St mogues’ community pop-up cinema
St mogues’ community pop-up cinema
Location: Templeport hall Date: Friday, 29thStart time: 8pm St Mogues College is having their first pop-up Cinema as a way of developing the community, creating a space for socialising, bringing people to the area, creating potential job opportuni...
Creating Spaces for Young People
Creating Spaces for Young People
The Transition Year students of Abbey Vocational School in Donegal have begun their journey into the Design Thinking process. So far, they have completed two lessons and contributed many insights from their wealth of knowledge. For this course, th...
Greetings from County Monaghan
Greetings from County Monaghan
The team tackling the challenge to attract people to live and work in County Monaghan thoroughly enjoyed looking through all the postcards children had made in response to the question: What do you love most about County Monaghan? Over 40 school c...
A new Design Thinking journey begins!
A new Design Thinking journey begins!
At Beech Hill college, students will develop innovations around the theme: the right to repair. They began their innovating communities journey last week and are enthusiastic about bringing meaningful change to their community. The students will w...
St Louis Design Think a local approach to a global challenge!
St Louis Design Think a local approach to a glo...
St Louis Monaghan Town Transition Year students were featured in the local newspaper! Read the article right here:St Louis Monaghan Town Transition Year students are Design Thinking the climate crisis through Monaghan Integrated Development’s Inno...
More Stuff For Youngsters!
More Stuff For Youngsters!
The Bundoran Youth Services course conducted some user-research in the local schools in Bundoran. Their survey, which aims to find out what new facilities and amenities young people would like to see in their local area, has so far received over 3...
A visit from Maeve Foreman of Mud Island Community Garden.
A visit from Maeve Foreman of Mud Island Commun...
Yesterday the community garden and allotments course group had a visit from guest speaker Maeve Foreman from Mud Island Community Garden in Dublin. Mud Island was established in 2009 by a group of 10 community members with the hope of creating a s...
Would you like to be part of an innovative project to create a Community & Arts Space in Ballybay?
Would you like to be part of an innovative proj...
Would you like to be part of an innovative project to create a Community & Arts Space in Ballybay?We are a local group of volunteers, taking part in a free training programme and Design Thinking Challenge as part of a wider programme called In...
"Good people doing good things"
"Good people doing good things"
Team CCC (Community Climate Calendar) is gaining traction! Their idea-trialling event is being recognised by the people in Monaghan and shared on social media by the public. "Good people doing good things". This speaks volumes about all ...
Kiltyclogher's heartfelt Robins
Kiltyclogher's heartfelt Robins
One of the participants in our Innovating Communities project, artist Carol-Ann McGowan, has been featured on RTE showcasing her handcrafted robins. Carol is a graphic designer and has been making needle-felted robins as gifts to deliver by the po...
Monaghan’s Climate Action Youth Group Designs Their Curious Object
Monaghan’s Climate Action Youth Group Designs T...
The girls have voted to focus on waste as they experience the excessive use of plastic in school, leading to wastage, and have chosen to focus on solving this as their challenge. We explored the challenge today in their area, and the group had a g...