NCAD FIELD

I co-lead the Postgraduate Diploma in Art and Ecology through NCAD's Creative Futures Academy, working with students to develop creative ecologically engaged practice. The programme works directly with an urban embedded novel ecology of the NCAD FIELD site. This taskscape acts as an outdoor classroom, a site for nature connection, commoning and a testing site for multi-species futures.

Connecting to the site and its seasonal activity, nature/culture connections are explored and enacted allowing learners to expand their research, creative making and critical thinking skills in meaningful and liveable ways.

A grounding in the social, political, economic and historical issues that frame ecologies of the surroundings site are explored.  Through the Diploma Programme practitioners will expand, develop and question their practices using the NCAD FIELD as a testing site and shared learning space.

The programme supports a range of creative approaches and interdisciplinary art and design practitioners that wish to connect and work in the space of critical ecologies and expanded environments. 

https://creativefuturesacademy.ie/courses/professional-diploma-in-art-and-ecology/

In 2025 we launched a publication co-produced with our learners: https://www.internationaleonline.org/publications/field-guide/