Dr Mary Cawley of NUI Galway contributed to the 2002 series 'Engaging Spaces' on the nature of space in our lives. Her lecture 'The Rural Idyll' contrast the rural idyll of more recent times with those of Classical Greece, the Romantics, builders of 19th century Irish nationhood.

Irish Geographer Dr Patrick Duffy of Maynooth University, contributed to the 2002 series 'Engaging Spaces' on the nature of space in our lives. Here is his lecture 'Change and Renewal in Issues of Place, Identity and the Local' which considers an emerging re-evaluation of the local in our behaviour and interests

Geographer Dr Ruth McManus, lectures at Dublin City University, and contributed to the RTÉ Radio 2002 series 'Engaging Spaces' which considered the nature of space in our lives. Her lecture entitled Urban Dreams, Urban Nightmare looks at the urban areas we create.

Geographer Jim Hourihane was consultant editor of a series first broadcast in 2002 entitled ‘Engaging Spaces’ which explores the nature of space in our lives; how we occupy space and how it engages us. Here is his own lecture in the series: ‘Spaces of the Mind’.

The RTÉ Radio 1 DAVIS NOW LECTURES podcast presents new or previously broadcast commissioned lectures on timely subjects from Ireland’s finest scholars, thinkers and artists. The inspiration for the podcast is the iconic RTÉ THOMAS DAVIS lectures which for over half a century since 1953 featured newly written radio talks on a host of subjects.

Studio conversation with host and lecturer Ellen Rowley, and lecturers Linda Doyle, Róise Goan, Michelle Norris and Hugh Campbell.

'Lecture 5: Houses in Motion: Architecture and Patterns of Dwelling' by Professor Hugh Campbell, the School of Architecture, Planning and Environmental Policy, University College Dublin.

Unmaking Home: Making Homes for Shelter or for Investment? by Professor Michelle Norris, Head of the School of Social Policy, Social Work, and Social Justice, University College Dublin, Ireland.

'Too Close to Home: Irish Theatre and Home' by Róise Goan, Artistic Director of Artsadmin, London recorded in Glebe House, Donegal, Ireland.

'Bricks, Mortar and Data: The Future Home' by Dr Linda Doyle, Vice President /Dean for Research and Professor of Engineering and the Arts, Trinity College Dublin.