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Killian O’Dochartaigh / Architectural Field Office @architecturefo.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

📢 Reminder that the final dialogue in the Colonial Debris, Decolonial Horizons series, “After Colonial Debris,” is on tonight 6pm inAdam House Basement Theatre, 3 Chambers Street, Edinburgh.This is an online and in person event. Evenbrite link here. 👇 Details below. tinyurl.com/mvnm8ufw

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Colonial Debris, Decolonial Horizons – After Colonial Debris

Presentation by Architects for Gaza (AFG), followed by talk by Dr Samer Abdelnour

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Killian O’Dochartaigh / Architectural Field Office @architecturefo.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

How should architects & urbanists respond to war’s aftermath? Join After Colonial Debris, final dialogue in the Colonial Debris, Decolonial Horizons series w/ Architects for Gaza & Dr Samer Abdelnour. Wed 18 Mar, 6pm, Edinburgh + online.

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Over 400 @unitetheunion.bsky.social members at the University of Strathclyde (including cleaners and security guards) are starting 7 days of strike action today over job cuts. The university says it has to save money. Last year the boss of the university was paid £428,000

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Killian O’Dochartaigh / Architectural Field Office @architecturefo.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

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Killian O’Dochartaigh / Architectural Field Office @architecturefo.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Our film Hill Station will premiere at Open City Docs alongside Miranda Pennell’s new film.This standalone version includes additional footage from the model production/ installation for the RIBA–Tate exhibition. I’ll be in Japan, but if you’re in London please go. opencitylondon.com/events/hill-...

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Hill Station + A Person of the Forest - Open City Documentary Festival

Hill Station Edward Lawrenson | 2025 | UK | 29’ | digital | English spoken Hill Station takes as its point of departure an 1899 expedition by the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine to research mal...

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Killian O’Dochartaigh / Architectural Field Office @architecturefo.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Reminder: Salone Drift screens Wed 11 March, 6pm at Adam House Basement Theatre, Edinburgh (Colonial Debris, Decolonial Horizons series). The film explores colonial health segregation in Freetown and the rise of tropical medicine. Discussion with Prof. Nacim Pak-Shiraz. In person only.

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Killian O’Dochartaigh / Architectural Field Office @architecturefo.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

📽️ Screening: Salone Drift Wed 11th March, 6pm @edincollegeofart.bsky.social Tracing Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine expedition and "elevated enclaves" of malaria control. Interest to: Architecture, Film Studies, Archivists, Medical Anthro. Register here: tinyurl.com/ym2t6b4c In-person only

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Killian O’Dochartaigh / Architectural Field Office @architecturefo.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Final reminder: Imagined Futures, Colonial Reckonings Colonial Debris, Decolonial Horizons #4 Wed 25 Feb, 6pm Adam House Theatre, Edinburgh Details + tickets via Eventbrite. Please share. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/colonial-d...

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Killian O’Dochartaigh / Architectural Field Office @architecturefo.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Colonial Debris #4/ 25 Feb, 6pm. Lilet Breddels — Gaza Travel Agency and Saleh — Balfour Reparations. Speculative design & performance confronting Britain’s colonial legacy in Palestine. Eventbrite soon. Please come, Share. Will be 🔥

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Killian O’Dochartaigh / Architectural Field Office @architecturefo.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Know Iran. See it. Iranians are the best people (next to the Irish). I have so much love for the people and place. I stand against tyranny

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Killian O’Dochartaigh / Architectural Field Office @architecturefo.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Great conversations tonight At colonial debris w/ victoria Okoye and email respecting ‘Black Geographies’ Critical. Warm. reflective. generous. Open (non-binary)

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Killian O’Dochartaigh / Architectural Field Office @architecturefo.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

💥 Tonight, 6pm — ECA / Black Geographic Interventions Against Empire 💥 Dr Victoria Okoye, Emily Burgess & Hugo Edgoose Third dialogue in Colonial Debris, Decolonial Horizons. 📍 Room E22, ECA Main Campus Further details in poster and link lnkd.in/ebVrVUwK

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Killian O’Dochartaigh / Architectural Field Office @architecturefo.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Third dialogue in the Colonial Debris, Decolonial Horizons series: Black Geographic Interventions Against Empire Wed 4 Feb, 6pm | Room E22, ECA Main Campus. Details in flyer + Eventbrite link below. Please share. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/colonial-d...

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Killian O’Dochartaigh / Architectural Field Office @architecturefo.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Semester 2 ESALA’s Semester 2 **Colonial Debris / Decolonial Horizons** continues.  * Black Geographic Interventions Against Empire (4 Feb) * Imagined Futures, Colonial Reckonings (25 Feb) * Hill Station film + Q&A (11 Mar) * After Colonial Debris (18 Mar)/// Join us! Event links coming soon.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Nobody works this hard for this long to cover up something this bad unless they are guilty.

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Killian O’Dochartaigh / Architectural Field Office @architecturefo.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Final post of the year, with a few images from Semester 1 of the MArch Shared Island unit Edinburgh College of Art Immensely proud of my students for taking on—and thoughtfully engaging with—the complex landscapes of Derry’s urban extensions. Looking forward to Semester 2.

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Killian O’Dochartaigh / Architectural Field Office @architecturefo.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

First live show @ehfm radio today! 🔊Tune in and listen from 3pm at www.ehfm.live will be mostly 90’s techno and electronic. All in the spirit of peace ✌️ photo by Giles Caron, Derry 1969

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Killian O’Dochartaigh / Architectural Field Office @architecturefo.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Today at TU Delft I’m giving a lecture: “From Extraction to Translation: The Afterlife of a West African Utopia.” A trilogy of work on Yekepa, N. Liberia, tracing Mano knowledge, mining and post-mining futures. Thanks to the Theories of Architecture Fellowship. Image archive: Svenska Filminstitutet

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Killian O’Dochartaigh / Architectural Field Office @architecturefo.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Delighted to join @tudelft as a Theories of Architecture Fellow and to take part in the PhD seminar series. Will share work from Geography Lessons, Uppland, and Translating Yekepa on extraction, landscape, and post-conflict architectures. #Architecture #PostConflict #ExtractiveUrbanism #TUDelft

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Killian O’Dochartaigh / Architectural Field Office @architecturefo.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Presented Salone Drift today — a story of Freetown growing along the coast while slowly eating its own shoreline. At John Obey, sand is livelihood and loss, memory and future. A city remaking itself, grain by grain. #salonedrift image of 1899 Ross malaria map transposed onto John obey beach

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Killian O’Dochartaigh / Architectural Field Office @architecturefo.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Next week at ESALA Colonial Debris Dialogue 2 → Ilze Wolff on “Bessie Head’s Rainclouds as an Architecture of Liberation.” 📅 Wed 19 Nov, 6pm | 📍 West Court, ECA Acts of cultivation as architectures of resistance. Register ↓ tinyurl.com/ilzewolff

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Killian O’Dochartaigh / Architectural Field Office @architecturefo.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

2nd Colonial Debris, Decolonial Horizons dialogue: Ilze Wolff on “Bessie Head’s Rainclouds as an Architecture of Liberation.” Wed 19 Nov, 6 PM | West Court, ECA. Exploring Rainclouds & Boiteko Garden as acts of writing, community & resistance. tinyurl.com/2s3uyp96 #DecolonialHorizons #ColonialDebris

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Killian O’Dochartaigh / Architectural Field Office @architecturefo.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Over the past days, students and I made a collective drawing of the old college for Grounds of Protest in Colonial Debris.108 years ago, Balfour signed his declaration — perhaps in an office not far from mine. These histories still shape what silence and resistance mean today. #Palestine

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Killian O’Dochartaigh / Architectural Field Office @architecturefo.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Ill be giving a talk tonight on Rwanda's Forests and virtue signalling of architecture-ecology-in person + online - details in image @edincollegeofart.bsky.social Image: Karisoke Cabin on a Foggy Day, Rwanda 1969. Photograph by Bob Campbell, Courtesy of University of Florida Special Collections

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Killian O’Dochartaigh / Architectural Field Office @architecturefo.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

* First event *Colonial Debris,Decolonial Horizons Wed 29 Oct, 6pm. Adam House, 3 Chambers St.A public dialogue on University of Edinburgh’s Race Review and its architectural implications with Nicki Frith, Nicola Perugini, Shaira Vadasaria, Samantha Likonde & Claire Walsh 🔗 tinyurl.com/4vfmjtyp

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Killian O’Dochartaigh / Architectural Field Office @architecturefo.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Year-long series @ESALA: **Colonial Debris / Decolonial Horizons**— dialogues + actions responding to University of Edinburgh’s Race Review. Unearthing built legacies of colonialism through lectures, workshops & collective actions. 🗓️ Semester 1 kicks off 29 Oct 🔗 More soon. Come through & share.

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Killian O’Dochartaigh / Architectural Field Office @architecturefo.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

**Join us next Thurs 23 Oct, 6:30PM at Adam House LT for *Houses of Flood, Silt and Shadow* — a lecture by architect & writer Matthew Butcher on speculative, environmental design. Details & work: [matthewbutcher.org](matthewbutcher.org) #ESALA #Architecture

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Killian O’Dochartaigh / Architectural Field Office @architecturefo.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

The Shared island unit- Masters of Architecture fieldtrip @esala roaming the watersheds of Lough Foyle. We kayaked its edges , held its inhabitants, probed its controversies - continually questioning the 1910 border. Images - Lough Foyle agency; ‘far and wild’; fish lists; oysters and mobouy dump.

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Dónal Hassett @donalh.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Now that the UN Commission, chaired by a judge who headed the tribunal in Rwanda, has affirmed that Israel is perpetrating genocide on 4 different grounds, will we hear from those who dismissed, and in some cases denigrated, colleagues for raising the alarm? www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

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‘Direct evidence of genocidal intent’: the UN commission of inquiry’s report on Israel’s actions in Gaza

Legal analysis has accused Israel of committing genocide in four out of five categories as defined by 1948 convention

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Killian O’Dochartaigh / Architectural Field Office @architecturefo.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

‘Shared island March unit’ is underway at Esala. Image- map of sites sounds Lough Foyle. Shroove beach, inishowen

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Killian O’Dochartaigh / Architectural Field Office @architecturefo.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

Some 'professional' images of our 'Hill Station' exhibition on at RIBA North West Tate Liverpool until 16th November taken by Peter. Images © The Royal Institute of British Architects/Pete Carr hashtag#Sierraleone

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Killian O’Dochartaigh / Architectural Field Office @architecturefo.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Future of learning? Office Pods @eca school of architecture. What sort of message are we sending our students?? What would Jacques Tati say?

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Karen Gregory @karengregory.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

If I were in Liverpool, I would go see this: www.tate.org.uk/visit/tate-l... via @architecturefo.bsky.social

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Hill Station – Display at Tate Liverpool + RIBA North | Tate

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Killian O’Dochartaigh / Architectural Field Office @architecturefo.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Here is my paper that engages with the racial-spatial politics of conservation and colonial legacies of architectural discourse. I examine how architecture - past and present - is used by certain actors to commodify, exoticize and capture Rwanda’s landscapes. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Killian O’Dochartaigh / Architectural Field Office @architecturefo.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Passing through highlands of Albania and stopped in small town called Korçe. Struck by number of really handsome generous civic spaces that are result of Bolles + Wilson 2007 masterplan.City library City hall, Red bar, Teatri Andon z theatre more here drawingmatter.org/bolleswilson...

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Killian O’Dochartaigh / Architectural Field Office @architecturefo.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

Been working night and day on exhibit. Wearing Dust, splinters, shards and fragments. Come see at RIBA and Tate Liverpool 4th sept to 16th November

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Killian O’Dochartaigh / Architectural Field Office @architecturefo.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Tune into @EHFM today at 3pm to hear Najmeh's (my wifes) special show on Iran www.ehfm.live/residents/be...

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Killian O’Dochartaigh / Architectural Field Office @architecturefo.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Finally got hold of Cities Under Siege (Documenta11, 2002). Our exhibit echoes Ibrahim Abdullah’s essay on Freetown’s segregated settlement patterns and the colonial logic behind Hill Station’s ‘climatic estate.’

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Killian O’Dochartaigh / Architectural Field Office @architecturefo.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Project with @RIBA overlaps with Liverpool Biennial @Tate, theme of 'Bedrock'. The colonial housing project at Hill Station resonate with this theme through its geological impulse—specifically rejecting the local terrain, deemed a breeding ground for malaria. www.tate.org.uk/visit/tate-l...

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Hill Station – Display at Tate Liverpool + RIBA North | Tate

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Killian O’Dochartaigh / Architectural Field Office @architecturefo.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Pleased to announce 'Hill Station: Architecture and the Altitudes of Empire' with Edward Lawrenson, opens @RIBA Liverpool September 3rd. Funded by Arts council Ireland @edincollegeofart.bsky.social and Graham foundation. Special thks to Richard Collins. Press release here 👉🏽 lnkd.in/eEFmirZR

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Killian O’Dochartaigh / Architectural Field Office @architecturefo.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Know Iran. See it. Iranians are the best people (next to the Irish). I have so much love for the people and place. I stand against tyranny

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Killian O’Dochartaigh / Architectural Field Office @architecturefo.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Days like today that make academia worth it. Preview of fragments of our (with Ed) exhibition @RIBA with Lioba hirsch (CAS_UoE) Lisa moffit & Piper Bernbaum @carleton.ca @JamesClegg from Talbot Rice, Richard Collins @edincollegeofart.bsky.social , Najmeh Modarres, and Nilufar Movahedi

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Killian O’Dochartaigh / Architectural Field Office @architecturefo.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

I have been quiet for a number of reasons, not just work. One is the side-project iniatied by my wife over at EHFM Radio. Today our second show airs at 3pm today and is dedicated to all the countries banned by T***P as well as to my friends and family in Iran. www.ehfm.live/residents/be...

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EHFM is an Edinburgh-based online radio station, providing a platform for the capital's local artists and broadcasting 24 hours a day.

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Killian O’Dochartaigh / Architectural Field Office @architecturefo.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

ICE's tactic of capturing during annual 'check in' is long established. Have friend checked in with ICE in Portland in 2018 to be detained, spend a month in jail, in solitary confinement to be deported from JFK to Sierra Leone. He is citizenless and separated from his wife and daughter since.

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Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign @ipsc.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Our Chairperson Zoë Lawlor on Irish solidarity with Palestine and how our government must sanction apartheid Israel for its genocidal crimes. #FreePalestine #SolidarityIsAVerb 🇵🇸 Irish pro-Palestine activists embrace ‘Paddystinian’ term as badge of honour www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

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Irish pro-Palestine activists embrace ‘Paddystinian’ term as badge of honour

Believed to have originated as an insult by Israel supporters, neologism is now used to campaign against war in Gaza

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