Dublin School of Creative Arts

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

Product Design

Aoife Morrissey
Kapiti

Kapiti is an underwater puzzle game that promotes teamwork and low impact physical activity. This game has no emphasis on the condition of arthritis whatsoever. However, arthritis in children is what initiated the idea of Kapiti. The desire is to create a universal design that would not make the children with arthritis stand out but rather mask their condition by creating a game with an even playing field. With sports such as football or basketball, the child with arthritis might need to take regular breaks throughout the game. Hard impact on their joints while playing the sport makes it uncomfortable for them to play. Other children tend to notice this and question them over why they have to stop playing.