Heritage Council podcast
Episode 2: Tara Buckley
In episode two, Alison Harvey, from the Heritage Council, speaks with Tara Buckley, Director General of RGDATA the Retail Grocer's Trade Association.
Episode 1: Dr Philip Crowe
In episode one, Alison Harvey, from the Heritage Council, speaks with Dr Philip Crowe, Assistant Professor at UCD’s School of Architecture and Centre for Irish Towns (CfIT).
Reports Relating to Episode One
Dr Philip Crowe is an Assistant Professor in Climate Responsive Design at the UCD School of Architecture, Planning and Environmental Policy, and the UCD School of Civil Engineering. Through his research, Philip seeks to better understand how designed environments can better respond to crises such as climate change, biodiversity loss and resource depletion. Philip has 20+ years’ experience in practice and academia in architecture, urban planning and sustainable design, that includes award-winning innovative building and urban design projects; participation in EU FP7, H2020 and INTERREG projects; and direct research commissions from national and local government and state agencies. Philip is Co-Chair of Innovation and Social Enterprise at the UCD Earth Institute, and a Co-Founder of the nascent UCD Centre for Irish Towns, a trans-disciplinary centre for research and collaboration focused on the towns on the island of Ireland.
Philip is also Co-Founder of Space Engagers, a social enterprise that uses research, citizen engagement and co-design processes to make our towns and cities more resilient and sustainable. This has included a research report for the Heritage Council’s CTCHC Programme in 2019 on incentives for reusing vacant buildings in town centres in Scotland, Denmark and France. Space Engagers emerged from the EU TURAS project in UCD and has been funded by awards from Social Innovation Fund Ireland and EU Climate KIC.
Philip holds a MSc in Applied Carbon Management and a PhD from the UCD School of Landscape Architecture that explored what urban resilience might mean in practice by revisiting the work of the Scottish polymath and early town planner Patrick Geddes as an historical precedent. Philip was Director of Sustainable Design at M.CO (Dublin) from 2003 to 2012.
