Dublin School of Creative Arts | A Corrosion of Human Rights

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

Visual Communication

Eva Martin
A Corrosion of Human Rights

'A Corrosion of Human Rights' was inspired by the ‘First Things First Manifesto’ that took place in the early 1960s. Its solution was to focus efforts of design on education and public service tasks that promote the betterment of society. The aim of ‘A Corrosion of Human Rights’ is to educate the reader on the interconnectedness of climate change and issues of social justice. Ultimately, the publication promotes an awareness that the climate crisis is a human rights issue. I want to amplify the voices of grassroots people, who are experiencing the worst effects of climate change.

Environmental activism comes in the form of peaceful protest and social disobedience. I wanted ‘A Corrosion of Human Rights’ to reflect the idea of disobedience through the way the book behaves. It goes against the conventional way a publication reads. The behaviour of the book is repetitive so the reader becomes familiar and understands with ease how to navigate through the book. This design of the publication also gave me the freedom to unfold a message and a body of information over a larger canvas rather than a single page or refined space.

evamartin@outlook.ie Website