WIND AND WATER Infrastructures for the Wild Atlantic Way

Harvard GSD

For many rural populations, tourism offers an economic opportunity, but it can also stifle the development of a living place. Rural landscapes, historic towns, and cities, can become “living museums.” The changes that modern life brings can make the image of a place unpalatable.The focus of this studio is a rural landscape in western Ireland. Central to the ethos is the understanding of the place as an inhabited landscape, a landscape from which and within which people make a livelihood and a…