Mechanicsville
An essay in 11 parts on the character of engineering

6-8pm, Monday 7 November
at the National Print Museum, Beggar’s Bush Barracks, Haddington Road, Dublin 4. All welcome.

This book is the product of research undertaken in the course of the Art and Research Collaboration MA programme at IADT.

Mechanicsville is an artist’s book which takes the form of an essayistic investigation into the culture and character of engineering. Engineering is both a technical activity and a community of practice with its own norms and values. I have drawn on episodes in the history of engineering design since the early 19th Century to assemble a microhistory of the influence and evolving nature of the discipline. My intention is to evoke the essential competences and contributions of engineers, but also to consider the ethical and political consequences of engineering.

Mechanicsville is a paperback, 147 pages, and will be available for sale at €10.