August 13th, 2010
At both of the talks that we hosted (Trinity Science Gallery and the Designing Dublin space) we supplied each member of the audience with a post-it and a pen. We then asked them to write, or draw, something that they loved about the city. After the talk, we collected all of the post-its. There was a rich selection of ideas. Some examples include:
Variety, Vibrancy, Closeness
Vibrant and Culture
Safe, Familiar, Relaxed
Randomness, People, Ideas
Theses post-its are now back in our studio and will provide us with a valuable source of inspiration and focus. Thanks again to all those who contributed.
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August 5th, 2010
Yesterday evening, Vannesa delivered a short presentation on the next Designing Dublin project, Love the City. The talk was well attended with heavy contributions by audience members during the Q&A.
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June 30th, 2010
Do you want to be part of a team that…
Learns big
Thinks boundlessly
Works collaboratively
Gathers a range of new methodologies
Magnifies their entrepreneurial spirit
Designs multiple quick solutions
And effects real change in Dublin’s City Centre?
Join us for one of our talks on Love the City, a learning project about Dublin’s City Centre.
Trinity Science Gallery
Pearse Street
Wednesday, 4th of August
18.00 – 20.00
Designing Dublin Studio
15 to 19 Essex Street West
Tuesday, 10th of August
19.00 – 21.00
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June 4th, 2010
Designing Dublin has recently completed a scoping project entitled Love the City. During a three month period, the Designing Dublin team: observed people and their interactions with the city; sourced and compiled known statistics relating to the city; developed new ideas for the city; listened to various stakeholders involved in with the city; defined challenges for the city; developed aspirations for the city; identified systems within the city; mapped the city. All of this work has been compiled into a book (which can be found below).
We are now in a position to announce that we will be soon be recruiting for a second Designing Dublin project. Anyone interested in applying can find out more by visiting www.design21c.com
00 Opening Section
01 Imaging City
02 Understanding City
03 Reviewing City
04 Ideating City
05 Listening Group
06 Ten Challenges
06a People City
07 Project Matching
08 Mapping City
09 Love the City
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June 1st, 2010
We spent three months living by Thomas Edison’s wise words: “There is no substitute for hard work”. The work to scope the Love the City project was challenging, pushing us to test our assumptions, assume leadership roles, and seek perfection. We became forensic investigators of the City. No stone left unturned!
With the scoping complete, our book produced, and an exhibition in our working space, it was time to celebrate the blood, sweat, tears, cake, caffeine, late nights, early mornings, paper-cuts, in-jokes, post-it notes!
On Monday 31st May we began our celebration with a presentation to our Steering Group, which was received very positively. After this we tucked into an Italian Mamma’s style lunch in our courtyard, an opportunity for us all to share our favourite foods, drinks and stories. For the afternoon, we opened the doors of our studio and invited everyone and anyone to come in and view the exhibition. It was wonderful to receive all of the constructive feedback, to share what we had learned and to listen to new opinions and voices of the City.
By the end of the night, Edison’s words had long been forgotten, replaced with Theodore Roosevelt’s “When you play, play hard”!!
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May 24th, 2010
Since March, the Designing Dublin: Learning to Learn team have been focusing their efforts on imaging, ideating, understanding, mapping and analysing the city centre. As we come to the close of this discovery phase, we would like to share our work with you and invite you to our Open Studio next Monday, May 31st between 3 and 7 pm.
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May 1st, 2010
We are very happy to present our submission for the Your Country, Your Call competition!
Below is a summary of our idea called Learning to Learn.
Download the pdf and find out more!
Learning to Learn Without Boundaries
We have evolved a method of learning that uses design thinking processes and tools to unlock human potential. We call this model, learning to learn.
The question we ask is, what is Ireland’s greatest asset?
The answer is her people.
So the question then is, how do we harness our greatest asset, transform our people, with their imagination, their curiosity, their creativity, their talents, their entrepreneurship, and their passion for discovering new ways of learning into active, engaged citizens who feel compelled to contribute to Ireland’s bright future?
Learning to learn has demonstrated it can create this change.
It is about combining our people with challenges and design thinking to produce solutions and enterprise to the power of 10.
We began developing learning to learn in 2006, since then…
500 people contributed to defining learning to learn.
17 people joined the learning to learn team.
1700 ideas were produced.
18 concepts were sketched.
5 projects were developed.
5000 people were impacted through various mediums.
300 residents engaged in the projects.
20 residents became project champions.
1 developer engaged in the projects.
1 team member started a new business.
1 team member re-energized a start-up business through the new skills.
1 team member started a PhD in citizenship engagement and social spaces.
1 team member returned to the private sector and applied her skills to her projects.
3 team members returned to the public sector and challenged the system.
5 team members formed a learning laboratory.
6 people were employed by Design Twentyfirst Century and have transitioned from students to teachers.
1 collaborator started a new business.
1 business network was established.
“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.” Charles Darwin
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March 26th, 2010
This week, an interview with Sarah featured in First Post; a publication by Dublin City Council.
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March 26th, 2010
This week, Designing Dublin were invited to present at the Academy of Urbanism. The Academy was formed in 2006 with the aim of encouraging debate on urbanism in both the UK and Ireland. The task of presenting was left to Jeremy who, despite the nerves, did a great job of conveying our story. There were a number of really inspiring speakers there on the night. In particular, Designing Dublin were really impressed with Niall O’Baoill. His work focuses on a disadvantaged community situated on the periphery of the city called Fatima Mansions. Niall told the story of how this community had rebuilt itself in the aftermath of a heroin epidemic. Some of the factual information he shared with us was astounding. Fatima Mansions had gone from a community with very little involvement with national politics to having one of the highest rates of voting of any community of it’s kind. Designing Dublin has a lot to learn from people like Niall; one of the benefits of the academy.
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