Venice Architecture Biennale Irish Pavilion 2018, Exhibition, Image, Ireland Design Show
Venice Biennale Irish Pavilion 2018
Ireland Architecture Exhibition in Italy – ?Free Market?
7 Apr 2018
Venice Biennale Irish Pavilion 2018
Venice Biennale Irish Pavilion 2018
The Irish Pavilion?s Free Market explores the importance of the rural market place at the 16th International Architecture Exhibition ? La Biennale di Venezia
Curated by a team of six young Irish architects and designers, Free Market aims to reassert the declining rural market square as a public place of social, political and cultural exchange, central to community cohesion. In doing so, it will highlight the generosity, humanity and possibilities that are embodied in the market place. One in three Irish people live in a town, and this exhibition focusses on small towns of less than 5000 people. Once the economic and social hubs of rural Ireland, many market squares in these towns have seen their function as a place for exchange and congregation diminished. Many others have surrendered their role as markets and are now used only for car parking.
Free Market aims to explore the unique identity of these market towns while reflecting regional variation and historic development.

Illustration by Mark Wickham
In response to the Freespace theme chosen by the curators of the Biennale Architettura 2018, Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara, Free Market will act as a real market square, offering an engaging place to ...