{"id":37,"date":"2012-06-20T11:01:20","date_gmt":"2012-06-20T10:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stakeholderdesign.com\/Test\/?p=37"},"modified":"2019-11-06T12:03:59","modified_gmt":"2019-11-06T12:03:59","slug":"we-made-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stakeholderdesign.com\/about\/we-made-this\/","title":{"rendered":"The best designers in Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Inside a run-down convent in Cork, a community of nuns, Travellers, recent immigrants, ex-offenders, recovering addicts, old and young came together to visualise and prototype a whole raft of future social services. This is what the Irish Examiner made of their story.<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_217\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-217\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stakeholderdesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/080429-Irish-Examiner.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-217\" title=\"We Made This press\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stakeholderdesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/080429-Irish-Examiner-300x295.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"295\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.stakeholderdesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/080429-Irish-Examiner-300x295.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.stakeholderdesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/080429-Irish-Examiner-768x756.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.stakeholderdesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/080429-Irish-Examiner-1024x1009.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.stakeholderdesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/080429-Irish-Examiner-600x591.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.stakeholderdesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/080429-Irish-Examiner.jpg 1664w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-217\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Launching &#8220;We Made This&#8221; in Cork, Ireland<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Nuns have put their faith in a business process used by Nike and Apple to transform their convent into a centre for tackling social problems &#8211; the first of its kind in the country.<\/p>\n<p>The Presentation Order in Cork threw open the doors of its historic Evergreen Street complex last night to unveil details of the remarkable project.<\/p>\n<p>The nuns confirmed they planned to enact some of the most innovative suggestions at their convent, which will be redeveloped as a multi-faith community support centre over the next 12 months.<\/p>\n<p>They invited Travellers, recovering addicts, former inmates and immigrants to work with internationally renowned business design strategist Sean McDougall on the project.<\/p>\n<p>Together, they used design strategies that were used to revolutionise the design of Nike\u2019s trainers and Apple\u2019s iPod to develop their own social services. Some of the projects planned include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>a mental health and nutrition project run by Travellers for Travellers<\/li>\n<li>a project to help reduce tensions between the elderly and teenagers<\/li>\n<li>the development of an art gallery focused on community perceptions of Cork from the views of young people, recent immigrants and the unemployed<\/li>\n<li>and gardening classes and other clubs aimed at supporting integration<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>South Presentation convent was founded in 1775 by Nano Nagle. Her remains are buried within its grounds.<\/p>\n<p>At one time, 50 nuns lived and worked in the community, providing education for the deaf, a refuge for the elderly and meeting spaces. But numbers have dropped to just five.<\/p>\n<p>However, the sisters said there is still a need for direct engagement with the community.<\/p>\n<p>Sister Anne Coffey said more and more services were being created by people who live at a distance from those they are trying to support.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe took a leap, in faith, to show what happens if you put your trust in people to come up with their own solutions,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are so pleased with the outcomes that we will be putting some of the findings into practice straight away.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr McDougall congratulated the nuns for their amazing foresight and commitment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor the first time, ordinary people in Cork have been using the design techniques that led IBM to abandon super-computers in favour of the PC, and established Apple as the coolest company on the planet,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey have shown incredible innovative spirit and proved design techniques can be used to address issues of acute social need in Ireland.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf the state wants better outcomes and better social services, all it has to do is change the way in which it talks to people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr McDougall, from Belfast, is Managing Director of Stakeholder Design, and international innovation agency focused on education and the public services.<\/p>\n<p>He worked previously at the Design Council in London, where he helped to develop the concepts of \u2018user-led\u2019 design and social service innovation.<\/p>\n<p>He also used design to transform the face of education in Britain.<\/p>\n<p>He encouraged the British Government and their school managers to focus more on how good design could improve educational outcomes.<\/p>\n<p>They focused on the design of school furniture and classrooms, on the management and operation of schools, on communication techniques and on lesson length.<\/p>\n<p>He encouraged teachers to work with students to make classrooms and lessons more attractive.<\/p>\n<p>He also works with the Futurelab think tank and with global computer giant Cisco Systems.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>We are presently planning to launch sister projects in six European countries. If you would like to be involved, please get in touch.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Download\u00a0the stage one report:\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.stakeholderdesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/WeMadeThisweb.pdf\">We Made This<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Original article published in the Irish Examiner. Thenks to Des for allowing use of the picture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inside a run-down convent in Cork, a community of nuns, Travellers, recent immigrants, ex-offenders, recovering addicts, old and young came together to visualise and prototype a whole raft of future social services. This is what the Irish Examiner made of their story. 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