This year’s exhibition is different. As graduates, we have had to adapt to new and challenging circumstances. Moving to an online environment, we had to think of alternate ways to make our Graduate Exhibition come to life. In its translation into a digital space, the very real and tactile nature of the work we produce is obscured. In our daily lives, there is a sense of human and material touch which is equally obscured. Working from home, graduates are in a new environment. Their creative output extends into their domestic lives as their studies come to a close. It is the parallel between the materiality of our work and the absence of the sense touch that frames this year’s Graduate Exhibition.

This website presents the work of 102 graduating students from the TU Dublin School of Creative Arts, School of Mechanical and Design Engineering and School of Media. The exhibition represents the culmination of years of full-time study and gives our students the opportunity to showcase the results of their imagination, hard work, and creative skills.

Identity by Joana Ferreira, Hugh Kavanagh, Eva Martin, Ben Nagle.

TU Dublin School of Creative Arts
TU Dublin School of Mechanical and Design Engineering
TU Dublin School of Media

Contemporary Visual Culture

Sadbh Scully
Keeping Dublin Lit: A brief history of Dublin’s public lighting

What impact does street lighting have on the overall landscape of Dublin? What stories can be told through the public street lighting in Dublin city?

sadbhscully@gmail.com

Keeping Dublin Lit: A brief history of Dublin’s public lighting

This presentation featured in a semi-public event, Seeing in The Dark, examining the various public lighting systems and examples that can be seen all across Dublin, predominantly the city. The event was organised by final year Contemporary Visual Culture students as a part of the Talking Points module. From candlelight to gaslight and to the current electric street lights, different aspects and standpoints of Dublin’s history can be told by looking at the lights we see on the streets every day. These changes will be discussed, while also including the current state of public street lighting in Dublin and what lies ahead. The impact lighting has on the overall character of the city and the effect on the visual landscape will also be mentioned. Each different example presented will reveal a different aspect of Dublin city’s rich street lighting heritage. Throughout this piece, I will reveal and clearly illustrate the role street lighting plays on the essence and character of the city.

The methodology used for this thesis will be information collected from online archives, interviews, newspapers, and published reports. The research questions will aid in leading this research.