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"PUSH" - After Film Discussion on Housing Issues

38m · Docs Ireland Podcast · 02 Jul 12:59

A very thought provoking and illuminating chat around the issues of Housing Rights, over all of Ireland, after the Docs Ireland screening of PUSH (dir. Fredrik Gertten), in the Mac, Belfast. The panel was chaired by Dr. Agustina Martire (Lecturer in Architecture, School of Natural and Built Environment at Queens University Belfast and vice chair of the SaveCQ campaign), with Elfie Seymore and Jenna (Participation and the Practice of Rights), Dublin TD Eoin Ó Broin, author of HOME: why public housing is the answer (Merrion Press 2019) and Ciaran Mackel, Associate Senior Lecturer in Architecture at the Ulster University and the founder of ARdMackel Architects.

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