Queen¡¯s experts to take part in project helping to shape green futures on Rathlin Island
Experts at Queen¡¯s University Belfast are part of a group that have been awarded funding to help shape green futures on Rathlin Island.
After two years of co-design research with Rathlin Island, Northern Ireland’s only inhabited offshore island, the Future Island-Island project is stepping into its second phase with renewed funding and ambition.
The Queen’s experts will collaborate with academics from Ulster University, which is leading the project. They will also work with experts at the Glasgow School of Art, and University of the Arts London.
The project will continue to work with the community and project partners to explore how island-led innovation can inform greener futures locally and globally.
, from the School of Natural and Built Environment at Queen’s and Co-Director of this phase of the project, comments: "We are delighted to have been awarded funding for the next phase of Future Island-Island. This extension gives us the opportunity to build on the creativity and insight of Rathlin’s community and extend those lessons to other coastal and island contexts.
Dr Mulholland adds: "By working together across disciplines, sectors and geographies, we can continue to build knowledge that shapes more sustainable futures for people and place.”
Professor Justin Magee, Director, Future Island-Island; Research Director, Belfast School of Art, says: “We are delighted to have secured extension funding as we continue to lead this important design-led research into phase two. Here, we deepen our commitment and relationship with the community of Rathlin while connecting new coastal and island communities across Irish, Scottish and Nordic locations.”
The project is one of four UK Green Transition Ecosystems, funded through the .
It combines design thinking with community insight to add value to waste, preserve heritage through digital technologies, develop new materials, and reimagine approaches to education and policy-making.
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