Projects ongoing and in development:

 Carlow Institute of Technology & Design Ireland Skillnet   

• Introduction to Sustainable Design and Innovation course: production and facilitation of 15-week professional certification course (2nd year).
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• Strategic Development, Communications, Network Development and Policy Advisery. Voluntary contribution of time and expertise.
  

• Ongoing collaboration with, and lectures at Kaospilots, a world class 3rd level school for social innovation and entrepreneurism in Aarhus, Denmark. Including 3-day in-residence design tutorial during White Week 2009.  (One student's feedback here... )

• National focus organisation linking the design sector. Consultancy to the Board of Directors on future vision, funding strategies and community organising.

• Co-development of the Dublin Hub a co-working facility for sustainable business start-ups in Dublin Ireland.

Green Party, Ireland: Strategic Policy and Issues Advisory

• “Green New Deal” and sustainable business sector. Consulting on aspects of proposed support for green technologies as a way forward out of recession.

• Lectures at: National University of Ireland, Maynooth (launch new course on sustainable design), Carlow Institute of Technology (produce and facilitate 2nd year of Sustainable Design Innovation course), and National College of Art and Design (24-Hour Design Challenge).

Completed projects:

2009

Qatar Foundation for Education and Culture: the Design Zone

•  2008-2009- Participant on international design team to Master Plan a new community of 4,000 homes based on principles of sustainability, situated on the Arabian Gulf. TEPUI was responsible for the oversight on integration of sustainable technologies and for “desert greening” strategies as well as low carbon design and overall landscape treatment.

Cultivate Sustainable Living Centre. With Ireland’s first and most comprehensive Sustainability Centre.

• Gardening for Abundance: A One Day Organic Food Growing Course

 2008

Design Ireland Skillnet & Carlow Institute of Technology

• Sustainable Design and Innovation: co-development and facilitation of pilot for Ireland’s first professional certification course on the basics of Sustainable Design Innovation.

• Received SEI 1st level Award.

KaosPilot International - International School of New Business Design and Social Innovation

• Ongoing collaboration with, and lectures at Kaospilots, a world class 3rd level school for social innovation and entrepreneurism in Aarhus, Denmark. Including 3-day in-residence during the 2008 pilot of White Week.

• Lectures at Dun Laoghaire Senior College, Ireland (Landscape Design), Dublin Institute of Technology (Living Technologies and Design), Carlow Institute of Technology, and National College of Art and Design (Sustainable Design and Living Systems).

Cultivate Sustainable Living Centre. Ireland’s first and most comprehensive Sustainability Centre; the annual Convergence Festival, an international convocation showcasing and celebrating leading-edge thought and action in sustainability:

• Re-thinking the City Conference: "Food Focused Urban Systems" a lecture on living technologies, food security and urban regeneration.

Dublin Institute of Technology

• Student Green Week: lectures for architecture and engineering students on Living Technologies.

2007

• Green Roof Policy Guide for Dublin. Research and production of policy guidelines for incorporating Green Roofs into the Dublin City Development Plan (2007-2008).

Cultivate Sustainable Living Centre . (2001-2007) Establishment of Ireland’s first and most comprehensive Sustainability  training and resource centre

• Creation and development of Design-related programming for the Centre, including the most successful annual event, Rethinking the City, an urban planning conference focused on sustainability and urban revitalisation.

• Creation, development and mentoring for work experience programme focused on 'communicating sustainability'. More than 100 students trained between 2002-2007.

• Creation and contruction of Teaching Garden, a unique street level roof garden featuring economic plants from around the world. Development of the garden related curriculum, training of international interns in basic Permaculture principles and garden maintenance, and development of the commercial plant nursery aspects of the garden. Production of “garden clinic” events based on Permaculture in the city, home garden design, and trouble-shooting of horticultural problems.