Programme Projects

In the Ocean we Hardly Know

A project examining alternative ways
of knowing and narrating with ocean
environments, as a response to the
planetary-scale environmental crises
and dominant understandings of
matter as inanimate and agentless.
Incorporating post-anthropocentric
and new materialist theory, marine
and auto-ethnographic research,
and novel tool testing practice.
This work presents a process of
place-based learning and narrative
generation. Demonstrating the
potential power of worlding
and mythology to engender new/old
understandings and generate
empathy between human actants
and the more-than-human of ocean environments.

Framing Hunger

This research explores the multifaceted nature of hunger, challenging the conventional framing within the four pillars of food security (availability, access, utilization, and stability). Adding a crucial link with the proposed agency pillar, advocating for empowerment and decentralized solutions in food systems.

AR Hike

Reimagining hiking navigation and safety using augmented reality, smart contact lenses and GPS in a plausible future.

About Time

Developing and testing new design-led methods which can shape and influence attitudes towards the long-term future with a view to affecting behaviours toward our individual futures, and our planet’s.

An Investigation into the Information Deficits Experienced by Breast Cancer Patients in Ireland

Examining the User Experience and Interface Design of websites dedicated to supplying cancer information and assessing the Quality of Information found by participants.

Promoting Awareness of Digital Pollution

Increasing the awareness of the negative impact that excessive data consumption has on the environment and developing more sustainable ‘digital-life’ habits for the future.

Entrepreneurship as a Socio-economic Tool for Resettlement

An investigation into how existing resettlement programs could diversify current strategies to support newcomer entrepreneurs and the next generation to become strong and successful small businesses entrepreneurs in closely-knit communities.

Tools for Reconciliation and Understanding

Empowering citizens, on both sides of a conflict zone, in conflict resolution in Columbia.

Rural Decline, Meet Farishtown!

Exploring new strategies to rewrite the rural boom-bust pattern in Longford, Ireland.

Stories for a Non-anthropocentric World

Designing experiences that aim to bring an attention back to the importance our ecological worlds and challenge our current human centric perspectives.