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Learning in practice: interview with Mathew Bates, Design Director, Design Partners

Whelan, Lynne; Maher, Carmel; Deevy, Colin (University of Limerick, 2016)

This article forms part of a Master’s Degree by research entitled ‘The Role of Practice Oriented Learning in Design & Creativity in an Irish Technological University

Perch design: reflections on a journey from design research to design practice and business

de Eyto, Adam (University of Limerick, 2016)

Simon Dennehy is the founder and CEO of Perch; he graduated from the National College of Art and Design in 2003. After working in industry with many progressive Irish companies, he chose to return to his alma mater to ...

Design for services: emerging practices in Ireland

O'Rafferty, Simon (University of Limerick, 2016)

For many people, services are difficult to define. We use them everyday but never own them. Our experience of services is often defined by many tangible and intangible elements, interactions and touchpoints. Our experiences ...

Maser interview: exploring the influences behind Ireland’s leading urban artist

Ó Riain, Marc (University of Limerick, 2016)

Street Art exists in a tenuous paradigm of legality. Much like skateboarding, graffiti expression can be seen both as a crime and as an art subculture. Masers work creates a definitive transition from traditional street ...

E-Portfolios in the interior design curriculum a review of the literature and development of an implementation plan to enhance practical components of the design studio

Kane, Orla (University of Limerick, 2016)

This paper will review the academic literature to establish the rationale behind the integration of an ePortfolio into design studio projects, by looking at the challenges many design lecturers currently face with various ...

Generative Sans: a generative typography project creating a complex future narrative that opens the possibilities of type with a versatility to be used across a wide variety of mediums

Butler, Leon (University of Limerick, 2016)

Generative typography is a relatively new area of type design that disrupts the norms and presents a new evolution of the processes that have developed. It sheds some of the tools defined in the last 30 years and allows ...

Design in Dublin: the city as a site of responsive and agile practice

McCole, Aideen (University of Limerick, 2016)

This article looks at design in Dublin from 2008 onwards and makes the assertion that the recession has brought about a number of characteristics in design practice in the city. There is a movement of contemporary design ...

Diary of a building: soliciting building users as proxy-researchers

O'Shea, Eoghan Conor (University of Limerick, 2016)

In order to investigate the responsiveness of buildings, and through buildings the responsiveness of local design cultures to ideas of inclusion, creativity needs to be applied to the methods of analysis. One of the ...

Birthspace, light and embodied experience: insights from the writings of Maurice Merleau-Ponty and James J. Gibson

Balabanoff, Doreen (University of Limerick, 2016)

This article was originally a response to the AIARG conference session on the theme of Person, Place and Time. My doctoral work in progress focuses on a practice-based, architectural ‘reimagining’ of the birth environment ...

Institute of Designers in Ireland: president’s address

Boyle, George (University of Ireland, 2016)

Since becoming President of the Institute of Designers in Ireland (IDI), the prevailing puzzle preoccupying everyone seems to be: “What is Design?”. I am astonished by how many are inclined to lead me to the same overwhelming ...

Redesigning Ireland

Milton, Alex (University of Limerick, 2016)

Given some of the momentous and unprecedented transformations currently convulsing the globe – from the challenges raised by globalisation and the renewed interest in provenance and heritage, to the spread of social media ...

Welcome to the third edition of Iterations

Madden, Jeremy (University of Limerick, 2016)

Iterations aims to encourage and provide a platform for designers interested in setting the standard in all aspects of design in the island of Ireland. A new year, a new edition; with the end of Irish Design 2015 it is ...

Scriba: design, iteration and a start-up journey

Craig, David (University of Limerick, 2015)

A Pocket of Ideas. The idea for Scriba was borne out of a practical and personal need that was not being satisfied by existing digital styli on the market. A love of well-designed products and technology harboured since ...

Increasing public health awareness of and capacity for arts-based therapy in medicine

Khan, Waqas Ultah; Moss, Hilary (American Medical Association, 2017)

In the Constitution of the World Health Organization (WHO), "health" was defined as a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being rather than merely the absence of disease ...

Developing the creative economy

Corcoran Kennedy, Marcella (University of Limerick, 2015)

The creative economy is one of the fastest growing sectors worldwide. It is estimated to comprise as much as seven percent of the global economy, employing 144 million people. The wider arts sector obviously enriches our ...

Austins: memory & place infographic

Quigley, Tim (University of Limerick, 2015)

Austins Department Store in Derry-Londonderry is reputed to be the oldest independent department store in the world. Austins was trading in Derry more than a decade before Harrods of London was built. Its presence in ...

Designing work: a study of collaboration and concentration in open-plan offices

Walsh, John (University of Limerick, 2015)

This article looks at the design of open-plan offices, particularly in relation to the impact of spatial design on different work-modes. It examines the history of the open-plan office, looking at how the open-plan workplace ...

Discover Joyce’s Dublin by reading and running

Sheehan, Barry (University of Limerick, 2015)

James Joyce told his friend Frank Budgen: “I want’ said Joyce, as we were walking down the Universitätstrasse, ‘to give a picture of Dublin so complete that if the city one day suddenly disappeared from the earth it could ...

The forces that shaped the Irish Regional Technical College buildings

Ó Riain, Marc; McCarthney, Kevin; Harrison, Jim; Gomes Correia, Larissa (University of Limerick, 2015)

The paper charts the early development of environmental thinking in Architecture up to the radical paradigm shift of modernism and brutalism. The resulting emphasis on proportional grammar over the technical performance ...

Moving towards user-centred services in the public sector

Madden, Heather; Ryan, Linzi (Univeristy of Limerick, 2015)

A movement has begun in the Irish public sector to embed Service Design as an innovative approach to conquer political and cultural divides in public organisations. Service Design utilises practical and scalable tools ...

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