CCAE have just launched a call for papers for a conference in CCAE next March titled Architecture in the Critical Zone. AIARG 2026 | University College Cork The term "Critical Zone" is taken from the geo-sciences and describes the biochemical, fragile layer of the earth, its surface on which life is created. By the French philosopher Bruno Latour, the term is extended to a critical, participatory relationship to our living world, whose threatened state has reached an unprecedented scale in the Earth's now man-made history. Latour has described this worldwide situation, which affects all living beings on the planet, as a "new climate regime". It is not limited to ecological crises, but touches on questions of politics and cultural history as well as ethical and epistemological changes of perspective. The call invites submissions from other disciplines to contribute to architecture's reconception of the terrestrial in this time of climate crisis and we would welcome contributions from colleagues in engineering and sustainability.    

The School will be running a seminar on the Celtic Interconnector project sponsored by the Institution of Engineering Technology (IET) at 6:30pm – 8:30 pm on Thursday 4th December in Cummins G.02.  

UCC reached great heights in a recent rocketry competition. The Rocketry and Space ExplorationSociety, one of UCC’s newest engineering society, hit it big in their first competitive appearance.The team recently appeared in Mach-25, a rocketry competition held in Machrihanish airbase inScotland. Here, the team launched Prometheus, their first high-powered rocket.This project has been long in the works and a big achievement for the society. Development ofPrometheus began in November last year. Being the society’s first high-powered rocket, and the secondrocket ever manufactured by the society, it was a huge undertaking for the budding team.