Photo: Zoe Nolan

School of Thought Art Collective is a collaboration between long-time Dublin 8 resident, artist Augustine O’Donoghue and historian and educator Dr. Conor McCabe.

This interdisciplinary collective was established as a creative response to Collective Futures.  School of Thought acknowledges the need and value of working collaboratively across disciplines as a way of bridging different spheres of knowledge, to think through ideas from different perspectives in order to gain new insights and ways of working. They believe that in order to build a future we need to look at the past, that history is not linear but circular, and the future, in many ways, is old.

They will be in residence in studio 468 from February to December 2026 and will realise the final stage of their collaboration Taking to the Streets as part of Common Ground’s Collective Futures Awards 2024 –2026.

You can register your interest in attending research/events by emailing info@commonground.ie

Taking to the Streets is funded by the Arts Council’s Participation Project award 2026.