Small Spaces Big Living: a Community Housing Project

Interior and Furniture Design students taking Construction Studies worked with older people resident in Dublin City Council housing in the North Central area, to develop low-cost suggestions for improvements to the interiors of their apartments.https://arrow.tudublin.ie/civpostbk/1002/thumbnail.jp

James Joyce Run: Good Puzzle Would be Cross Dublin Without Passing a Pub

I write a blog www.jj21k.com which looks at the works of James Joyce, the environment which he wrote about and changes that have taken place since he wrote about them. The blogposts are predominantly about Dublin. As part of discovering Dublin by reading and Running I have written several longer pieces. In Ulysses Leopold Bloom thinks Good puzzle would be cross Dublin without passing a pub. This piece creates a running narrative that does just that, linking Cabra where the Joyce family lived on the north side of Dublin, with Shelbourne Road on the south side and where James Joyce moved to in 1904

James Joyce Run: Nothing Happens in the Public Houses, People Drink

I write a blog www.jj21k.com which looks at the works of James Joyce, the environment which he wrote about and changes that have taken place since he wrote about them. The blog posts are predominantly about Dublin. As part of discovering Dublin by reading and running, I have written several longer pieces. This piece creates a running narrative that runs past every pub that is mentioned in Ulysses that is still a pub. You can see more background information and other posts on www.jj21k.com

James Joyce Run: Why Are We on the Move Again If It\u27s a Fair Question?

I write a blog www.jj21k.com which looks at the works of James Joyce, the environment which he wrote about and changes that have taken place since he wrote about them. The blog posts are predominantly about Dublin. During a time of injury, instead of running I was able to cycle. This blogpost describes the journey James Joyce made through houses in Dublin that he lived in whilst growing up. This is paralleled with a cycle I made and narrative I wrote. You can see more background information and other posts on www.jj21k.com

James Joyce: I. AM. A. Discover Dublin by Reading and Running

You are walking through it howsomever. I am, a stride at a time. A very short space of time through very short times of space. James Joyce (Ulysses,p.31). In Ulysses, on the morning of the 16th June 1904, Stephen Dedalus is striding on Sandymount strand, thinking about time and place as he moves. Later in the day, Leopold Bloom writes I. AM. A.with a stick in the sand on the same Sandymount strand. His scrubbed words will wash away with the tide but remain forever in the novel. Using geotracking, I recreated the same ephemeral I. AM. A.in the same space, though in a different time. Like Bloom’s script, my words cannot be read in Sandymount, but they can be found on the internet, thanks to Runkeeper and MapBox. Have I run into eternity along Sandymount strand? Cities are not just economic engines, and we all use them in different ways. Joyce was playing with the city of Dublin, while in exile, using it differently and for a different purpose to most of its citizens. He was having fun with it, and he was having fun with us. Maybe it’s time we had some fun with him. This paper develops on from the pieces in my running blog, www.jj21k.com, Discover Dublin by Reading and Running. In his writings, Joyce created a version of Dublin. In my reading, my running, and in my writing, I compare Joyce’s Dublin to the Dublin of today noting the similarities, the differences and the developments. This paper examines what we can find out in the comparisons

The Presence of the Past: Conference Proceedings

Is architecture design? Where does it begin? Where does it end? With every iconic architect comes an iconic chair. Mies Van Der Rohe\u27s Barcelona Chair, Aalto\u27s Artek stool. Where is the furniture by Irish Architects? As Irish architecture has become internationally recognised what has happened to our furniture? Is furniture design oflittle interest to current Irish architects and will this change with the current market conditions

Discover Joyce\u27s Dublin by Reading and Running

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 be reconstructed out of my book.’” (Budgen, 1960, p.67, 68). This research looks at the relevance of Dublin to Joyce’s writings and to the relevance of Joyce’s writings to Dublin. It is concerned with the virtual Dublin of Joyce’s writings, the physical manifestation of Dublin over time, and the relationships between them. Numerous scholars read and analyse the writings of Joyce without ever visiting Dublin. Is it necessary to visit Dublin to fully appreciate the writings of Joyce, and is it necessary to read his writings to fully appreciate Dublin? What can be discovered in Dublin that cannot be discovered remotely? Could you, as Joyce intimates, recreate Dublin from his writing

What is the Optimal Structure for Organisations Representing Design and Designers on the Island of Ireland?

The research question addresses the issue of the structure of organisations that represent the interests of design and designers on the island of Ireland. The role of designers in Ireland is seen by society as marginal, rather than one central to the economic, social, and cultural well being of the island and those who live on it. This problem is exacerbated, as the organisational structures of those who play a key part are both confused and confusing. The answer to the question of what is an optimal structure lies in the literature that has been written on the subject and the experiences of the people who have played a key role in design organisations both on the island of Ireland and abroad. The significant literature was reviewed and ten key people were interviewed as part of this dissertation. The dissertation ends with conclusions and recommendations. These, if adopted, will help designers make better use of their collective resources, enabling them to increase the awareness of the importance of the role that design plays on the island. The island of Ireland is celebrated for its creative skills; the arts, literature and music. All are world renowned. Design is a creative activity. So why is Irish design not celebrated widely? The dissertation concludes that part of the answer lies in the fragmentation and dispersion of Irish designers, their lack of unity and their lack of a common voice. With no voice, the interests of Irish design and its designers are simply not being listened to; either on the island, throughout Europe, or internationally. The dissertation recommends that the representation of designers should be seen as separate to the representation of design. Design promotion can be undertaken on an allisland basis, whilst design support should be undertaken locally. If each of these activities is clearly defined and delivered, then we can move toward the creation of a design council. This has been done successfully in Norway, a country that has been striving to reduce its economic dependence on oil. Norway has invested heavily in design support and promotion for over ten years with significant results. This island has lessons to learn from Norway. The head of the Norwegian Design Council, Jan R. Stavik was interviewed as the final piece of this dissertation

James Joyce, Bruce Springsteen and the Notion of Exile: It\u27s a Town Full of Losers, and I\u27m Pulling Out of Here to Win

“It’s a town full of losers and I’m pulling out of here to win.” Bruce Springsteen (1975) Thunder Road, Track 1 of Born to Run [CD], Columbia. “So it returns. Think you\u27re escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.” James Joyce (1998) Ulysses, p.309. James Joyce was born towards the end of the nineteenth century, in Dublin, Ireland. He spent most of his life writing about Dublin while living in exile. Born in the United States in the middle of the twentieth century, Bruce Springsteen has spent a career writing and singing about leaving somewhere. With small exceptions, he never actually left New Jersey, choosing instead to live and raise a family in the state of his birth. Place is central to the writings of both Joyce and Springsteen, but for different reasons. Joyce wrote about the places that he lived in Dublin extensively in his works, as settings for events such as the short story The Boarding House in Dubliners, and the list of his former houses in Finnegans Wake. Dublin itself permeates most of his work, notably throughout Ulysses. In contrast, Springsteen writes extensively of the desire to leave somewhere. Joyce’s Dublin is not a real Dublin, nor is Springsteen’s New Jersey. They are edited and manipulated, redesigned to suit the artist’s intentions. Constantly on the move, James Joyce writes continuously about a place he has left, while Bruce Springsteen remains in place, writing and singing about leaving, though he ultimately settles there. Joyce is widely appreciated by people who have never visited Dublin. Springsteen is loved by people in Ireland, most of whom have no intention of leaving. This paper asks how real are the places that artists imagine? What does place mean to the artist and their audience? If place is not real then, what is exile, and what are borders

James Joyce Dubliners Run: He went through the narrow alley of Temple Bar quickly

I write a blog www.jj21k.com which looks at the works of James Joyce, the environment which he wrote about and changes that have taken place since he wrote about them. The blogposts are predominantly about Dublin. As part of discovering Dublin by reading and Running I have written several longer pieces. This piece creates a running narrative that runs through each of the Dubliners stories, physically connecting them and making observation on them and the city of Dublin. You can see more background information and other posts on www.jj21k.com