IT Carlow was the big winner at last night’s Institute Designers Ireland (IDI) Design Awards 2015 in Dublin’s Marker Hotel with its designCORE hub at the Carlow campus taking the two top awards on the night - Design Education and the ID2015 Special Award for Collaboration.
designCORE won the Design Education Award for the inaugural Irish Design Research Conference it organised at IT Carlow in June of this year entitled Faultlines - Bridging Knowledge Spaces. The conference featured three keynote speakers and saw a host of national and international design researchers - including representation from designCORE- present more than 30 papers on subjects such as User Experience, Design for Older Adults, Design Thinking, Leadership & Strategy and Design for Policy.
Later on in the night, designCORE was awarded the ID2015 Special Award for Collaboration for ITERATIONS, a publication of research, practice and emergent thought leaders within the design discipline, comprising research papers, reflections on design practice, case studies, visual essays, discussions and opinion pieces, invited editorials, interviews and reviews.
A team from designCORE at IT Carlow were present on the night to accept the awards, including lecturers Colin Deevy, PJ White and Con Kennedy. Speaking after the awards, Allison Kenneally, Head of Department of Humanities at IT Carlow said, “The IDI Awards are recognised as the pinnacle of the design industry in Ireland, so it’s a huge reflection on the caliber of design at IT Carlow for it two take, not just one, but two awards at IDI Design Awards 2015. I congratulate the entire designCORE team and we’re delighted that the exceptional projects of the Faultlines Conference and ITERATIONS publication should achieve this public recognition”.
The IDI is Ireland’s largest and oldest association of design professionals and the IDI Design Awards are Ireland’s only multi-disciplinary professional design prizes that recognise excellence and innovation in creative practice. Through the Awards programme, the IDI seeks to advance the cause of Irish design and spread its influence.
There were 320 entries for this year’s awards - the largest to date in the competition’s history - with 87 shortlisted entries across 25 categories. All of these projects currently feature in the annual Design Awards Exhibition at the Teeling Whiskey Distillery building in Newmarket Square, Dublin 8.
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For reference/further info: Alma Feeley, IT Carlow
e:alma.feeley@itcarlow.ie t: 059 9175098