Call in to studio 468 in St Andrew’s Community Centre to find out more about the School of Thought and their work.

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. There have been major waves of change across the Dublin 8 community which are having a significant effect on the nature and purpose of housing in the area. People’s deeply held values and ideas of what home and community mean to them are being eroded and transformed; financialised for extraction and profit; commodified for trade.

School of Thought works with a range of research-creation methodologies to collaboratively engage with residents across different communities in Dublin 8 in order to explore, unpack, and make visible some of the forces shaping and defining our collective futures. We will ask: who is shaping our future; what kind of future do we want; and how do we get there? By doing so we can aid the process of reimagining different collective futures to what’s currently being imposed on us.

studio 468 is programmed by Common Ground in partnership with the Rialto Development Association since 2003. Common Ground receives funding to support artists in studio 468 from the Arts Council and Dublin City Council arts office. The School of Thought is a response to COLLECTIVE FUTURES, a community based residency awarded by Common Ground in 2024.