History Ireland Hedge School: ‘Housing in Ireland - A history of Dysfunction?’ with expert historians Tommy Graham (Hedge School Master/Chair), Ellen Rowley, Conor McCabe, and housing activist Aisling Hedderman.

From the tenement collapses of the early twentieth century to the spiralling house prices of the early twenty-first, it seems that housing in Ireland has always been in a state of crisis. What were the intended and unintended consequences of twentieth-century housing policy and how has this led to our current housing crisis? To address these and related questions, join History Ireland editor, Tommy Graham, in discussion with housing activist, Aisling Hedderman, architectural historian, Ellen Rowley, and economic historian, Conor McCabe.

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This round table discussion will take place as part of a durational installation/performance piece, '1. Leave after finding nothing in a big, rambling empty space' by Nina Fitzgerald Graham in the NCAD Sculpture Department. This work explores the young-adult experience in Dublin and reckons with expectations of adulthood and imaginaries of the future. Drawing from her lived experience, this work speaks to a generation infantilised by economic forces - hibernating - suspended in their childhood worlds.

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The installation conjures an elusive domicile, interrupted and altered day after day by a series of transient inhabitants - their lives intersecting and layering, permeating this imagined world.