Open House Dublin is a free festival of architecture with 200+ events taking place each October and the flagship architecture festival of the Irish Architecture Foundation. Established in 2005, the Irish Architecture Foundation (IAF) is Ireland’s independent organisation for the advancement of culture and communication of architecture to audiences. In 2025 the Open House Dublin festival will take place in Dublin city and county over 9 days, starting with an Open House Junior weekend with workshops, tours and activities dedicated to young people and families. Our programme for this year wi

For too long, DEI has been edited down into corporate jargon and tick-box exercises. The GORM Gathering 2025 is the director’s cut, raw, unfiltered, and led by community. This isn’t performative. This is protest and joy in motion. A short film premiere that exposes what corporate DEI won’t. Panels that reclaim authorship and centre voices from the margins. Performances that carry resistance in their rhythm. A co-creation session where the community sets the agenda — and the industry finally listens. Because when the system won’t hand us the mic — we bring our own. ABO

The Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (DIAS) is once again conjuring up the spooky side of science and history with the return of its much-loved festival, Samhain agus Science. Come along to the free events and explore medieval murder mysteries, the history of demons in physics, the cosmic hauntings of the Big Bang, the solar flares erupting from our Sun, the role of the Dead Zoo in deepening our understanding of nature, and the dynamic forces beneath the Earth’s surface Beginning Wednesday 22 October, Samhain agus Science will run until Wednesday 4 November and the events will tak