Unfolding the City: Architecture, Photography and Collage at Photo Museum Ireland

Open House Junior at Photo Museum Ireland

Unfolding the City: Architecture, Photography and Collage

The session will begin with a guided exploration of Photo Museum Ireland’s distinctive building in Meeting House Square. Designed by award-winning Irish architects Sheila O’Donnell and John Tuomey of O’Donnell + Tuomey, the building was inspired by the shape and design of a Box Brownie camera.

Looking at the museum from different angles and viewpoints, children and their accompanying adults will explore its shape, materials and architectural details, and consider how the building connects with the surrounding streetscape.

The group will then move indoors for a hands-on collage workshop. Using pre-printed photographs of the museum, Meeting House Square and nearby architectural details, participants will cut, layer and rearrange the images to create their own imagined cityscapes.

Each collage will be developed into a concertina zine that unfolds like a deconstructed street or skyline. The workshop will encourage children to look closely at architecture, experiment with scale and perspective, and creatively reimagine familiar buildings and public spaces.