IDEATE is a multi-disciplinary mini- festival about making; it explores and celebrates craft, design and creativity through experimentation and collaboration and aims to build a community of practice actively engaged with innovation, technology and design. IDEATE has been devised and produced by the Crafts Council of Ireland and the National Craft Gallery to mark the 50th anniversary of the establishment of the Kilkenny Design Workshops, a visionary state- sponsored design agency set up in response to the 1961 Design in Ireland report. It is part of the Gathering Kilkenny 2013 programme. Ideate… Sponsors
European Union European Regional Development Fund
European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) / Europe and Wales Southern and Eastern Regional Assembly / Ireland Wales 2007–2013 Ireland’s EU Structural Funds Programmes 2007–2013
IDEATE has been fortunate to receive sponsorship and support from a number of Kilkenny-based businesses that share our focus on innovation, intelligence and quality. We are sponsored by AIB, who are committed to investing in creativity & innovation and are delighted to sponsor the Ideate Festival. Our accommodation partner is the beautiful Pembroke Hotel on Patrick Street, which has now developed a four-star business centre to match its luxury boutique hotel status – we loved their enthusiasm and lateral thinking in finding bespoke solutions to our event needs; similarly, Lemongrass restaurant on John’s Bridge rose to the challenge with their gorgeous Asian-fusion street food, created with locally-sourced natural produce by their talented Asian chefs – perfectly accompanied by Brewery Corner, Kilkenny’s craft beer pub in Irishtown; with a focus on locally produced, small Irish brewers, they serve only Irish beers and ciders from artisan brewers on draught, with a huge international selection of bottled beer. Ideate… Contents
Events at a glance 4 Making Things 6 Making Worlds 10
Innocrafts strand 14 Digital Fabrication 16 Design Intelligence 18 Workshops 20 Live music and live art 24
Creative City 25 Creative City Talks 26 Creative City Exhibitions 29 Creative City on Screen 33
Acknowledgements 36
IDEATE Festival 2013 / Contents Exhibitions Making Things Better National Craft Gallery, Castle Yard 10.00 am – 5.30 pm free, drop-in Living With Design National Craft Gallery, Castle Yard 10.00 am – 5.30 pm free, drop-in The Secret of Kells Studio, Castle Yard 10.00 am – 6.00 pm free, drop-in Three Threads Court Yard Gallery 2, Castle Yard 11.00 am – 6.00 pm free, drop-in Design in Practice Pembroke Hotel, Patrick Street 10.00 am – 6.00 pm free, drop-in The Principles of Design Rudolf Heltzel, Patrick Street 9.30 am – 5.30 pm free, drop-in Pallet to Product Rothe House, Parliament Street 10.00 am – 6.00 pm free, drop-in
Friday 5th July Friday Workshops
Solid Works Pembroke Business Innovation Centre 9.40 am – 12.40 pm €8, Booking necessary Social Crochet Court Yard Gallery 2, Castle Yard 11.00 am – 6.00 pm free, drop-in Haptic Modelling Parade Tower, Kilkenny Castle 2.30 pm – 5.00 pm €8, Booking necessary Talks Making Things Parade Tower, Castle Yard 10.00 am – 1.30 pm €8, Booking necessary* Making Worlds City Hall, High Street 2.30 pm – 5.30 pm €8, Booking necessary* *only €12 for both Seminars Innocrafts Focus Group National Craft Gallery 7.30 pm – 9.30 pm closed Creative City Chris Heltzel Rudolf Heltzel, Patrick Street 1.00 pm – 1.30 pm free, drop-in Anna O’Sullivan Butler Gallery, Kilkenny Castle 4.00 pm – 4.30 pm free, drop-in
Events at a Glance at Events Mel O’Rourke Butler Gallery, Kilkenny Castle 4.40 pm – 5.10 pm free, drop-in
Daniela Cardillo Wishingbone Gallery, The Parade 5.20 pm – 5.50 pm free, drop-in Eimear Conyard CCoI Jewellery School, Castle Yard 6.15 pm – 6.45 pm free, drop-in Film Creative City on Screen Billy Byrne’s Bar, John Street 5.00 pm – 8.00 pm, free, drop-in Performance IDEATE Fennelly’s presents ‘Fox in Town’ Cleere’s Theatre, Parliament Street 5.00 pm – 10.00 pm free, drop-in Live Art Draw-Off Pembroke Hotel, Patrick Street4 9.00 pm – 11.30 pm free, drop-in Bookings and registration Most events are free and drop-in, however, some events require tickets, see the booking info under each event for more details. Ticketed events must be paid for in advance, and tickets can be collected at the door. The live art Draw-Off is not ticketed, but has an admission fee to be paid at the door – see p 24 for details. Festival bookings e: [email protected] t: +353 (0)56 779 6147 Festival information e: [email protected]
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Sounds of System Breakdown System of Sounds IDEATE Festival Wrap Party Nation Handmade Making –Hurl Hands Kerry Co. Gneeveguilla, for Churn Butter IKEA FolkIrish Furniture &Thinking Design Film Mick Minogue Lynch Rosie Morton John and Slattery Alan Maguire, Ken Naoise Nunn Milo Fitzgerald Stewart Ross Tomm Moore John Cleere Butler Mary Creative City Intelligence Design 3D in Future The Mam yer for Fabrication Digital Talks Gym Brain Packaging Design Crochet Social Workshops toPallet Product Practice in Design Threads Three Kells of Secret The Design With Living Better Things Making Exhibitions Kilkenny City Centre, Centre, City Kilkenny Black Mill Street Mill Black
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IDEATE Events at a Glance Saturday 6th July Friday 5th July Parade Tower, Kilkenny Castle 10.00am – 1.30pm €8 (€12 for both Friday seminars)
Bookings and registration Book in Advance e: [email protected] / t: +353 (0)56 779 6147 Making Things … Our abilities and processes of object-making have defined human development. In the 21st Century, user-focused design and shifts in technology are transforming the relationships between object, maker and user. Making Things explores those relationships from psychological, technological and creative perspectives.
Photography: Sean Breithaupt Chair, Thinkhouse Speakers Dr. Margaret Wasz is a consultant existential analyst. She holds a PhD in Existential Phenomenological Psychotherapy, an MPhil in Psychoanalytical Studies, an MA in Humanistic & Integrative Psychotherapy, a H Dip in
Designgoat Psychology, and Cert in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. Her particular area of interest is existentialism and phenomenology and how we can move beyond the ‘given’ to see the ‘real’, and understand our psychological experience in , Tubular steel & Birch plywood, 2013 plywood, & Birch steel , Tubular the world. 7 Ben Harris is an Industrial Design graduate of London’s Brunel University and San Francisco’s State University. He spent six years working in the design industry bringing products to the global market and established White Zebra Studios (WZS) in Dublin in 2011. The company’s first project, a relaxing seat for children with special needs, won IDI Awards for Excellence in both furniture and universal design categories. WZS are currently applying their user-centered design approach to develop a wide range of products from iPhone accessories to fitness furniture.
Derek Wilson graduated from the University of Ulster in 2007 with an MA in Applied Arts. He has exhibited extensively through out the UK and Ireland and was recently selected and featured in Wallpaper* magazine’s ‘Handmade’ Milan exhibition. His practice as a ceramicist encompasses a diverse range of contemporary objects, from the functional to the sculptural. He aims to push the boundaries of a traditional and diverse art form through playing with its aesthetics, materiality and processes. Derek was commissioned by the National Craft Gallery to respond to the Royal Irish Academy’s (RIA) History of Ireland in 100 Objects for the exhibition Making Things Better. →
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IDEATE Festival 2013 / Making Things Making Things …
Friday 5th July Parade Tower, Kilkenny Castle 10.00am – 1.30pm €8 (€12 for both Friday seminars)
Designgoat are an industrial design studio based in Dublin. Set up in 2011 by Cian Corcoran and Ahmad Fakhry, they work on a broad range of projects, creating experiences with products, spaces, furniture and food. They work with local start-ups, established companies and international clients as well as doing private commissions and their own bespoke products. Designgoat were commissioned by the National Craft Gallery to respond to the RIA’s History of Ireland in 100 Objects for the exhibition Making Things Better.
Dr. Margaret Wasz Bryan Leech is a lecturer and researcher in Product Design at designCORE in Institute of Technology Carlow. He has extensive industry experience both in Ireland and overseas having worked in the Denmark, the Philippines, Bangladesh, Barbados, Zimbabwe and Bolivia. He has designed and developed products for small indigenous SMEs and larger multinational companies such as Apple Computers, Lake Landis and Gyre, GEA, Square D, Crown Controls, and Westinghouse. He has a particular interest in additive Ben Harris manufacturing technologies and their potential for assisting industrial, craft and artistic sectors in research, design development and production.
Programme Dr. Margaret Wasz: Psychology and The Object; how our psychological blueprint impacts our experience of objects.
Derek Wilson 9 Ben Harris : The importance of universal, user centered design. (supported by INNOCRAFTS) Derek Wilson: From Idea to Production; the translation of ideas into material processes and utilitarian objects. Designgoat (Cian Corcoran and Ahmad Fakhry ) : Work; the processes that led us to here.
Cian Corcoran & Ahmad Fakhry (Designgoat) Bryan Leech : Olduvai to Objet; how ‘cutting edge’ technologies, from ancient Olduvai stone tools to high-tech Objet 3D printers, have impacted on mankind and the manufacture of objects. Bookings and registration Book in advance e: [email protected] / t: + 353 (0)56 779 6147
Bryan Leech
IDEATE Festival 2013 / Making Things Friday 5th July City Hall, High Street 2.30 – 5.30pm €8 (€12 for both Friday seminars)
Bookings and registration Book in Advance e: [email protected] / t: +353 (0)56 779 6147 Making Worlds … In our interconnected and globalised world, we have a keener awareness of the consequences of actions than ever before. This is creating a paradigm-shift from passive consumption to active participation. Making Worlds explores the active roles that craft, design and creativity can play in building the world around us, looking at civic planning, sustainability, and new and inclusive methodologies.
Photography: Brian Cregan Bridge, Seasonal Speakers Ali Grehan was appointed Dublin City Architect in January 2008. She devised and coordinated PIVOT, Dublin’s bid for World Design Capital 2014, and is currently leading the Parnell Square Cultural Quarter project, a ground-breaking Commonage collaboration between the private and public sector. Her career has spanned private practice in Dublin and London, as well as the Public Service. She was a member of the Railway Procurement Agency team that delivered Dublin’s first
workshop led by LiD Architecture, 2012 Architecture, LiD by led workshop Light Rail system in the mid nineties and joined Ballymun Regeneration in 1999 where she was appointed11 Chief Architect in 2006. She was recently re-elected to the Council of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland where she continues to advocate for the value of better design by way of interdisciplinary collaboration. Davie Philips manages the Community Resilience Programme at Cultivate, focusing on developing sustainability and community through events and training. He curates the Global Green area of the Electric Picnic, conceived and directed the ‘Powerdown Show’ a 10 part TV series on how communities can do more for themselves and recently he wrote and directed a short film on resilient communities, ‘Surfing the Waves of Change’. He was a founding member of both FEASTA: the Foundation for the Economics of Sustainability and
Sustainable Projects Ireland, the company behind the Cloughjordan Ecovillage project, Co. Tipperary. Anthony Kelly graduated from Limerick Institute of Technology in Electronic Engineering and has extensive experience as an electronic engineer in multinational integrated circuit design companies. He has been involved in the Cloughjordan EcoVillage project since 2008, and led on the development of services for the village, including the fibre optic telecommunications network. He is a founding member of the North Tipperary Green Enterprise Park and a member of the Cloughjordan Ecovillage Service Company. He is currently involved in establishing digital manufacturing facilities in the village. →
IDEATE Festival 2013 / Making Worlds Making Worlds …
Friday 5th July City Hall, High Street 2.30 – 5.30pm €8 (€12 for both Friday seminars)
Commonage is a community-based organisation in Callan, Co. Kilkenny which seeks to commission and provide a critical platform for contemporary art and architecture practice in the public realm. Commonage recently completed the pilot research phase of ‘Nimble Spaces’, a project in development with Camphill Communities as a long-term process of collaboration between artists, architects and adults with an intellectual disability to imaginatively identify and create a ‘nimble’ solution to specific housing needs. Other recent projects
Ali Grehan include ‘Landing Place’, a partnership with Dublin City Heritage Office relating to public access and engagement with the Pigeon House Precinct in Dublin Bay. Malcolm Noonan is an elected member of Kilkenny Borough and County Council. As Mayor of the City in 2009 he advanced Kilkenny’s participation in LINKS, a partnership project with nine municipalities across the EU. LINKS sought to establish a collaborative dialogue between citizen and planners around the consolidation of historic town centres, adopt ecological solutions to Davie Philips the restoration of heritage buildings and initiate a pilot scheme for restoration. His main areas of work as a policymaker are in rural development, biodiversity, urban mobility and social inclusion. Malcolm is Green Party Spokesperson for Environment, Community and Local Government. Denis Malone is a Senior Planner with Kilkenny Borough and County Councils since 2007. He holds particular responsibility for producing the city and county development plans and the public participation processes informing them. Anthony Kelly 12 He has just completed a series of public consultation initiatives around the preparation of the new plans for 2014 to 2020.
Programme Ali Grehan: Cities that value design in how they think, plan and act are more humane, attractive and competitive Davie Philips: The role of creativity in building dynamic and resilient
Rosie Lynch communities Anthony Kelly : A rural Irish FabLab; accessible digital manufacturing (supported by INNOCRAFTS) Rosie Lynch : Activating the Commons; what constitutes the commons and how does this impact on how we understand and shape our environment? Malcolm Noonan and Denis Malone: Collaborative Planning;
Malcolm Noonan the Citizen as expert Bookings and registration Book in advance e: [email protected] / t: + 353 (0)56 779 6147
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Innocrafts… innovating policies for entrepreneurship in the crafts sector
Innocrafts is an EU-funded programme bringing together international organisations from the craft, enterprise, rural development and third-level sectors, in order to promote entrepreneurship and business creation in European Regions through knowledge-sharing. The programme is funded by the Interregional Cooperation Programme INTERREG IVC, financed by the European Union’s Regional Development Fund as part of an overall strategy by the European Commission to promote the sustainable development of small businesses in the art/craft sector. The activities officially started on the 1st January 2012 and will last until the end of 2014. INNOCRAFTS aims to strengthen the policy capacity of the involved partners to support entrepreneurship and SMEs, to modernise their economies and improve their global competitive position. Experiences will be drawn from the partners’ most successful initiatives developed by their local and regional development strategies and programmes. The INNOCRAFTS strand in the IDEATE Festival is intended to generate and share indepth knowledge, experience and expertise around the understanding and development of design and digital technology skills in contemporary craft. Photography: ClionPhotography: O’Flaherty Stools, Stitched The INNNOCRAFTS strand comprises the following talks, workshops and activities: Friday Saturday Superfolk Ben Harris The importance of Jordan Ralph Packaging Design; universal, user centered, design a design ideation, refinement and
, Oak and Ash, 2010 Ash, and , Oak prototyping workshop Anthony Kelly A rural Irish FabLab; accessible digital15 manufacturing Tara Whelan Digital Fabrication for your Mam; demystifying digital Focus Group a pop-up World making for everybody! Café in the National Craft Gallery interrogating the day’s seminars Louise Allen, 3D Dave and Stephen to create a road map for future O’Briain The Future in 3D; the development (with street food by threats and opportunities of digital Lemongrass plus craft beer by fabrication for craft Kilkenny’s Brewery Corner) Garrett Pickett, David Smith and Gareth Kennedy Design Intelligence; an insight into three very different successful creative practices
PROJECT PARTNERSHIP Municipality of Florence (Italy) – Lead Partner; National Association of Italian Municipalities Tuscany (Italy); National Institute of Arts and Crafts (France); Public Foundation The Legacy of al-Andalus (Spain); Bistrita Municipality (Romania)Regional Association of Municipalities; Burgas Municipality (Bulgaria); Chamber of Commerce of Barcelona (Spain); Aalto University School of Art and Design (Finland); Riga City Council, Department of Education, Culture and Sports (Latvia); Vilnius Old Town Renewal Agency (Lithuania); Reims City Council (France); Crafts Council of Ireland (Ireland); Budapest Enterprise Agency(Hungary); Slovak Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Slovakia)
IDEATE Festival 2013 / Innocrafts Innocrafts: Digital fabrication for yer mam … demystifying digital making for non-digital natives; Tara Whelan will talk about Workbench Network, a project developing a simple, low-cost route into the world of digital fabrication.
Aimed at those unfamiliar with the world of digital Saturday 6th July fabrication, Tara will discuss how these tools can be Pembroke Business Innovation Centre accessed and the practical advantages of bringing digital 11 Patrick Street fabrication into craft practice. 10.30 – 11.30am Tara has a background in industrial design, graduating €5, Booking necessary from NCAD, and has a post-graduate diploma in Interactive Media. She has worked across design, art and interactive media on projects as diverse as concept design for Waterford Crystal, workshop facilitation for Limerick City Gallery of Art and working with community groups in Moyross. As a founder member of The Civic Works, Tara leads on operational delivery, creating research and documentation materials, engaging with end users, prototyping and running co-creative development sessions. She combines a deep understanding16 of hands- on design skills with strategic thinking.
Tara is currently working on developing and testing Workbench Network. “We are about igniting a passion and confidence in making, so people can directly create a more useful and meaningful world”. Paperbot, Tara Whelan, 2012
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IDEATE Festival 2013 / Digital Fabrication Innocrafts: The Future in 3D … In discussion with furniture maker Stephen O’Briain, 3D Dave and the audience, Louise Allen takes us on a whistle-stop tour of the future, exploring the leading edge of 3D printing and the challenges and opportunities it offers craft in the 21st Century.
Saturday 6th July Louise Allen holds a BA from the National College of Art Pembroke Business Innovation Centre & Design and a PG Dip in European Cultural Management 11 Patrick Street from the Foundation Marcel Hichter. She has worked with 11.30am – 1.30pm and for a number of cultural organisations including the Free Event, drop in Butler Gallery, Kilkenny, Samhlaíocht, Kerry, Terryglass Arts Festival, plus as Arts Officer for Kilkenny County Council. She is currently on the board of the World Crafts Council – Europe and has previously been a board member of ORACLE, a network of cultural operators across Europe. Louise has worked with the Crafts Council of Ireland for a number of years as Education and Innovation Manager and was appointed Head of Innovation and Development Programmes in 2012.
Stephen O’Briain comes from a family tradition of 17 woodworking that stretches back three generations.
He trained as a fine art painter before specialising as a
furnituremaker. As well as private commissions for clients
in Ireland, Britain and the United States, Stephen has
also worked on major corporate and public commissions
including furniture for Government Buildings (Dublin) and the
3D printed prototype for Fusion ll Chair, Irish Embassy, Tel Aviv. In 2011, he embarked on a research
Stephen O’Briain, 2013 project with designCORE research centre to investigate the
potential of digital technology as a tool in his work.
3D Dave is a self-confessed digital junkie and technological whizz-kid who enjoys pushing the technology to its limit. He teaches courses in 3D printing and has produced 3D printing demonstrations for Intel, TOG, TEDx, and Dublin Mini Maker Faire.
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IDEATE Festival 2013 / Digital Fabrication Innocrafts: Design Intelligence … Design Intelligence gives an overview of practice by three very different creative individuals. Although operating in different areas, each is linked by the quality of their ability, the expertise they bring to bear in their particular careers, and the degree to which each has followed their particular specialised passion. Their talks offer an insight into successful creative approaches, with an opportunity for questions and answers.
Garrett Pitcher Founder & CBO Indigo & Cloth, Friday 5th July graduated from a scholarship Business degree in Dublin National Craft Gallery, Business School in 2003 and has worked in marketing Castle Yard and brand management roles for the18 last ten years, 3.00 – 4.30pm initially within the drinks industry before moving into the Free Event, drop in fashion world and working with brands such as Pepe, Tommy Hilfiger and Lee jeans. In 2007 Garrett founded Indigo & Cloth. Primarily a concept-driven fashion store, the company also consults in branding and marketing strategy. In 2012 Indigo & Cloth incorporated a design agency into the business allowing it to offer multi- disciplinary creative services. It has since expanded the team and moved location to the new (and beautifully designed) HQ in Temple Bar, Dublin. →
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IDEATE Festival 2013 / Design Intelligence David Smith, Atelier David Smith, graduated from Dun Laoghaire College of Art and Design in 1993. He worked variously as an agency designer, independent editorial designer and art director, before completing graduate studies at L’Atelier National de Recherche Typographique, ENSAD, Paris. He worked freelance in Paris before moving to the Netherlands to work with UNA (Amsterdam) designers, where his work received the Nederlands Huisstijl Prize (2000) and a Premier award for typography from the ISTD. He established his atelier in 2000 and with long-time associate Oran Day, has received numerous national awards for published work. In 2010 David was the first Irish Display system by Design Goat for Indigo & Cloth graphic designer inducted into the prestigious Alliance Graphique Internationale (AGI) – a select professional organisation of “the world’s best practitioners”, where he commenced an Executive role as Education Officer in September 2012. He is the former Chair of the Visual Communications Programme at the Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Dun Laoghaire, where he lectures in design and typography. Under his direction the programme was recognised as one of the top 100 European design schools by DOMUS magazine. Gareth Kennedy, Artist, graduated from the National College of Art and Design in 2003 with a BA in Sculpture. He has produced and shown work widely, both nationally and internationally, and in 2009 he co-represented Ireland at the 53rd Venice Biennale. Since 2010, Gareth House Projects, Atelier David Smith has been developing an anthropological approach as a method of operating within specific locales to generate contemporary ‘folk fictions’. These works draw on the particular social, cultural and economic19 histories of a people and a place, in order to craft work that is a meaningful composite of their specific contexts. His outcomes typically include architectural or designed structures or hand-crafted objects, as well as live performative events which bring these physical entities to life within specific public contexts. These works explore the social agency of the handcrafted in the 21st Century, and raise questions about authenticity, tradition and consumption. Recent manifestations of his work include co-organising a Super8 film festival on the Aran Islands, creating an ‘invented tradition’ for a small village in east Kerry as a public art commission and touring his exhibition ‘Folk Fiction’ nationwide. In 2013 he undertakes a number of projects, specifically in Counties Mayo and Kilkenny and in St. Petersberg in Russia. IKEA Churn, Gareth Kennedy
IDEATE Festival 2013 / Design Intelligence IDEATE Festival 2013 / Workshops with designCore & Innocrafts Drop-In Social Crochet Haptic Modelling Since 2011, Kilkenny County Council Arts Workshop – modelling Office has initiated a series of participatory art projects exploring wool, working with with digital clay intergenerational communities, groups and Haptic Modelling is three-dimensional digital individuals in diverse activities from sheep- modelling that allows touch-sensor feedback shearing to yarn-bombing. Led by artist to create models much more quickly than Deirdre Harte, this year’s participants would would be possible using traditional modelling like to invite you to drop in and re-learn the art techniques. This is an introductory workshop of crochet in company – suitable for all ages to demonstrate how one can create finished and abilities. pieces from initial pencil sketch to object ready for production using the system. It will include Friday 5th & Saturday 6th July a hands-on opportunity for participants to try it 11.00 am – 6.00 pm out, and a question and answers session. Courtyard Gallery 2, Castle Yard Workshop facilitator; David De Courcy, designCORE David is a product designer with specific expertise in design innovation and new product development, focusing on rapid manufacturing and prototyping. David’s role in designCORE is collaboration with industry (SME’s) though new product Solidworks Workshop development and research. He is currently involved in This is an introductory workshop to Solidworks development of the industry-facing research capacity of designCORE through existing initiatives and engaging with for makers and artists who are interested in new opportunities. developing and/or presenting their work in designCORE is the Centre of Research and Enterprise in either 2D or 3D format. Solidworks is a features- Industrial Design and Product Innovation at Institute of Technology, Carlow. designCORE functions as a collegiate based computer-aided design programme that group of creative three dimensional designers, creating multiple generates a 3-dimensional solid model of the group dynamics depending on research focus and opportunities. object. This model can then be used to prepare Alongside eight Industrial Designers and one Graphic Designer, designCORE utilises a research assistant, post graduate photo-realistic renderings, technical drawings researchers, industry expertise, cross disciplinary groups and and file formats for rapid prototyping or additive internationally-recognised collaborative partners. At all times manufacturing processes. designCORE endeavours to offer a supportive creative research environment for clients that wish to engage in applied design Workshop facilitator; Bryan Leech, designCORE research and identify the opportunities that design research Bryan is a lecturer and researcher in Product Design at offers their company. designCORE in IT Carlow. He has extensive industry experience both in Ireland and overseas, working with both small Friday 5th July indigenous SMEs and large multinational companies. He has a particular interest in additive manufacturing technologies and 2.30 pm – 5.00 pm their potential for assisting industrial, craft and artistic sectors Parade Tower, Kilkenny Castle in research, design development and production. €8 / Limited Spaces – Booking Essential
Friday 5th July 9.40 am – 12.40 pm Pembroke Business Innovation Centre 11 Patrick Street €8 / Limited Spaces – Booking Essential
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IDEATE Festival 2013 / Workshops with designCore & Innocrafts Bookings and registration Packaging Design Book in advance A design ideation, refinement and prototyping e: [email protected] workshop. This workshop will commence with t: + 353 (0)56 779 6147 case studies of unique and brilliant packaging designs and concepts. The participants will then be given a design brief to produce product packaging and led through an accelerated design process, from concept generation and ideation, through mock-up modelling and design refinement and detailing, culminating with each person presenting a final concept and prototype of their packaging design. The objective of the workshop is to give participants an indepth experience of the design process from beginning to end, with the added benefit of enhancing awareness of the efficacy of great packaging.
Workshop facilitator; Jordan Ralph Jordan worked as an industrial designer in two major international design studios – AiAiAi and KiBiSi, both based in Copenhagen – as a designer and consultant, translating design ideas into successful products. His previous clients during this time included Apple, Coolhunting, Dazed digital, Louis Poulsen, Holmris, Bang & Olufsen, One Nordic, Hay and Tradition to name a few. He currently works as a freelance design consultant based in Dublin and is a Crafts Council of Ireland Design Mentor.
Saturday 6th July 10.00 am – 4.00 pm Pembroke Hotel, Patrick Street €15 / Limited Spaces – Booking Essential
Brain Gym Just like our muscles, our brains perform better with exercise. Learn some simple techniques to stimulate your creativity and problem-solving abilities. Fun and free!
Workshop facilitator; Ann Mulrooney, National Craft Gallery Ann studied fine art in the Crawford College of Art, Cork, and the Royal College of Art, London. She exhibited widely and received numerous awards for her work, including the Cicilitira Prize for Sculpture (RCA, UK, 2002) and the Deutsche Bank Pyramid Award for Fine Art (UK, 2003). She worked as a freelance curator in Ireland and the UK before joining the Crafts Council of Ireland in 2008 to run the National Craft Gallery. She has been a lecturer, external assessor and frequent contributor to cultural publications and programmes including The View (RTE television, Irl), Ceramics; Art and Perception (USA) and the Irish Arts Review (Irl).
Saturday 6th July 2.00 – 3.00 pm Studio, Castle Yard Free Event, drop in
IDEATE Festival 2013 / Workshops with designCore & Innocrafts IDEATE Festival 2013 / Workshops with designCore & Innocrafts IDEATE Festival Garden Wrap Party … Sounds of System Breakdown followed by The Kilo 1977
Saturday 6th July Dublin-based three piece, Sounds Of System Breakdown, 9.00 pm have been favourably compared to LCD Soundsystem, Billy Byrne’s Bar, John Street Talking Heads, Soulwax and Depeche Mode, with their Free Event, drop in eponymous debut album being described as “superior electropop” (Jim Carroll, Irish Times) and “a meticulously- assembled master-class in electro post punk” (Hot Press). 2013 sees the launch of Nomad, their follow-up album, which blurs their sound between dance culture and guitar dynamics, creating an intoxicating and all-encompassing album. Nomad was recorded “on the side of a mountain” on Sheep’s Head in West Cork last April and produced by Rob Kirwan, who has previously produced, mixed or engineered albums for U2, PJ Harvey, Soulwax, The Horrors and Editors. Expect a high-octane fusion of intelligent beats and infectious melodies.
Live Art Draw-Off … Mick Minogue v Cartoon Saloon
Friday 5th July Two of Kilkenny’s most talented image generators go 9.00 pm head-to-head in a live art drawing battle, armed only with Pembroke Hotel, Patrick Street markers and ingenuity. Come and cheer them on, to help €5 / Tickets available on door 24judges pick a winner between crafty artists Mick Minogue and Steve McCarthy, or the multi-talented international tag-team of animators and illustrators from Cartoon Saloon. Mick Minogue “I kind of imagine it to be like the end of Braveheart, only with pens and paint. I will walk in to meet my allies and fellow artists and before I know it I will be laying on my back, covered in ink, screaming “FREEEEDOM!!!” It will be one of the greatest, most inkiest doodle battles in all seven kingdoms.”
Paul Young “I see it more as a duet than a duel; we are lovers, not fighters in Cartoon Saloon, and we will certainly approach this wonderful meeting of artistic minds in that spirit of oneness, enlightenment and connection that only Art can so beautifully illuminate in our world… But have no doubt, if the upstart Minogue and the turncoat McCarthy want to get it on – oh my, we shall take it to them! WE SHALL BRING IT! WE SHALL BRING IT This event is kindly sponsored by OOOON!!!” the Pembroke Hotel
IDEATE Festival 2013 / Live Perfromance and Events Creative City City wide Exhibitions, Events and Film Friday 5th and Saturday 6th July Creative City … In an act of unprecedented generousity, throughout the festival, creatives based in or from Kilkenny are generously donating their time to share their experience and practice in a free talk series designed to inspire.
Chris Heltzel Mel O’Rourke Are old methods relevant to An agency’s perspective modern design? Originally from Kilkenny, Mel studied and worked Chris took over the reins of an almost half- in graphic design in London before moving to century old business from his father, running Dublin and starting Creative Inc design & brand and further developing Rudolf Heltzel, one of consultancy in 1996. Under her direction, the the leading ‘old-school’ contemporary jewellery agency has won numerous awards both nationally ateliers. He trained at the Crafts Council of Ireland and internationally, including a total of 9 Institute of Jewellery and Goldsmithing Skills and Design Creative Advertising and Design Bells, 16 Institute Course, subsequently in various goldsmithing and of Designers in Ireland Awards including the silversmithing establishments on both sides of the Grand Prix in 2009, and a Silver at the Fedrigoni Atlantic and in Continental Europe, and finally for Standard of Excellence in Design awards. Her work many years in the Rudolf Heltzel workshop. is featured in many international design books and publications, most recently in the new Michael Friday 5th July, 1.00 pm Evamy tome, Logotype. In 2009 Mel received the Rudolf Heltzel, Patrick Street Gold Award at the European Design Awards held in Zurich for her Creative Direction on The LAB Book.
Anna O’Sullivan Friday 5th July, 4.40 pm Trajectories Butler Gallery, Kilkenny Castle (or ‘what I did26 this summer’) Anna is the Director and Chief Curator of the Butler Daniela Cardillo Gallery, in Kilkenny. Prior to joining there in 2005, Enigmatic encounters with the She spent over twenty years in New York, first natural world — engaging the as Performance Curator at the avant-garde arts realms of fashion and craft venue Franklin Furnace and then as Director of the Robert Miller Gallery and Danese Gallery. She has Daniela graduated from the National College of worked with many internationally-renowned artists Art & Design, Dublin with a BA in 2011. Since then, and estates to realise projects and exhibitions her work has gained her followers from all across including Eva Hesse and Patti Smith at the Robert the globe, she has been featured in press such as Miller Gallery, and Hans Op de Beeck, Louise Stylist Magazine and U, and has been selected for Bourgeois, Werner Herzog, Tony O’Malley, Jeanne the World Craft Council European Applied Arts Silverthorne and Eve Sussman at the Butler Gallery, Catalogue 2012. Awards to date include: World Kilkenny. Anna graduated from NCAD, Dublin and Craft Council European Young Talent Award the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent 2012, Guild of Jewellery Designers UK Gold Study Program in New York. She is Commissioner Membership Award 2011, and a Crafts Council of and Curator of the Pavilion of Ireland at the 55th Ireland Future Makers Award, 2011. International Art Exhibition – La Biennale de Venezia in 2013. Friday 5th July, 5.20 pm Wishingbone Gallery, The Parade Friday 5th July, 4.00 pm Butler Gallery, Kilkenny Castle
IDEATE Festival 2013 / Creative City Eimear Conyard Tomm Moore Material collaboration The art of collaboration
Eimear Conyard graduated from the National Tomm is co-Founder and Creative Director of College of Art and Design, Dublin with a BDes Cartoon Saloon, founded in 1999 with Paul in 1995, and from the Glasgow School of Art, Young while studying animation at Ballyfermot Scotland, with a MDes in 1999. She exhibits Senior College, Dublin. Over the company’s widely internationally, with recent exhibitions history, he has worked as Director, Art Director, including LOOT, Museum of Arts and Design, Storyboarder, Animator and Illustrator on a range New York, and Museum of Art and Design Craft of projects from commercials to service work for Show, Philidelphia, USA, where she received the feature films and TV series, as well as a number Best International Exhibitor Award. She currently of short film projects. Tomm completed his first runs the Crafts Council of Ireland’s Jewellery feature film The Secret of Kells (Best Animated and Goldsmithing Skills and Design Course and Feature Nominee: Academy Awards ® 2011) and is prior to this lectured at the School of Jewellery, currently directing his new feature film The Song Birmingham City University, UK and the Nova of the Sea which is due for release in 2014. Scotia College of Art and Design, Canada. Saturday 6th July, 12.20 pm Friday 5th July, 6.15 pm Studio, Castle Yard CCoI Jewellery School, Castle Yard Ross Stewart Mary Butler The organic and the machine How am I going to do that? Ross combines a career as a painter, illustrator Mary Butler is currently Arts Officer with Kilkenny and Visual Development artist for animation, County Council and an artist and maker. She based in Kilkenny. He studied Classical Animation has worked in the creative sector for a number but has moved towards background design and of years facilitating, curating and managing a conceptual art since then, whilst also painting diverse range of projects including visual arts, and exhibiting his own personal artwork for over theatre, music, literature and multi-disciplinary 15 years. He has recently worked on two Oscar- events. She manages to combine her working nominated feature films, as Art Director on The Mick Minogue life with her artistic practice, which fluctuates Secret of Kells and Main Conceptual Artist on between printmaking, textiles and site-specific ParaNorman. He has exhibited widely nationally installations using non-traditional materials. Over and works freelance in illustration, design and the years she has tended to work within the realm visual development for clients internationally. of the everyday world reacting to people, places and domestic and public environments, involving Saturday 6th July, 1.00 pm people in their past and provoking memories. Studio, Castle Yard Repetition and obsession feature highly in the execution of all of her ideas. Milo Fitzgerald Saturday 6th July, 11.00 am Never underestimate the Courtyard Gallery 2, Castle Yard element of surprise
Milo has worked in the design field for nearly 30 John Cleere years. In the past he co-owned a furniture manu- Ross Stewart Sticky business; combining the facturing company with its own retail store and economic and creative worlds design studio, designing a full range of domestic and contract furniture. Presently he is a partner It’s no accident that Red Lemonade is based in Castle in the retail store Gorgeous, which sources high Yard. As a young boy John suffered from asthma, quality interior products and gift items with a and the frequent doctor surgery visits were a stone’s stylish contemporary remit. They strive to seek throw from the Kilkenny Design Workshops. Not out products of international design credibility, knowing what was going on inside, he related the made from appropriate materials, packaged to building’s copper dome to St. Paul’s Cathedral in entice and at price points that sell. He is currently London which he had seen on the opening credits a Crafts Council of Ireland Design Mentor. for Thames TV children’s programmes. From this sticky image grew Red Lemonade, which provides digital and print services to clients ranging from Saturday 6th July, 3.00 pm market leaders to small businesses. His client list Gorgeous, John Street includes the BT River of Music as part of the London 2012 Olympics, Serious Producers in London, Assembly at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and not forgetting hometown festivals, The Sky Cat Laughs and Kilkenomics – but this is the first time John has appeared in a festival!
Saturday 6th July, 11.40 am Red Lemonade Studio, Castle Yard
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Eimear Conyard Jewellery is not Merely Adornment
Naoise Nunn Rosie Lynch Always be scheming: the risks and Dig where you stand rewards of the business of show Rosie is a co-founder of Commonage, a community- Naoise is Artistic Director of the Sky Cat Laughs based organisation in Callan, Co. Kilkenny, which Comedy Festival and Programme Director of the provides a critical platform for contemporary art Kilkenomics festival of economics, both based in and architecture practice in the public realm. From Kilkenny city. He has also run the Mindfield spoken 2005 until 2007 she worked with Ard Bia Gallery in word arena at the Electric Picnic festival since Galway and subsequently devised their pilot year 2006. He founded the Leviathan political cabaret artist-in-residence programme in Berlin. Recent series of events in 2003 which brought together in independent curatorial projects include ‘Unbuilding’ conversation and entertainment, people as diverse (2010), co-curated with Eilís Lavelle and Clíodhna as Bob Geldof, Naomi Klein, Ronnie Drew, Alastair Shaffrey; and ‘Dig where you stand’ (2012,) a year Campbell, Peter Mandelson, Jon Snow, Dara Ó long residency in South Tipperary co-curated with Briain, Florence Welsh, Miriam O’Callaghan and Dr. Eilís Lavelle and Sarah Lincoln which investigated Steve Myers (the man who runs the Large Hadron spaces of potential between text, exhibition and Collider at CERN). In the past he has managed the place. Rosie grew up in Camphill Community Aprés Match comedy trio; produced I, Keano, the Ballytobin, Co. Kilkenny. musical; imported Absinthe; and worked in Leinster House as a parliamentary reporter. Saturday 6th July, 6.20 pm Saturday 6th28 July, 5.00 pm Brewery Corner, Irishtown Brewery Corner, Irishtown Mick Minogue Nostalgia – the poor Ken Maguire, Alan Slattery and man’s inspiration John Morton Crossing paths: mixing media Mick Minogue is a Kilkenny-born, Dublin-based crafter, maker and creator of all manner of tactile Fusing the screen, the web and the stage has its works of art. His work is fueled by a wild imagina- challenges but three Kilkenny companies have tion, and a highly intuitive sense of nostalgia been doing just that for over five years now. The that makes his work instantly resonate. A natural paths of The Devious Theatre Company, Event tinkerer, Mick’s pieces wear their hearts on their Media and Mycrofilms continue to intertwine with sleeves, and the human touch is a vital element Ken McGuire, John Morton and Alan Slattery in every work he makes. Using wit, humour and a combining backgrounds in digital design, theatre healthy slice of pop culture, Mick creates work that and film to enhance each others’ creative services. makes you want to collect everything he does. * This talk looks at how those paths continue to *note from Mick – I couldn’t write a bio without using cross and how working together and sharing the words ‘muscles’, ‘alpha male’ and ‘Thunder Road’ resources can open more creative doors and so I had to ask Steve McCarthy to do it for me… opportunities. Saturday 6th July, 5.40 pm Saturday 6th July, 7pm Brewery Corner, Irishtown Brewery Corner, Irishtown
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Living with Design, Claire-Anne O’Brien
IDEATE Festival 2013 / Creative City Exhibitions Creative City Exhibitions … Exploring designing, making and thinking, throughout Kilkenny City
Making Things Better Pallet to Product
Design is always about making things better – The PALLET to PRODUCT Design Challenge even when the starting point is standing on invited designers, makers and dreamers to create the shoulders of giants. Designgoat and Derek an innovative new product from a discarded Wilson each selected an inspirational object wooden pallet. Submissions could be to any from A History of Ireland in 100 Objects as a spur scale and involve an assortment of manipulations. to create. Featuring trials, errors, experiments The outcome of the challenge is an exhibition and prototypes, this exhibition reveals the of selected finalists showcasing great design relationships between object, inspiration and capabilities and excellent use of craft skills. The design. (A History of Ireland in 100 Objects is a exhibition will run over the 2 days of the festival project of the National Museum of Ireland, The and exhibitors will be in-house on Saturday Irish Times and the Royal Irish Academy) July 6th to talk about the process of creating innovative objects from unexpected materials. 24th May – 9th July 10.00 am – 5.30 pm daily Friday 5th & Saturday 6th July National Craft Gallery 1, Castle Yard 10.00 am – 6.00 pm daily Rothe House, Parliament Street Living With Design The Secret of Kells This exhibition describes the relationship between designers and the everyday objects that inspire The Secret of Kells is an exhibition of limited- them. Captured in portrait form by photographer edition art prints of iconic scenes from this Lois Crichton, 19 Irish designers including Patrick critically-acclaimed animated feature film by Scott, Paul Costelloe and Liz Nilsson, explain their Kilkenny’s Cartoon Saloon. Directed by Tomm fascinations with objects ranging from a feather Moore and Art Directed by Ross Stewart, the duster to a slide rule. The exhibition was curated film launched at the 59th Berlin International by Rosemary Ryan of Malthouse Design Centre. Film Festival and went on to win numerous international awards including Audience Awards 24th May – 9th July at the Annecy International Animated Film 10.00 am – 5.30 pm daily Festival and Edinburgh International Film Festival (both 2009), Best Animation Award at the 7th National Craft Gallery 2, Castle Yard Irish Film and Television Awards (2010), the European Animated Feature Award at the British Animation Awards (2010) plus a nomination for Best Animated Feature Film at the 82nd Academy Awards. Friday 5th & Saturday 6th July 10.00 am – 6.00 pm daily Studio, Castle Yard
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The Principles of Design Three Threads Original drawings by Rudolf Heltzel Since 2011 Kilkenny County Council Arts Office Rudolf Heltzel set up and initially ran the Metal in partnership with the Community and Culture and Silversmithing Department at the Kilkenny Department, has organised a series of exciting Design Workshops. In 1968 he decided to make participatory art projects — Three Bags Full; Born Ireland his permanent home and established the to Knit and Making Space. bespoke jewellery company Rudolf Heltzel in Kilkenny. He has relentlessly continued to explore The projects have drawn together individuals and push the boundaries of hand-made modern and groups across the community and across jewellery design, from his work in the KDW to the the generations, fostering community cohesion present day. This exhibition at 10 Patrick Street and exchanges that last far beyond the life of places some of his very early designs, worn, loved the projects. Participants have shorn sheep, and sold today, beside his most recent bespoke watched the fleece being processed and used jewellery creations. the wool for felting; they have knitted, yarn bombed, crocheted, drank tea, chatted, made Friday 5th & Saturday 6th July a documentary — and this year they will make a three-dimensional space! Three Threads offers 9.30 am – 5.30 pm daily* us an inspirational glimpse into previous projects Rudolf Heltzel, Patrick Street and a flavour of current work in progress — plus *closed for lunch 1.00 – 2.00 pm an opportunity to brush up on our crochet skills with free drop-in workshops over the two days of the festival.
Design in Practice Friday 5th July, 11 am – 7 pm Saturday 6th July, 11 am – 6 pm A collection of watches designed by 4th Year Industrial Design students at IT Carlow to Courtyard Gallery 2, Castle Yard celebrate one hundred years of British design32 and innovation. Students were required to research, design and develop proposals for a Fennelly’s presents ‘Fox in Town’ wristwatch inspired by a classic British design Fennelly’s is a contemporary space in Callan, Co. and/or engineering innovation from the 20th Kilkenny, devised and curated by Etaoin Holahan. Century. All the watches were designed around It presents an eclectic, engaging and experimental standard Soprod SA watch movements and case mix of installations, interventions, screenings, components were manufactured using traditional spoken word, culinary adventures, theatre, live watch making techniques or appropriate additive music, conversations and more. For the IDEATE manufacturing technologies. festival, it is decamping to Kilkenny for one night only. Inspired by this temporary displacement, Friday 5th & Saturday 6th July Fox in Town will centre around notions of how 10.00 am – 6.00 pm daily otherness is represented as an extension of the Pembroke Hotel, Patrick Street self. Involving interactive performance leading to the creation of a series of masks and puppets by artist Steve Aylin, and a selection of screenings mined from popular culture that utilise puppetry and masks outside their normative form — expect the unexpected! Friday 5th July, 5.00 pm – 10.00 pm Cleere’s Theatre, Parliament Street
IDEATE Festival 2013 / Creative City on Screen Creative City on Screen … an evening of animation and short films from some of Kilkenny’s rich film-making talent, supported by Billy Byrne’s Bar
Friday 5th July 5.00 pm – 8.00 pm Billy Byrnes, John Street Free Event, drop in Holidays Cormac Cavanagh (2011, 23 mins)
A black comedy drama about a lonely girl who befriends a corpse in an attempt to understand life, death and loss.
Cormac Cavanagh received an MA in Film from DCU in 2005 and has since worked in the industry Going to war over a banana truck in Dublin and now Kilkenny. His work has been Andrew Pike (2012, 05:30 mins) shortlisted for the RTE/Galway Film Centre Short Film Award and the Film Offaly/Filmbase Short An animation reflecting the stupidity of war. Film Award. Holidays was screened at the Corona Having been a gardener for many years, Andrew Cork Film Festival in 2011. Pike studied art at Ormonde College, Kilkenny before becoming one of the first artists to join the KCAT Studio in Callan. Since then he has exhibited Eric and travelled extensively worldwide. Though most Paul Mahon (2011, 10.00 mins) well known for his painting, Andrew has award- winning animations to his credit. A Puppeteer’s love story
Old Fangs Storm in a Teacup Directed by Adrien Merigeau for by Paul Mahon (2011, 11.41 mins) Cartoon Saloon (2009, 12mins) A musical tale of a melancholy inventor leaving his The story of a young wolf who decides to confront aerial abode and heading earthbound. his father who he has not seen in a long time. Paul Mahon (aka Gepetto) is a multidisciplinary filmmaker, musician & visual artist from Kilkenny. His award-winning film work has been screened at Cúilín Dualach a number of festivals including the 2012 Mercedes Directed by Nora Twomey for Benz Fashion Festival Sydney and the Canadian Cartoon Saloon (2010, 12mins) International Film Festival. He is a long time Cúilín Dualach lives in a small town in the west of collaborator with fellow Kilkenny musician RSAG, Ireland. He strives to fit in as best he can but that creating live visuals which have travelled from can be difficult when your head is on backwards! London to New York, RTE to SXSW festival, Texas.
From Darkness Directed by Nora Twomey for Cartoon Saloon (2008, 8.5 mins)
A lonely fisherman drifts into haunted waters in search of food and finds much more than he bargained for. Based on an Inuit folktale Cartoon Saloon began as an informal partnership initiated by Paul Young and Tomm Moore in Kilkenny in 1999 and has since grown into a multi-award winning animation and illustration design studio. The studio works with many diverse international clients such as Disney, BBC and Cartoon Network and was recently nominated for an Academy Award® for Best Animated Feature film.
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Friday 5th July 5.00 pm – 8.00 pm Billy Byrnes, John Street Free Event, drop in
Vultures The External World Directed by Alan Slattery for David O’Reilly (2011, 17:00 mins) Mycrofilms(17 mins each) A boy learns to play piano Vultures is a webcom about dicks... private dicks. Set up by Alan Slattery and John Morton in 2006, Mycrofilms is film and video production company Please Say Something based in Kilkenny. Two series and twelve episodes David O’Reilly (2009, 10:00 mins) of Vultures were made between 2007 and 2012 in A troubled relationship between a Cat & Mouse Kilkenny. The series was part of BeActive Media’s Digital Comedy Lab and has frequently been in the Top 10 of Irish video podcasts on iTunes ????? David O’Reilly (2009, 1:00 mins)
???? ??? ??? ??? ?? ? ???? ? Kilkenny-born David O’Reilly lives and works in Los Angeles, California. His short film, Please Say Something, was awarded the Golden Bear at the 2009 Berlin International Film Festival. His latest short film, The External World, premiered at the 67th Venice Film Festival and the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, and has since won over forty awards including an Irish Film and Television Award for Best Animation. In 2011 he received the World Cultural Council Leonardo Da Vinci Award for 34contribution to the field of Animation.
IDEATE Festival 201 / Creative City on Screen Creative City on Screen … a day of films exploring craft, design and creativity, supported by the Set Theatre Saturday 6th July 11.30 am – 4.00 pm Set Theatre, John Street Free Event, drop in
12.00 pm 2.20 pm Design & Thinking Hands – Hurl Making Directed by Mu-Ming Tsai and by David and Sally Shaw-Smith Pei-Yun Lai (2011, 74 mins) (1983, 28 mins)
Exploring the impact design thinking has on the David and Sally Shaw-Smith made Hands, a world, this Kickstarter-funded documentary unique, multi-award winning series of thirty-seven features designers, businessmen and social documentaries on Irish crafts for Irish television change-makers discussing this ever-changing (RTÉ), capturing the final years of traditional rural school of thought. Among them: laptop inventor and urban life in Ireland during the seventies and and IDEO co-founder Bill Moggridge; Smart eighties. This episode features hurl-making in Design co-founder Dan Formosa and AIGA CEO Kilkenny, with master craftsman Ramie Dowling Ric Grefe. creating a hurl that makes it to the All Ireland hurling final at Croke Park in Dublin – no change there then! 1.20 pm Irish Folk Furniture Directed by Tony Donoghue and 3.00 pm produced by Cathal Black Handmade Nation (2012, 8.19 mins) by Faythe Levine (2009, 65 mins)
In this animated documentary, 16 pieces of Artist and curator Faythe Levine traveled to traditional folk furniture are repaired, re-loved and 15 cities and covered more than 19,000 miles returned home. Winner of Best Animated Film, to interview artists, crafters, makers, curators Sundance Film Festival 2013. and community members to document the new grassroots wave of DIY art, craft and design. The film captures an activist subculture where ethics, 1.40 pm community and creativity flourish. Those featured IKEA Butter Churn for include Jenny Hart, whose Sublime Stitching has Gneeveguilla, Co. Kerry revolutionized the embroidery industry; Nikki by Gareth Kennedy (2011, 32 mins) McClure who sells thousands of her cut-paper wall calendars annually; and Stephanie Syjuco, who Over the Summer of 2011, artist Gareth Kennedy manufactures clothing under the tag line “Because worked with the people of Gneeveguilla to develop Sweatshops Suck” and enact an invented tradition for the village. This involved re-purposing IKEA products to create a butter churn and firkin, plus a ceremonial butter-pat production and burial parade. The project, filmed on Super8, at once pays tribute to David and Sally Shaw Smith’s seminal Hands series of films,as well as co-opting and transgressing the aesthetic dominance of global giant IKEA. Its intent is to serve as a celebration of the continuity of people and place in spite of hard economic times.
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Acknowledgements
Festival Producer Ideate festival had been Ann Mulrooney devised and produced by the National Craft Gallery and the Project Manager Crafts Council of Ireland. Evelyn McNamara It has received funding from the IPB Gathering Creative Team Ireland Fund 2013, and received programme Louise Allen, Catherine Phibbs, funding via INNOCRAFTS under the INTERREG IVC Programme. It has been generously sponsored Susan Holland, Muireann Charleton, by AIB, the Pembroke Hotel and Business Evelyn McNamara, Ann Mulrooney, Innovation Centre, by Lemongrass restaurant and with support from Brian Byrne, by the Brewery Corner. It has partnered with designCORE at Institute of Technology, Carlow, Claire Quigley and Ciara Gannon the Civic Works and Kilkenny County Council Arts Office in delivering programme elements. It has AV and Documentation been supported with incredible generosity of spirit Darragh Byrne by ALL the participants and venues who have contributed time, energy and talent to the making PR of this festival and we would particularly like to Christine Monk thank Cultivate and Cloughjordan Eco Village; Donal O’Brien and Kilkenny Civic Trust; Brian Festival Identity and Tyrrell, Denis Malone and Kilkenny Borough and County Councils; Pivot Dublin; Cartoon Saloon; Communications Rudolf Heltzel’s; Indigo and Cloth; Atelier David an Atelier Project Smith; Commonage; Billy Byrne’s; the Set Theatre; www.atelier.ie Cleere’s; Butler Gallery; Wishingbone Gallery; Gorgeous; National Irish Visual Arts Library Print (NIVAL); Willie Byrne; Ali Grehan; Dr. Margaret Wasz; Anthony Kelly; Bryan Leech; David de generously supported by Courcey; Tara Whelan; Dave Head; Garrett Plus Print, Dublin Pickett; David Smith; Gareth Kennedy; Malcolm www.plusprint.ie Noonan; Chris Heltzel; Daniela Cardillo; Eimear Conyard; Anna O’Sullivan; Mel O’Rourke; Mary Butler; John Cleere; Tomm Moore; Ross Stewart; Milo Fitzgerald; Naoise Nunn; Ken Maguire; John Morton; Alan Slattery; Mick Minogue; Rosie Lynch; Etaoin Holohan; Steve Aylin; Amanda Horan, Jackie Murphy and Deirdre O’Brien of Fáilte Ireland; Rosemary Collier; Roisin McQuillan; Paul Young; Una Walker; Faythe Levine, Melissa Huang; Sally and David Shaw-Smith; Aisling Hayes – and of course the pioneers and visionaries who made up the Kilkenny Design Workshops, and the craftspeople, artists and creatives who have made Kilkenny the vibrant and creative place that it is today. We are standing on the shoulders of giants.
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