Woodspace: Exhibition of Wood Designers of the Present and the Future

Rotary Ireland and dlr LexIcon present Woodspace, an exhibition that features posters, video, design models and information on sustainable use of wood from forest to end product, including case studies of award-winning architects and designers alongside third level students. 

Collaboration is the theme of many of the projects featured in Woodspace including Venice Vessel and The Seamus Heaney Walk Seating Project. Both depended on support from communities, sawmillers, designers and makers.

Woodspace is an acknowledgment of the importance of forestry in climate change as outlined in Ireland's Climate Action Plan. The plan identifies afforestation as the single largest land-based climate change mitigation measure available to Ireland. It maintains that our existing forests increase carbon stores, and our forest products extend the carbon sink especially in construction where it displaces fossil-based concrete, brick and steel while wood energy displaces oil and gas.

Woodspace is supported by the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine and Rotary Ireland.