News
Con Kennedy Appointed to Validation Panel at Griffith College Dublin
28th September 2021
Con Kennedy was appointed to the Griffith College Dublin's Bachelor of Arts (Hons) Graphic Communication Design review panel.
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Designing A Module In Entrepreneurship For Product Design Students
30th April 2021
Authors: PJ White, IT Carlow and Con Kennedy, TU Dublin.
Creative problem-solving has been identified as one of the most critical future-proof skills we can develop in our society. When educating future designers, entrepreneurship skills are now considered essential; however, designers find it difficult to establish themselves as entrepreneurs. Therefore, graduate designers increasingly need these skills to complement their creative abilities. This paper offers information to academic institutions looking to implement entrepreneurship modules in existing design and creative programmes. The paper seeks to understand the entrepreneurship skills required for product design graduates through a case study. Current teaching practice is described, and interviews and co-design sessions with relevant stakeholders are conducted to inform future entrepreneurship education for product design students. From these findings, a module descriptor entitled ‘Entrepreneurship for Designers’ was created for an existing programme and delivered through both practice and theory. This module aims to provide an understanding of the entrepreneurship process and offer students the confidence to pursue design-related ventures post-graduation.
Journal: Sage: Industry & Higher Education, Volume 36, Issue 2.
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Con Kennedy appointed an internal reviewer for the BA in Early Childhood Education
22nd February 2021
Con Kennedy was appointed internal educational reviewer for the BA (Hons) in Early Childhood Education at the TU Dublin School of Social Sciences, Law and Education.
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Iterations Issue 8 Published
31st January 2020
Issue eight of Iterations: Journal and Practice Review has just been published. Con Kennedy is the Design Editor, Reviewer and Co-Founder.
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TU Dublin 10th Annual Graduate Research Symposium
15th November 2019
Con Kennedy will present his "Design as Entrepreneurship: Towards a Design-Specific Entrepreneurship Framework" research, a poster and oral presentation, TU Dublin 10th Annual Graduate Research Symposium, November 2019.
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Con Kennedy appointed Visiting Professor to the Gengdan Academy of Design at Beijing University of Technology
15th April 2019
Con Kennedy was appointed visiting international professor of design and commenced a two-week academic visit to the Gengdan Institute, part of the Beijing University of Technology, China. While in Beijing, Con will deliver a five-credit module to second-year students on the BA in Visual Communication Design and participate in several cultural exchanges.
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Iterations Issue 7 Published
1st December 2018
Issue seven of Iterations: Journal and Practice Review has just been published. Con Kennedy is the Design Editor, Reviewer and Co-Founder.
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Zig Zag Seat
30th August 2018
Zig Zag Seat is a public realm project designed by Con Kennedy and Barry Sheehan in conjunction with A Playful City and engineer Loscher Moran.
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Design Management Institute: 2018 ADMC Conference
1st August 2018
Con Kennedy will deliver a paper entitled "Creativity’s Risk to Design" at the 21st Design Management Institute: Academic Design Management Conference, Ravensbourne College of Art, London, UK.
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Design Research Society Conference
25th June 2018
Con Kennedy will deliver a paper on a proposed Design Entrepreneurship Framework at the Design Research Society Conference & PhD By Design, University of Limerick, Limerick, 25th-28th June 2018.
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