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

Ciaran Conlan
Trail

Trail is a device that improves communication between firefighters and officers in a structural fire scenario. It does this by boosting the signal of firefighters 1-watt radios, while also improving the firefighter's environment understanding. Multiple Trail devices would be dropped along the path of the firefighter as they navigate the building, Trail would record zonal temperature around the device and would signal to firefighters if temperatures were unsafe by flashing orange to warn them of increasing temperatures. Firefighters' radios are limited to 1-watt due to rising gases within a fire and the possibility of an explosion if the wattage was higher. This ultimately creates a breakdown in communication between officers outside the building and the firefighter teams inside the building, due to the low signal output of the radio and the signal's ability to penetrate through the building's structure. Trail solves this by creating a trail of devices for the signal to travel along.

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