced by Rebekah McCabe and Conor McCafferty for PLACE, with assistance from Maria Postanogova and Stuart Gray. Music for this episode was composed by Conor McCafferty. The podcast is supported by Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios and Arts and Business Northern Ireland.

See episode notes and an episode transcript below.

Welcome to this new podcast from PLACE. It’s a podcast about cities: how they work, how they’re constantly changing, the forces that drive those changes and what it’s like to live in them. In our first season, we’ll have six stories from the city of Belfast...
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