As Ireland's future lies within a global economy, trading on ideas (which we haven't managed to date), can we invent a 'learning landscape' - something as powerful as Singapore but where, instead of living in skyscrapers, people can continue to live on the land while contributing to the global knowledge economy?

Land parcels, currently in declining agricultural use, are intensified for collective/educational purposes, creating new places-new foci for community life, between the polarities of urban and rural... Old school-houses are retained in civic usage to act as catalysts for other collective uses, offering society an opportunity to reconnect and re-engage with the land as a rich learning tool… Landscape becomes a positive structuring and generative tool supporting this new condition, retaining the existing field boundaries as pathways-a new, slower means of traversing the land, rendering the previously inaccessible accessible.

Bucholz | McEvoy Architects
Irish Architecture Foundation