Roundtable Event for Architects - 25 January

This is a networking opportunity to meet other architect businesses, the guest speaker is the inspirational George Boyle, founder of Fumbally Exchange.

Date:                    Wednesday 25th January 2012
Time:                    9.30-11.30am
Venue:                 Dublin City Enterprise Board, 5th Floor O' Connell Bridge House, D'Olier St., Dublin 2
 
The objective of the information session is a networking opportunity to meet other architect businesses (trading for at least 1 year in business) to meet and share information, experiences and solutions with your peers. We like to encourage networking and lots of interaction, Q&A.  The guest speaker is the inspirational George Boyle, founder of Fumbally Exchange.

The format is mostly discussion, questions & answers.

How do you increase sales in these uncertain economic times?
How do you keep your marketing costs down?
Selling; what works and doesn't work?
Finding strategic partners to help increase your sales
Financing your business and trying to keep on top of cash flow

Guest speaker: George Boyle

Founder of the Fumbally Exchange:
Innovation Hub at the Heart of the Liberties
Architectural and Strategic Planning Practice
Founder of the Heart of the Liberties Project    

George is a quixotic, determined, liberal architect and earth mother in a hat. Born in Dublin in 1970, she graduated in architecture with honours in 1992 from University College Dublin. In 1997 she became a member of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland and the Royal Institute of British Architects, and after working in various practices during the early 1990s, was with international practice Murray Ó'Laoire Architects from 1995 - 2010, where she was an (outspoken) associate director
George established her own practice in 2010 and determined to confront the impacts of recession in architecture and related sectors head-on.  In pursuit of reform and innovation she established Fumbally Exchange in July 2010, a hub for entrepreneurs and creative professionals collaborating for change - Making Work. Together - in the heart of the Liberties in Dublin 8.  Within a year participant business numbers in Fumbally Exchange swelled to 60 and the organisation is expanding to other locations nationwide in 2012.  George was a winner of the Arthur Guinness Fund Social Entrepreneurship award in 2011 for her work with Fumbally Exchange.

George studied violin, cello, piano and Irish and pedal harp and is an associate of the Royal Irish Academy of Music (teaching and performance). She taught cello, Irish harp and general musicianship from 1986 to 1995 before turning her full focus to the creative platform in architecture.

George is a published columnist, writer and award-winning designer at both national and international level. Projects in her portfolio include framework development plan, development control plan and phased projects at Leinster House and the houses of the Oireachtas with the OPW; masterplan and staged phases of development at Belvedere College, SJ, Dublin; student residences at Trinity Hall, Dartry for Trinity College Dublin; masterplan at Carton House & Demesne; Meath Strand strategic plan; Cromcastle masterplan; Waterford Crystal village; fitouts for the National Women's Council of Ireland, Rockland GAA, National Hurleymaking Academy, and many other projects. She specialises in strategic thinking, service design, framework planning, masterplanning and legal advisory services in addition to having an iconic design style.  She is an RIAI accredited Conservation Architect (Gd III).

George also works in a private capacity in a number of collaborative partnerships in architecture, design and adventures in other creative areas. She lives on the Grand Canal in Inchicore, which may, someday, be significant.

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