Our Project
Finding the hidden potential of place.
Between September and November, the Designing Dublin team will collaborate on a project entitled “finding the hidden potential of place”. The team will focus their energy, optimism and solution-based design approach on the town of Clongriffin, located in Dublin’s North Fringe.
The frame of our project is broad and ambitious in scope. We believe that by being curious and open to every opportunity in Clongriffin, we will understand and design projects that are purposefully made for and with the residents of Clongriffin.
Stay tuned for our advances!
Designing Dublin.
Designing Dublin: Learning to Learn intends to engage individuals in a design process that generates collaboration, invents solutions and builds entrepreneurship by giving individuals the opportunity to interact with Dublin city as a living laboratory.
We need a Culture of Learning.
In these times of transition radical reinvention is needed across all of life.
We believe that by building a Culture of Learning we can provide a new generation of entrepreneurs with the tools to design inventive solutions to the new global challenges – learning, mobility, shelter, diversity, public space, sustainability and health.
To grow a Culture of Learning we need an open, holistic and dynamic new learning system. A model that is multi-disciplinary, collaborative, iterative, driven by curiosity, inclusive, experiential, real world, public, solution-driven and which most importantly encourages people to understand how they can contribute purposefully to the future of their country and to the world in the 21st Century.
We believe that there is no perfect answer when defining this new learning system. We have decided to begin anywhere by running the Designing Dublin: Learning to Learn pilot. Our intention is to test Design Thinking as a tool to empower learning that generates solutions through proposals, ideation, prototyping, testing and iteration.
Team 17.
Designing Dublin: Learning to Learn brings together 9 citizens, 7 Dublin City Council and 1 Fingal County Council employees to collaborate on the project entitled - finding the hidden potential of place. The multi-disciplinary team will combine their expertise, willingness, creativity, and knowledge of the city’s policies and initiatives to invent new solutions for Clongriffin, located in Dublin's North Fringe.
The team will join a purpose-driven experience and will:
Work on a very complex, very public project.
Collaborate on a multi-disciplinary team.
Undergo immersive learning.
Learn to question the questions.
Broaden citizen participation through discourse.
Use Dublin as a living laboratory.
Tap into existing knowledge.
Scout for new knowledge.
Invent solutions.
Prototype and iterate.
As part of the discourse and learning from the experience, the Designing Dublin: Learning to Learn team will participate in Innovation Dublin – a week-long festival of workshops, events and showcases highlighting and encouraging innovation in the city.
Our partners.
The Designing Dublin: Learning to Learn pilot will involve many citywide partners who will help to define solutions to the project. As part of the learning process, team members will draw from the expertise of both national and international academics, experts, artists, researchers, urban planners, architects, scientists, inventors, entrepreneurs and many more people.
In September a team of KaosPilots from Aarhus, Denmark will join the Designing Dublin: Learning to Learn team. The intention of this cross-pollination will be to share tools and expertise to promote invention through learning.
Our direct partners are Dublin City Council and Creative Dublin Alliance.
