I was delighted to be invited back to visit Designing 21st century team's Dublin offices last Saturday morning to view the latest status of their project 'Designing Dublin : Learning to Learn' in Clongriffin as part of Dublin city Innovation week.
The Design 21st century team consist of members with various backgrounds working on the project including Jean, Jim, Vannesa and Deirdre Murphy the main founder.
For the pilot, The Designing Dublin project team had a wonderful team of 17 multi-disciplinary members who have been tasked with ‘Finding the Hidden Potential of Place’ in Clongriffin – a new residential area on Dublin city’s North Fringe.
As part of Innovation week, selected individuals, including myself, were asked to give their opinions on the main progress and concept plan so far from 14th Oct-21st Oct.
According to the Design 21st century co- founder, Deirdre Murphy, when I asked her about the project so far, she told me that 'we have learnt to be curious about the area and its community through visiting, researching, listening and discovering. We have identified key areas which we feel hold the hidden potential of Clongriffin, and through processes co-designed with a group of Kaospilots from Denmark who spent a week with us, we have tested these areas and learning'.
I am delighted to inform readers that the project was gone from strength to strength from the ideas generation panel that I attended last June to today's huge progress to drawing up a comprehensive drawing plan upon consultation with Dublin city council.
The event itself last Saturday involved 'Poster Brains' a imaginative activity for invited people to draw or sketch a positive, visionary scenerio as well as proto storming, which could be used as a suggestion or idea to be worked on further as a practical concept.
I enjoyed talking to Luke, one of the project team about business opportunities and also the actual Poster Brain drawings although my art work is not the best.
