2023 Events On Demand
Daily highlights from across Irish Design Week
The Design & Crafts Council Ireland brought together the very best minds, makers and designers to celebrate creativity through a programme of events in venues across Ireland.
Workshops, exhibitions, talks and conferences took place throughout Ireland, focusing on the theme : Is Folklore the Future?
The events explored Ireland’s rich heritage of folklore and storytelling – currently topics being discussed in international design circles.
Monday 13th
November 2023
Monday 13th Nov
DCCI Irish Design Week 2023 Launch
This event kicked off conversations with leaders and influencers on Ireland’s plan for a National Design Centre.
Special Guests Included:
- Tim Marlow – CEO, Design Museum London
- Christian Bason – CEO, Danish Design Centre
- Fiona Chambers – UCC
- Gerry Farrell – Tibradden Craft Farm
- Rosemary Steen – CEO, DCCI
- Tom Watts – Head of Design, DCCI
Moderated by Fiona Kearney – The Glucksman Gallery, UCC.
Tuesday 14th
November 2023
Back to the Future of the GAA – by Design
Find out how well-known leaders and visionaries in the world of design and sport explore how folklore played a central role in developing the huge and much-treasured brand of the GAA.
Special Guests Included:
- Nickey Brennan (former GAA President)
- Paul Galvin (Writer, Designer & GAA All-Ireland Winner),
- Siobhan Doyle (Author of A history of the GAA in 100 Objects),
- Sean Torpey (MD, Torpey Hurls)
- Eamonn O’Sullivan (Creative Director, Anchor Studio)
- Jim Dunne (Brand Consultant)
- Dermot O’Shea (Digital & Brand)
Moderated by Eileen Dunne – Journalist & TV Newsreader.
Expand: Stretching the Future by Design – A Conversation with Christian Bason
In this intimate event, Christian will shared his insights into the transformative power of design thinking with the audience.
Special Guests Included:
- Christian Bason (CEO, Danish Design Centre)
- Laura Magahey (Chair, CreativeBoardroom:Collaborate4Climate)
Irish Design Week vision quest with Climate KIC
Watch back this creative journey to imagine food system futures and the place of design in agriculture.
Special Guests Included:
- Saskia Visser (Cluster Lead, Resilient and Climate)
- Neutral Regions (EIT Climate KIC (host)
- Randal Plunkett (Dunsany Nature Reserve)
- Bruce Thompson (8th generation Dairy Farmer)
- Joanne Sheahan (Senior Advisor Sustainability and Climate Action Enterprise Ireland)
- Clodagh Doyle, (Keeper of the Irish FolklifeCollection, National Museum of Ireland)
Wednesday 15th
November 2023
Co-Designing Equitable Opportunities
Sinead Burke, Tilting the Lens and Siobhan McKenna, Head of Equality, Diversity & Inclusion at the Public Appointments Service take part in this panel event. They were joined by Senator Tom Clonan and A Day in My Wheels (@spinalinjuriesireland), where they discussed reasonable accommodation and how employers, public spaces and businesses can make small but meaningful changes that make a massive difference to people’s lives.
Special Guests Included:
- Sinead Burke (Tilting the Lens)
- Siobhan McKenna (Head of Equality, Diversity & Inclusion at the Public Appointments Service)
- Senator Tom Clonan (Senator to Seanad Éireann)
- Dr Ger Craddock(Chief Officer of the Centre for Excellence in Universal Design)
Thursday 16th
November 2023
The Unpicking Action
Following on from her solo show ‘What we carry with us’ do not miss this chance to hear designer and artist Joanne Hynes explore ideas on the origin stories in each of us and how we navigate narratives through practice.
Special Guests Included:
- Joanne Hynes ( Designer and Artist)
- John Scott (Irish Modern Dance Theatre)
- Clíodhna Ní Anluain, (visual artist and RTÉ Arts and Culture producer)
The Intersection of Craft and Commerce
Do we design because we have a drive to create or are we driven to design by commercial concerns? The Intersection of Craft and Commerce was ran in association with TU Dublin.
Special Guests Included:
- Sean Toomey
- Chaïm Factor
- Megan Nolan Walsh
Neomateria Exhibition and Panel Discussion
Since 2019, the Neomateria Talks have nurtured a rich exchange among creators, including artisans, makers, and designers from various countries.
Special Guests Included:
- Robert D. Thompson (Scientific Director – Materfad)
- Laura Civetti (Fashion Tech Designer focused on Computational design and Material innovation for Circular design in the fashion industry)
- Zsofia Kollar (designer, researcher, published author, the founder of Human Material Loop, a material science company focusing on the utilization of human hair for various industries)
- Enda O’Dowd (lecturer in the Product Design Department at NCAD and joint course coordinator for the MSc in Medical Device Design)
- Chris Allen (Executive Director of Hemp Federation Ireland)
Friday 17th
November 2023
Protecting Design
Betty Funchion and Dr Fergal Brady from the Intellectual Property Office of Ireland, Holger Strøm and Erica Devine join forces for this event to discuss all things intellectual property. This is your opportunity to learn more about intellectual property protection for designers.
Special Guests Included:
- Holger Strøm
- Erica Devine
Hail Thee – We Come in Reveries of Change
Connemara designer and creative director Alison Conneely will present Hail Thee: We Come in Reveries of Change, her acclaimed project in partnership with the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), in Dublin, as part of DCCI Irish Design Week 2023.
Special Guests Included:
- Alison Conneely
- Emma Dabiri
- Annie Fletcher, IMMA
- Rosemary Steen
Blown Away
John Sleepy Moran and contestant MiNHi England from Netflix’s smash hit series “Blown Away” join Jerpoint Glass owner Rory Leadbetter for an intimate chat about all things glass!
Special Guests Included:
- John Sleepy Moran
- MiNHi England
- Rory Leadbetter