Accelerating Change Together

10/02/2026

Minister Alan Dillon TD has announced the Circular Economy Innovation Grant Scheme recipients.
€650,000 has been awarded to 14 projects nationwide under the Circular Economy Innovation Grant Scheme ♻️

The funding supports innovative, community-led solutions to reduce waste, reuse resources and strengthen local economies as Ireland transitions to a circular economy.

👉 See the full list of projects: https://bit.ly/4qw1fWN

25/12/2025

06/06/2024

An Ecosystem for Bio-economy Innovation

Cill Ulta project aims to be a living lab for industry and academia, creating local jobs, preserving the Irish language, showcasing regenerative practices, and serving as a community and educational hub.

Check it out on our website!

04/06/2024

Reimagining Sustainable Town Centre Living

Scotch House aims to challenge the concept that Irish people don’t want to live in our rural town centres by bringing best of suburban living to urban environment.

Check out more on our website!

29/05/2024

We were very happy to join with Rethink Ireland, in Leinster House earlier this month. We've grown in our capacity to deliver positive impact over the last years and are thankful of for their support in achieving this.

21/05/2024

Greetings! 🎉

To celebrate ACT turning 3 years old 🎂 this week, we are thrilled to unveil our brand-new website showcasing our extensive portfolio of projects across our four disciplines of Architecture, Urbanism, Visions & Strategies and Impact at Scale.

www.act-studio.com

We invite you to explore our new website and discover the diverse range of work that reflects our commitment to accelerating the Green Transition.

A big thank you to all our staff, collaborators and supporters for helping us on our journey so far. We are excited to see what the future will hold.

If are interesting in working or collaborating with ACT please get in contact.

09/01/2024

09/01/2024

09/01/2024

09/01/2024

In this week's instalment of , take inspiration from the Hometown Architect project in Lisdoonvarna. The HTA project team recently launched 'Tapping the Well', a vision for Lisdoonvarna that expresses the community's nine shared ambitions to guide the town to a thriving, sustainable and inclusive future.

You can watch the Reimagine Lisdoonvarna project team, presenting their project during a recent Reimagine Café here: https://zurl.co/myYD

Lisdoonvarna was one of the five towns selected for the first round of taking place in 2023.
If you are a member of an active community group, or an architect with a local connection, why not submit an application for Hometown Architect 2024?

Hometown Architect invites joint applications from community stakeholders and local architects with proposals for town centre regeneration in line with the Government of Ireland’s Town Centre First Policy. You can learn more about the application process and ask questions at the second Info Session which will be held on Wednesday 13th December. Apply for Hometown Architect 2024 or register for the Info Session here: https://zurl.co/gh6L

Deadline 19 January. 3 projects will be selected for a grant of €10,000 plus practical support from IAF's dedicated placemaking team.

Hometown Architect is funded by The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon and the Department of Rural and Community Development with additional support to the Irish Architecture Foundation from the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage



Common Knowledge Grafton Architects Accelerating Change Together Lisdoonvarna Fáilte CLG - North Clare Sports & Amenity Park

09/01/2024

Trading Spaces – an update on a cultural exchange between Ireland and Sweden

Last autumn, eight early career based in Sweden and Ireland came together in Dublin and Stockholm to pool their knowledge about practices as part of the Trading Spaces: Resources and Dwelling co-organised by the Irish Architecture Foundation, Dublin and Färgfabriken, Stockholm.

In the design of housing, innovative ideas and solutions are needed that enable society to dwell lightly, sustainably and securely on the earth. Trading Spaces was set up to support early career architects and practitioners in Ireland and Sweden to exchange knowledge and experience, discussing and confronting questions they face in their work and practices, and to explore potential future collaborations.

The participants - selected through an open call process - were Noreile Breen (Noreile Breen Architecture), Tom Lindsay and James McConville (Accelerating Change Together), Ciarán Molumby and Laura Carroll (Islander Architects), Jennita Schaaphok, Annika Olausson (Cedervall arkitekter), and Daniel Johansson (BYGGFENOMEN).

During the exchanges – which took place in September in Dublin and November in Stockholm – the participants visited each other’s studios, gave presentations, attended exhibitions and led tours around ‘typical’, atypical and other illustrative housing developments in their respective countries. In doing so, the participants shared the challenges and opportunities faced in both contexts, and questioned the role of the architect in addressing the issues of resource scarcity and sustainable building practices.

Trading Spaces was supported by the Embassy of Ireland Stockholm.

Read the full story: https://architecturefoundation.ie/news/trading-spaces/