Guests and mentors

The people whose work anchors the CCAE modules: guest speakers, external examiners of ideas, and the researchers whose frameworks the studios read from. Each profile was built for the session that invited them.

These pages used to sit inside whichever module folder first needed them, which made them hard to find and easy to duplicate. They were gathered here on 20 August 2026, and the old addresses still work.

Critical Zone and cartography

The territory the studios map, and the instruments for mapping it.

Alexandra Arènes

Architect, cartographer and researcher. Co-founder of SOC.

Co-author of Terra Forma, the manual of speculative maps that gives the Critical Zone a drawing practice. Her instruments run through the geogame work and the AIARG 2026 studio.

AIARG 2026Critical Zone

Prof. Kiel Moe

Gerald Sheff Chair in Architecture, McGill University. FAIA, FAAR.

Reads a building as a thermodynamic process tracked in energy, matter and time. The EMERGY strand and the Lagrangian reading in the studios come from his work.

Building ChangeEMERGY

Regenerative built environment and the New European Bauhaus

Material ethics, forest cycles and the alliance the work sits inside.

Prof. Dr. Andreja Kutnar

Director, InnoRenew CoE. Full Professor of wood science, University of Primorska.

Coordinator of the New European Bauhaus Academy Alliance, chair of COST Action FP1407, and president of SWST in 2020 to 2021. Guest speaker on AT6012.

AT6012NEB Academy

Orla Murphy MRIAI

Assistant Professor, UCD School of Architecture. Co-Director, UCD Centre for Irish Towns.

Community-centred regenerative design, and co-leader of Building Change. New European Bauhaus Prize 2023 and a UCD Teaching Excellence Award in 2022.

AT6012Building Change

Alijana Batič

Professional Associate for Administrative Project Management.

Runs sustainable infrastructure projects through EU funding instruments, which is the machinery that turns a New European Bauhaus proposal into a delivered thing.

Building ChangeEU funding

Energy, retrofit and building performance

What the standards ask for, what the physics allows, and the gap between them.

Dr Pádraig Lyons

Head of Group, International Energy Research Centre, Tyndall National Institute, UCC. Chartered Engineer.

Energy systems research on the grid side of the building envelope, feeding the retrofit and energy-standards work.

Building ChangeEnergy

Dr Jim Harrison and Dr Kevin Busby

Universal design in adaptive reuse.

Reviving Buildings: Why Part M Alone Won't Do. The argument that accessibility compliance and universal design are different targets, delivered into AT6031.

AT6031Universal Design

Health, policy and the public good

How evidence reaches a decision, and what stops it.

Dr Monica O'Mullane

Senior Research Fellow and Principal Investigator, HIA-IM Project. School of Public Health, University College Cork.

Health Impact Assessment and policy development, on how HIA gets embedded in policy-making to reach structural health inequalities across the island of Ireland.

Micro-credentialsHIA

Computing, intelligence and social theory

The disciplines the architecture studio has to argue with.

Professor Dirk Pesch

Head of School of Computer Science and IT, UCC. Director, ADVANCE Centre for Research Training.

Internet of Things and smart systems, on what a sensed building actually knows about itself.

AT6012IoT

Professor Joseph Feller

Bank of Ireland Professor of Business Information Systems, UCC.

Open innovation and AI fluency, and the question of what a person keeps hold of when the machine does part of the thinking.

AT6012AI fluency

Professor Adrian Favell FBA

Founding Director, Radical Humanities Laboratory, University College Cork.

Migration, mobilities and global inequality, read through social and political theory and contemporary art. The reason the studio cannot treat a city as a purely technical object.

AT6012Migration

Eleven people, gathered from six module folders on 20 August 2026. Every previous address redirects here, so old links and old slide decks keep working.

The wider mentor pool for community-engaged research sits on the ENGAGE platform at engage.curricula.dev/Mentors. Cork Centre for Architectural Education, University College Cork.