Exploring the history and future of a semi-derelict wing of the Callan Workhouse.

Luke Brabazon is a Leaving Cert student from Callan. He is currently developing his skills and interests in photography and film.
Sinead Burke received her MA in Geography from NUI Galway in 2011. She focuses on research in the field and on human geography.
Edward Byrne is from Tullow in Co. Carlow. He has run his own lime render business for the past twenty-seven years.
Shane Byrne is from Carlow and is part of the Camphill Community in Callan. He has previously worked with lime render.
Peter Cosgrave graduated from UCD School of Architecture in 2011. He is interested in responses to both site and social context.
Alan Counihan is a visual artist and writer whose work is based on the exploration of place. He lives in Kilkenny.
Brian Cregan’s exhibition The Glass Garden was recently shown at the Riverbank Theatre in Kildare. He has a BA in photography from DIT.
Gary Dalton lives in Waterford and trained as a geologist. He works in shelter and housing, and trains people in sustainable development.
Nicola Finlay is an architecture graduate from Queens University. She is focused on the development of space in local communities.
Padraig Flynn is interested in the relationship between architecture and community. He is a graduate of UCD School of Architecture.
Fiona Gannon has a BA in Fine Art from IADT. She is interested in site-specific work and the discourse between space and place.
Senan Gardiner has a Masters in Ecology and wrote his thesis on education in sustainable development.
Dee Harte is a textile artist who is based in Dublin. She works in socially engaged art projects and with textile waste streams.
Etaoin Holahan is the curator of Fennelly’s in Callan. She has been involved in developing Endangered Studios at the Workhouse.
James Irvine is a student of architecture at Lincoln. He is interested in traditional building and community development.
Hollie Kearns is a curator with Commonage. She has a studio in the Workhouse, and lives across the road from it.
Gareth Kennedy is an artist from Galway, he works with material-based processes that are context and location-specific.
Alice Lee is a graduate of Literature from the University of Manchester. She recently made an ethnographic film in Papua New Guinea.
Patrick Lydon is a long-term Camphill co-worker and is committed to finding architectural opportunities for the Workhouse.
>Rosie Lynch is a curator with Commonage, she lives and works in Callan and grew up in Camphill Community Ballytobin.
Deirdre McMenamin is a co-founder of LiD Architecture. She is interested in landscape strategies and participatory design methods.
Clémentine Mechri works in Callan as part of the European Voluntary Service. She has a BA in Product Design from ENSAAMA, Paris.
Sean Moore lives in Drangan, Co. Tipperary. He is interested in history and has a background in building and electrical work.
Henna Mosse studies Fashion Design at the University of Central Lancashire. She is interested in textiles and embellishments.
Sveta Naumova is a student at Moscow Architectural Institute. She is interested in renovation, restoration and green architecture.
Yuliya Nemova is interested in sustainable living and Irish culture. She is a student at Moscow Architectural Institute.
Eoghan O’Brien is from New Ross, Wexford, and has been part of the Camphill Community in Callan for the past ten years.
Eimear O’Connell is a heritage consultant from Westmeath. She is interested in making things, and in the links between stories and sites.
Bridget O’Gorman is a visual artist based in Cork. She had a studio in the Workhouse between 2009–10, and made a work in response to it.
Seán O’Sullivan is a writer and curator whose research focuses on the politics and the preservation of localities. He lives in Dublin.
Sinead Phelan is currently studying English at Trinity College Dublin. She grew up in Kingsriver Community, Stonyford.
Shane Reid is an architecture student at DIT. He is interested in the tectonics of architecture and the poetics of construction.
Geraldine Rowantree is from Arklow and lives in Callan. She is a part-time teacher, and is interested in Irish culture and sewing.
Dougal Sheridan is a co-founder of LiD Architecture and a lecturer in architecture at the University of Ulster.
Marcin Woszczyna lives in Callan and has been a technician for Commonage and the Abhainn Rí Festival for the last three years.
Camphill Community Callan operate a house community in a wing of the Workhouse, and tend to a large biodynamic garden.