Marilyn Lennon completed her PhD at the Interaction Design Centre (IDC), an interdisciplinary research centre at the University of Limerick under Prof Liam Bannon in 2007. Her research explored methodologies derived from Art and Design practice which support and facilitate participants in Participatory Design, Co-Design and Collaborative Design sessions.
She has been postgraduate advisor/artist at a number of international events including, the European Academy of Participation Pilot, London '17, The Siena Design Project, (Interaction Design in Public Spaces) Italy, '03 and 04, and the Convivio International Summer Schools, Romania and Sweden '05 and '07 and Split Interactions, Croatia '08. Collaborative projects that she played a leading role on in Sweden '07 and Croatia '08 with artists, designers, postgraduate students was represented as part of a Split University entry and awarded the Grand Prix at the Zagrebacki Salon '09, the highest Croatian award for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture.
OTHER ACTIVITIES
Artist-led Workshops & Fieldtrips
Water Broadcasting Secret Stations, Mapping and Drawing, Skibbereen Arts Festival 2019
Diviner Mapping, Cork, 2019
WayMarkers Mapping Beyond Borders, Fieldtrip, Monaghan Heritage Forum. Heritage Office Monaghan CoCo meeting, Monaghan. 2016
WayMarkers Mapping workshops, Monaghan Nov 2014 - 2016
SpiritStore Inkstorm Poetry Depot Workshops -
Poets Workshops Limerick and Galway 2010
Culture Night Limerick 2010
Made in Temple Bar, Arts Festival, Dublin 2011
Flatlakes Literary and Arts Festival, Monaghan 2011
CATDIG ed2, Arts Festival, Limerick 2011
Culture Night Limerick 2011
Cúirt International Festival of Literature 2011
Summerschool Workshop Leader/Collaborator.
Two-Week Residential Workshops -
Interaction Design in Public Spaces Workshop, University of Split, Croatia. 2007 and 2008
Atelier Leader EU Convivo Workshop in Interaction Design. Bollnas, Sweden 2007
Atelier Leader EU Convivo Workshop in Interaction Design. Timisoara, Romania 2005
Workshop Leader – EU Convivio, Learning Practices in Interaction Design, Limerick, Ireland 2005
Artists Talk
Artists Talks and Panel Discussions Empowering Art. Dance Limerick’s What Next Festival. Limerick City Gallery of Art. 2019
Artist Talk – Some Joined Up Thinking - WayMarkers
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin 2017
Callan Workhouse Union, Kilkenny 2017
Ormston House, Limerick 2017
Uillinn, West Cork Art Centre, Skibbereen 2017
Garter Lane Arts Centre, Waterford 2017
Cumann Information Session: Artist in Community Scheme, Create and Droichead Arts Centre 2016
Artists Talk - Long Distance Walks and Other Pilgrimages, Pathfinders Gathering. The Walking Institute, Deveron Arts, Huntly, Scotland 2015
Artists Talk -Six Memos presents Species of Space, Limerick School of Art & Design, LIT, Ireland 2010
Artists Talk - From Slack Spaces to Creative Cities The National Sculpture Factory for ArtTrail, Cork, Ireland 2009
Conference and Seminar Presentation
Presenter - 'WayMarkers' Galway International Summer School on the Arts and Human Rights. “Belonging”. Exploring the intersection between the arts and human rights. University College Galway, 2015
Presenter - Locating the Gothic Conference 2014 - Threshold Mapping Psychogeography and Visual Culture Panel (Chair – Iain Biggs) Limerick School of Art and Design, Limerick Institute of Technology 2014
Presenter - Future State with Limerick City Gallery of Art and Goldsmiths, University of London, Land │Labour │Capital, Interdisciplinary and Collaborative Symposium, 2013.
Workshop & Artists Talk - Open Engagement 2013, International Conference, Portland, Oregan, USA 2013.
Galway Student Forum Coordinators - Fourth Irish Human Computer Interaction Conference (iHCI 2010) Dublin, Ireland 2010
Presenter – EU Convivio Workshop, Interaction Design in Public Places, Limerick, Ireland 2005
Presenter - Concepts and Methods for Interdisciplinary Research, Cork Institute of Technology 2005
Presenter - "UbiWhat?" - Seminar on Ubiquitous Computing, University of Limerick 2003
Presenter - "Understanding Experience", Design Seminar, University of Limerick 2003
Presenter - Technology Transfer Initiative (TTI) Innovation Club, University of Limerick 2003
Invited Academic Staff
The European Academy of Participation (EAP). http://www.creatisity.org/ The project was financed by the European Union and the Republic of Turkey.
Central Saint Martin's, University of the Arts, London, UK, London 2016
Interaction Design in Public Spaces Workshop, University of Split, Croatia. 2007 and 2008
Siena Design Project, International Interaction Design Competition. University of Siena, Siena, Italy 2004
Siena Design Project, International Interaction Design Competition. University of Siena, Siena, Italy 2003
Patents
M. Lennon, M. Fernstrom, M. Marshall, "A Fluid Monitoring Device", Irish Patent S2000/0951, November 2000 - M. Lennon, M. Fernstrom, M. Marshall, "A device for converting a characteristic of a flowing fluid into electronic signal and a respiratory monitor for monitoring fluid flow", PCT Patent Application, PCT/IE/01/00145, 2001 Certificate of Patent granted by the Irish Patent Office, November 2003
